The Brooklyn Nets, for the first time in six years, will have their own first-round selection in the NBA Draft, and are on pace for that pick to be pretty much right in the middle of the round.
Based on current standings, the Nets would have the No. 16 overall pick as the holders of the second-worst record among the 16 teams currently occupying playoff positions.
(One of my pet peeves from the mock draft crowd is an insistence upon projecting draft order based solely on winning percentage when the likelihood is that at least two and probably three of the Eastern Conference playoff teams will be drafting after at least two Western clubs with better records.