When the NBA hosts its annual draft lottery on Could 12 in Chicago, the Nets contingent there’s assured of its first lottery choose since 2010.
And coach Jordi Fernández goes to be available and prepared for some franchise-changing fortune, hoping the pingpong balls will bounce Brooklyn’s means.
“I will be in Chicago,” Fernández stated. “I will be with a group and as you guys know, there’s a lot going on there. And we’re just ready to be lucky.”
If there was ever a time for the Nets to get fortunate, this may be it.
There are few inflection factors this pivotal.
The Nets have the sixth-best odds within the lottery, which means they’ll have a 9 p.c likelihood of profitable the No. 1 choose and Cooper Flagg.
The Nets have a 37.2 p.c likelihood at getting a choose someplace within the high 4. They’ve 50.3 p.c odds of touchdown both seventh (29.7) or eighth (20.6).
“Obviously, we have a very important summer here,” stated Fernández, who was at P.S. 1 in honor of Sant Jordi’s Day, distributing roses and books within the customary custom of the Catalonian vacation. “And we’ll be working and organized and excited because obviously with the draft and everything we have going on.”
The Nets have 5 picks in June — 4 first-rounders and their very own second. Past the lottery, Brooklyn will choose nineteenth, twenty sixth, twenty seventh and thirty sixth.
Additionally they have 20-year-olds Dariq Whitehead and Noah Clowney, each youthful than a 3rd of this incoming class.
It begs the query of whether or not the Nets would commerce a choose. And what number of prospects can they develop on the similar time?
“Yeah, it’s a good question, probably a question more for [general manager] Sean [Marks] than it is for me,” Fernández demurred. “I’ll be ready to coach whatever group we put together. And the coaches, as we always try to do, [will] help them get better and show them the way and the habits … and be connected and do all those things we’ve been preaching and build the identity we want to build.”
Whoever Brooklyn does find yourself taking, Fernández can have an lively position.
“There’s going to be no surprises at the draft, who we draft, because he would’ve had a say in it,” Marks stated. “His staff is empowered to voice an opinion and we truly collaborate on this stuff. We have a year under our belts of understanding Jordi’s system and how he wants to play and what sort of talent he’s looking for, what attributes he’s looking for. What’s important to him is super important.”
Fernández was coy about what attributes are vital so as to add on this draft — capturing, size, protection, and many others.
However regardless of the case, his enter will carry weight.
“Yeah, obviously this is my first time as a head coach going through this process, so it’s going to be nothing like I’ve done before,” Fernández stated. “Sean all the time talks about collaboration, and that’s what I’m prepared for; I’m prepared to assist, and do no matter I can, to offer my opinion.
“But at the end of the day, Sean and his group, what they do is they watch these kids live [and] on tape. They’ve been watching them for a while, so they’re the experts. Me and the coaches will be there to support and help. So it’s an exciting summer.”
