Thursday’s Nets-Pacers game is a lottery game, plain and simple. Brooklyn enters Thursday at 20-59 with the third-best odds, Indiana enters 18-61 with the second-best, and the Nets’ slim 0.5-game cushion over the Utah Jazz and Sacramento Kings means one result can shift the board with only three games left. That’s why a matchup between two eliminated teams still carries weight. It’s about …
