Hoping to make the play-in and perhaps the playoffs<\/a> next season, things won\u2019t be easy for Brooklyn. With the new lottery odds coming into place for next year, the Nets will be playing a dangerous game regardless of how their season goes.\u00a0<\/p>\n With all teams that miss the play-in and avoid a bottom three record having a tie for the best odds at No. 1, the Nets currently project to hand the best odds in the lottery to the Houston Rockets next season. Even if the Nets are able to make it into the play-in or playoffs, the Rockets will still have a decent shot at the top pick via Brooklyn.<\/p>\n To avoid giving the Rockets any chance at the top pick whatsoever, the Nets would need to finish in the top six in the East or win the 7-8 play-in game. Obviously, if Brooklyn could achieve either feat, next season would be an undeniable success.<\/p>\n However, with how competitive the East projects to be next year and the makeup of Brooklyn\u2019s roster being a bit questionable, the Nets will almost certainly not be in those conversations. That means Brooklyn will patiently be awaiting the results of a draft lottery it isn\u2019t technically part of to see if the 2026-27 campaign was a complete disaster.<\/p>\n Of course, the Nets should still have internal expectations and a scale of success that doesn\u2019t take the draft lottery into account whatsoever. With so many young players and some veterans at key junctures of their careers, next season could be a real turning point for several players. After all, the Nets shouldn\u2019t entirely base their season\u2019s level of success on the consequences of a trade made six years earlier.<\/p>\n Still, the ghosts of giving Boston top picks that landed the Celtics Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum still haunt the Nets<\/a>. Even if the situation is out of their control, another future star heading elsewhere via a Brooklyn pick would represent another blow to the franchise.<\/p>\n
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