CHICAGO — The Nets don’t have the face of their franchise.
Lottery luck Sunday in Chicago (3 p.m. on ESPN) could change that.
Brooklyn hasn’t drafted a homegrown All-Star in over a decade, dating back to Brook Lopez. But in a generational class with a trio of projected franchise-changers, the Nets go into Sunday’s lottery tied for the best odds of winning the No. 1 pick (14.0 percent) and of landing a coveted top 3 pick (40.15 percent).
BYU wing AJ Dybantsa, Kansas guard Darryn Peterson and Duke big Cam Boozer are all viewed as face-of-the-franchise stars, with North Carolina’s Caleb Wilson an elite prospect who could conceivably turn that Big Three into a Fantastic Four.
“If I got another guy here who really is able to create and draw some attention, and now I’m getting two or three wide-open 3s a game, it would really help us,” Michael Porter Jr. said on the Road Trippin’ podcast.
“That’s what we’re [looking for]. I’ve talked to the front office, and that would be a big thing for us. I think we’re going to get a good draft pick, and then we’ve got the most money in the NBA to go get a really good playmaking two-guard or point guard; that would just help.”
Forward AJ Dybantsa reacts to scoring a career high and new freshman record during the second half of BYU’s win over rival UTAh on Jan. 24, 2026, in Provo, Utah. AP
Despite a glaring need for a playmaker, Brooklyn is talent-poor enough that it will almost certainly draft the best available player and trade or sign a guard if needed. With the Nets owning Houston swap rights on next year’s pick — in a class already seen as weak — Sunday marks their best shot at a young star.
Dybantsa, Peterson or Boozer are all perceived cornerstones, and Wilson could be as well. If they fall outside the top 4, there are a host of guards in Kingston Flemings, Darius Acuff Jr., Keaton Wagler and Mikel Brown Jr.
Could sliding as they did last year prompt Brooklyn to be more aggressive in the trade market?
They can’t dip below the seventh pick, but their likeliest landing spots are sixth (26.02 percent chance) or fifth (14.82 percent chance).
Cameron Boozer drives on Flory Bidunga during the first half of Duke’s win over Kansas in the State Farm Classic on Nov. 18, 2025 at Madison Square Garden. Robert Sabo for NY Post
A franchise that has been one of the league’s most star-crossed will send owner Joe Tsai to the team drawing room and Hall of Famer Vince Carter to the dais seeking some much-needed luck.
“I’m excited to be representing the Nets at the draft lottery this weekend,” Carter said in a message recorded for Brooklyn fans. “I’m hoping I can bring us some luck. Stay tuned. Go Nets.”
The Nets need luck more than their lottery co-leaders, as Indiana reached the Finals a year ago and Washington added Anthony Davis and Trae Young. Brooklyn lacks a star, and this is its best opportunity for one.
Kansas guard Darryn Peterson Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post
To drive that point home, the Mavs, Spurs, 76ers and Hornets got the first four picks last year, and vaulted from averaging 29 wins to 44. But the Jazz, Wizards, Pelicans and Nets settled for the next four selections, and after averaging 20.5 wins were right back in the cellar again with 21.
The lottery has rarely been kind to the Nets, with top 8 odds 10 times and only moving up twice: winning in 1990 to land Derrick Coleman and again a decade later to pick Kenyon Martin. Within two years they’d made the Finals.
Their lucky charm in the drawing room that day in 2000 — ex-team president Finn Wentworth — told The Post a successful Sunday could spark a similar meteoric rise.
“Ours was the worst draft. This is arguably the best draft in the modern era,” Wentworth told The Post. “They don’t need to get the first pick in this draft, it’s so deep. If they get one of the top 3 picks, they’ve got a force to coalesce around.
“If they can get one of the top 3 picks in this draft, they can coalesce around this guy, that’s going to go ahead and become a cornerstone.
“This is one of those drafts where it’s very, very deep. You have three or four guys that are A-pluses, and then you have a bunch of A’s.”
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Five Major Takeaways from 49ers Rookie Minicamp “You can tell he played left tackle for six years in college. He’s built like a left tackle, which means he carries his weight effortlessly. In fact, he wears no. 74 — Joe Staley’s old number — and even moves a bit like him.
