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The college basketball season ended on Monday. Next month the Nets rebuild starts in earnest, with the lottery \u2014 and clarity on just where they\u2019ll be drafting.<\/p>\n
The Nets have five picks in June\u2019s NBA draft \u2014 four first-rounders and their own natural second \u2014 and after the Big Dance, mock drafts have been readjusted and rejiggered based on how the players performed and how the scouts assessed them.<\/p>\n
They\u2019ll change again, based on the draft combine, predraft workouts and of course front office misdirection. <\/p>\n
But in the immediate aftermath of post-Final Four recalibration, some things are clear. <\/p>\n
The most common projection for the Nets\u2019 prized lottery selection is either Jeremiah Fears or Khaman Maluach, while the player most often mocked to them overall is Yaxel Lendeborg.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a very important summer, as you know,\u201d Nets coach Jordi Fern\u00e1ndez understated before Tuesday\u2019s 119-114 win against fellow lottery hopeful New Orleans. \u201cWe have four firsts and one second. We\u2019re not going to know where the lottery is going to fall, because that\u2019s part of the odds and so on and so forth. You can only control what you can control, and right now, that is what we know for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n
The all-important lottery is May 12 in Chicago, right in the middle of the draft combine.<\/p>\n
The Nets could\u2019ve clinched no worse than sixth in the lottery seedings with a loss Tuesday. If that\u2019s where they finish, they\u2019d have a 50.3 percent chance of drafting either seventh (29.8) or eighth (20.5), and 37.2 percent at landing in the top four.<\/p>\n
All other outcomes would be long shots. And with that lottery pick, most mocks have them selecting either Maluach or Fears. <\/p>\n
Maluach \u2014 a 7-foot-2, 250-pound defensive game-changer \u2014 was tabbed to go to Brooklyn by both Tankathon and SB Nation. <\/p>\n
The freshman from Duke \u2014 who is from South Sudan, and could face deportation under President Donald Trump\u2019s new policies \u2014 is just 18 and only started playing five years ago.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just a testament to his work. Everybody comes in, you\u2019ve got guys with the big names at Duke where everybody\u2019s [saying you\u2019re] going to start and do this, do that. And for him to go in there and take what\u2019s his, he went in there and it\u2019s a testament to his work,\u201d Nets wing Dariq Whitehead told The Post of his fellow Blue Devil product. <\/p>\n
\u201cHe went in, put in the work and had a huge summer. \u2026 And he\u2019s continuing to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
Fears was tabbed to go sixth to the Nets by both ESPN and Bleacher Report. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s still just 18, but used his quickness and handle to average 17.1 points and 4.1 assists for Oklahoma, getting into the lane at will.<\/p>\n
Point guard has been an issue since Kyrie Irving demanded a trade. <\/p>\n
Fears has the potential to be that on-ball shot creator the Nets have lacked for years.<\/p>\n
Arguably the draft\u2019s top scorer, Texas guard Tre Johnson, was mocked to Brooklyn in that same spot by Yahoo.<\/p>\n
The Nets have three more first-rounders, picks from the Bucks (currently 18th), Knicks (26th) and Houston (27th). All are fluid, but the latter pair can\u2019t fall, and the Milwaukee selection is unlikely to dip.<\/p>\n
Lendeborg is a rare senior, a 22-year-old from Pennsauken, N.J. But the power forward from UAB was hugely productive. <\/p>\n
He can finish, pass and crash the boards, averaging 17.7 points, 11.4 rebounds and 4.2 assists, hitting 35.7 percent from deep. <\/p>\n
The 6-foot-9, 240-pounder was mocked to Brooklyn 26th by Tankathon and Bleacher Report, and 27th by ESPN.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have an important summer league with a lot of the guys that most likely will get drafted,\u201d Fern\u00e1ndez said. \u201cObviously the job to draft is [general manager] Sean [Marks] and his team. Obviously coaches will support and we\u2019ll do whatever they need us to do, from opinions to work to watch film to do workouts. \u2026 We\u2019ll be 100 percent available for them. We\u2019ll try to help and we\u2019ll support their job the same way when I coach I feel supported by them. When they have to pick, they\u2019re gonna be supported by us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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