{"id":192949,"date":"2026-04-11T01:37:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:37:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192949\/"},"modified":"2026-04-11T01:37:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T01:37:40","slug":"nets-need-to-make-their-own-luck-and-earn-a-top-3-nba-draft-pick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/192949\/","title":{"rendered":"Nets need to make their own luck and earn a top 3 NBA draft pick"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Nets\u2019 mission for this season was securing a top seed in the lottery.<\/p>\n<p>Mission (almost) accomplished.<\/p>\n<p>That is, unless Brooklyn stumbled at the finish, and fumbled a golden opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>The Nets knew they could clinch a Top 3 seed in next month\u2019s lottery with losses Friday in Milwaukee and in Sunday\u2019s finale in Toronto. And of all the teams in the lottery, Brooklyn may need a high pick the most.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Nets\u2019 mission for this season was securing a top seed in the lottery. Mission (almost) accomplished. That&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,355,99,21,70186,9,24,63,319,431,428],"class_list":["post-192949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-nets","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-nba","tag-nba-draft-lottery","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=192949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}