Willis is moving to guard because he has short arms. But he already looks like a better athlete than Connor Colby, who started six games at left guard as a rookie last season. I wouldn’t be surprised if Willis beats out Colby for that job this year.”
NFL writer believes 49ers WR Ricky Pearsall is headed for a breakout season “Last year coming into the season and healed up from the gunshot wound: PCL, knee injury, ankle, inconsistency, and a lack of availability,” Whitner said. “That’s Year two. Now we did see him flash. We did see his ability to separate. We did see him make plays, but we didn’t see it when it counted.
“Now you go into Year three. If Ricky Pearsall misses around 50% of the availability in the games this year, I can say that it’s probably over for the perception of Ricky Pearsall developing into a number-one wide receiver in Kyle Shanahan’s offense.”
“Pearsall has been written off in many circles,” Davenport added. “But there’s a legitimate scenario where Pearsall has far and away the best season of his career this year.”
This guy probably isn’t the total opposite of Aiyuk, Deebo, and Jennings, but he sure seems less likely to combust on the 49ers the way each of those three players did at different points and in varying degrees.
Notably, he’s not a young rookie — he played at three schools (Washington State, Oklahoma State, and Mississippi) and is 23 — and Stribling comes off as even more mature than that. Like he’s got the world view of a steely five-year veteran.
“My father was a Marine for 17 years, right?” Stribling said. “So he kind of instilled a lot of discipline and a great work ethic in me. I’m a very calm person outside of football. Just kind of going through life. But when the pads come on and I’m on the field, I turn into a different mentality.
“I’m very process-oriented, very goal-oriented person. I like to get everything done to my maximum ability.””
It appeared to be a promising development as Williams, who also tore the lateral meniscus in his right knee on Nov. 2, prepares for training camp in July and August.
General manager John Lynch has said he would expect Williams to observe a gradual ramp-up in participation during camp. His recovery is not as far along as that of star counterpart Nick Bosa, who also tore the ACL in his right knee, but about a month and a half earlier on Sept. 21. Bosa did not suffer additional damage to any surrounding ligaments, unlike Williams.”
LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - FEBRUARY 11: Jauan Jennings #15 of the San Francisco 49ers throws the ball to Christian McCaffrey #23 for a touchdown in the second quarter against the Kansas City Chiefs during Super Bowl LVIII at Allegiant Stadium on February 11, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) | Getty Images
What the 49ers saw in De’Zhaun Stribling to select him No. 33 overall “OK, let’s go back to 2024 when Stribling was at Oklahoma State. In the video, I used Kansas State as an example because they had two NFL players in their secondary — one plays for the 49ers — and ran NFL coverages.
When you take a player as early as the 49ers did, Stribling has to show far more than simply being an effective blocker, or gadget player, or even as a deep threat. We showed how useful he can be on a down-to-down basis. At Oklahoma State, you could see Stribling winning in isolated situations.
When receivers create multiple yards of separation on underneath routes, your eyes should light up. Getting schemed open or running double moves isn’t impressive. Beating a cornerback on a slant and ending up multiple arm’s length away from them are the types of plays that should move the needle.
Stribling has the defensive back hopping the other way on the play route above. It’s a clean route that leads to yards after the catch.
Not every win a receiver has is when he’s targeted. Take this rep against the player the Chiefs traded up for, Mansoor Delane, for example. Stribling beats Delane instantaneously off the line and has him chasing for the entirety of the route.
When Stribling is progressing as a route runner forward and keeping his feet moving, he’s problematic to deal with.
He can get stuck at the line of scrimmage when he tries to muscle his way through the cornerback. There are also times when Stribling will get his feet outside of his frame, leading to balance issues at the top of his route. Those are all coachable.”
49ers’ new defensive coordinator Raheem Morris can talk, but one topic is off-limits (paywall) “Raheem Morris, 49, 23-year NFL coaching veteran, is known as a strong communicator who connects well with his players. And this is clear after the former Falcons and Buccaneers head coach had his introductory news conference with Bay Area reporters Thursday: The gifted speaker is also adept at saying plenty — and revealing little — with the media…..
