The last time the Nets won the draft lottery, it was the first step in a meteoric two-year rise to the NBA Finals.<\/p>\n
The lottery lucky charm who was in the room that day \u2014 former team president Finn Wentworth \u2014 could see the situation play out again on May 10 in Chicago.<\/p>\n
\u201cI totally agree,\u201d Wentworth told Sports+. \u201c[But] I think they don\u2019t need to get the first pick in this draft, it\u2019s so deep.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe league has changed a lot in the last 25 years, where it\u2019s much more of a guard, 3-point-shooting dynamic. And with their draft last year \u2014 which I think is still too early to judge \u2014 they have some players there. If they can get one of the top three picks in this draft, they can coalesce around the guy that\u2019s going to go ahead and become a cornerstone.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The last time the Nets won the draft lottery, it was the first step in a meteoric two-year…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720311,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3767],"tags":[7,670,247,3803,3822,3716,7598,6,12,249,671,3823,12709,66,196],"class_list":["post-720310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn-nets","tag-basketball","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklynnets","tag-inside-the-nets","tag-jason-kidd","tag-kenyon-martin","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft","tag-nba-draft-lottery","tag-nets","tag-post-sports-newsletters","tag-rod-thorn","tag-sports","tag-sports-plus"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116482533216321048","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}