….Morris is well versed in multiple systems: He’s overseen both 3-4 and 4-3 defenses, and he’s increasingly used five-man fronts that have included three defensive linemen and two stand-up outside linebackers. On Thursday, Morris did stress the importance of mixing up fronts and coverages to keep offenses guessing.
“You’ve got to have some multiplicity in your front,” Morris said. “You’ve got to have multiplicity in the back end. You’ve got to be able to do different things. You’d like to be able to do those things when you decide to do those things and use them as terms where you can dictate. … But (the 49ers) have been a four-down rush team, and we’ve done a nice job with it.”
Pocket movement, Kubiak pointed out, is also a matter of timing.
“He can make plays with his feet, but are you missing an opportunity to make a better play down the field,” Kubiak said. “Maybe because you decided to run, or you moved a certain way and you missed a guy down the field. So it’s just working on pocket movement, working on ways you can move in the pocket to find throwing lanes and being more consistent in that area.”
49ers coaches speak to reporters ahead of rookie minicamp “So, like when Kyle came to Tampa fresh out of UCLA, all fired up and eager, we were stealing his dad’s zone scheme keeper game as much as he was stealing Tampa two and all different values that he wanted to bring to us. So when we did all the cross training where even when we were young, it was constantly, staff development within the building with some of the better coaches that we had been around in our lifetime, like Mike Tomlin was secondary coach and Monte Kiffin was the defensive coordinator along with Rod Marinelli, and what he was able to bring with the original a part of his attack front doing some of the different things, sort of the stuff that we have, very similar to that stuff. And he was running all the good coaches andJoe Barry, all those guys. But we shared a bunch of information, and then I got a chance to obviously work on defense in such a long time. When I was able to switch over to offense, with Kyle in Atlanta kind of having the outside-in version of what the offense looks like, what it means and what it’s going to do to really get into the deep weeds of it, watch him game plan and watch him go through the process of a week of preparing for a different team. And then even when he left, being able to stay on that side of the ball and really develop and grow as a person that can really go out there and formulate plays to go find open spaces and do different things that you want to do from an offensive standpoint was so much fun and a different perspective than you had just going out there coaching defense, right? You can actually speak in their language, understand what some of the quarterback reads are, being able to be detailed enough to go out there and try to stop those things. Being able to explain it to your players in a completely different way, which was my strength when I went from defense to offense.”
Uar Bernard impressed scouts with his pre-draft workouts.Photograph: Michael Owens/Getty Images
Uar Bernard has become a source of borderline indecent fascination in the NFL – the kind of prospect who underscores how athletes are identified and the inherent limits of pro football scouting itself. A swole 6ft 4in and 306lbs, Uar (pronounced OO-ar) Bernard doesn’t just look the part of a fearsome defensive lineman; fans post his shirtless photos next to ones of Myles Garrett, the game-wrecking Cleveland Browns pass rusher who set the regular-season sack record last year. Veteran NFL analyst Lance Zierlein described Bernard as “one of the rarest of physical specimens I’ve seen in the sport”. Other people who have spent their lifetimes in football say Bernard looks like a Marvel creation.
George Whitfield – who has been a private coach to pros such as Andrew Luck and Cam Newton – likened Bernard to the NBA’s 7ft 4in Victor Wembanyama, another sports star whose physical traits seem alien even among other professional athletes. Bernard’s testing numbers bordered on otherworldly: a 4.63-second 40-yard dash, a 39-inch vertical, the 10ft 10in broad jump – or 14in farther than the next-best defensive end prospect. Scouts were awestruck by Bernard’s 6% body fat – which would be considered low for a marathon runner – down from the 11% that he started with at the beginning of his draft training four months earlier.
Despite this hype, Bernard fell to the seventh round of this year’s draft, usually the preserve of players with only a longshot of carving out a long career in the NFL. And he fell that far for a simple reason: he had never played a down of football in his life. The game wasn’t available to him in Nigeria, where he grew up, and he only came to the United States for this rare opportunity.
He was drafted by the Philadelphia Eagles, a team known for taking risks on untested players. “I’m the GM,” the Eagles’ Howie Roseman explained to Bernard before selecting him with the 251st pick. “We’re gonna get everything out of you that we can, and we’re gonna rally around you.” That support was on display at the Eagles’ rookie minicamp last week, when TJ Burke, a Lehigh University defensive tackle tryout, helped Bernard buckle his helmet chinstrap for his first practice in pads.
Bernard has been packaged as the feelgood story, a viral reminder that great athletes can come from anywhere. But if anything, he exposes just how blinkered the NFL still is. For all its talk of global reach and competitive balance, the NFL remains, at its core, scared to take chances, skeptical of anything that doesn’t fit the mold and slow to recognize talent that doesn’t come pre-certified.
The NFL didn’t find Bernard; he had to put himself on its radar – and in Nigeria, that signal is faint. There may well be no connection at all if not for the league’s International Player Pathway program (or IPP), a wider net shaped a decade ago by two London-born footballers: Osi Umenyiora, a two-time Super Bowl champion with the New York Giants, and Aden Durde, the former linebacker turned defensive coordinator of the reigning champion Seattle Seahawks.
Seeing no clear pathway into the NFL for players who had not gone to high school or college in the US, they pooled their contacts and resources to arrange training, meetings and tryouts for international prospects – who, to that point, had primarily been scouted via YouTube. Quickly, it emerged as a feeder system approaching the bygone NFL Europe – more of a holding pen for fringe domestic prospects than a genuine pipeline for international talent. “I’m the first person from my tribe and my state to be part of the IPP program,” Bernard said before the draft. “It’s a big opportunity to represent Nigeria and everyone back home.”
Since 2020, more than half of the NFL’s 32 teams have signed players through the program. Bernard makes three IPP alums for an Eagles team who also have Australia’s Jordan Mailata, the converted rugby player who helped anchor Philadelphia’s Super Bowl-winning offensive line two seasons ago, and another former rugby player, Kenya’s Joshua Weru, who trained with Bernard in the lead-up to the draft.
“He’s gonna love it,” Mailata, the IPP’s biggest success story to date, said of his teammate’s new NFL life. “Honestly, it’s just the start of the journey, the start of the story. But we’re gonna get him there, that’s for sure.” By there, Mailata meant something resembling a serviceable pro – if not as devastating as Garrett, then at least as impressive as he was when he lined up against a tree.
But even as the NFL broadens its scouting lens, the process still leans more toward waiting for talent to surface than actively digging for it. Bernard, after all, isn’t some off-the-beaten-path discovery. According to the Athletic, a basketball coach suggested he try American football after observing him on the court – effectively halting Bernard’s pursuit of a more traditional career in real estate. That chance meeting led to him signing up for American football camps in Africa before his eventual acceptance into the IPP.
It raises the question of how much more talent is out there for NFL teams to discover if only they expanded their global scouting network. How many more Bernards are there in Nigeria waiting to be discovered? Or Mailatas in Australia? Or Charlie Smyths in Ireland? In a league where slim advantages can be the difference between a losing season and the playoffs, smart teams should be looking further than the traditional player pipelines. They never find Bernard if Umenyiora and Durde, still outsiders in a sense, don’t bridge the gap.
Even Bernard’s workout breakout is emblematic of the NFL’s passive, centralized approach to scouting. The buzz didn’t come from team scouts tracking him down in the hinterland of Nigeria, in the farming village outside Abuja where he grew up. It came at a routine pre-draft stop in Ashburn, Virginia, where scouts gathered to evaluate prospects from historically Black colleges and universities (or HBCUs) – as opposed to visiting those campuses individually, as they regularly do with players from predominantly white Power Four programs. (In fact, the league recently folded the IPP showcase into the HBCU combine.) The dynamic recalls how Bill Nunn, the Black press icon turned NFL scout, helped build the Pittsburgh Steelers into a 1970s dynasty simply by mining Black colleges that other teams overlooked. Convenience, in the end, is king.
Bernard may seem like an unusual NFL player, but he fits an old script – one where religious faith, sacrifice and gratitude are prized. (“My biggest motivation is God and my family,” Bernard said.) That script keeps players reverent to a game that ultimately consumes them, and loyal to a system that controls talent more than it develops it. In a free market, they would call this forced labor, however well compensated. In football, they call it the dream – even as it’s defined from above, not experienced equally from within. Ain’t that America, where self-determination is a helluva lot easier to sell than secure.
For fans who indulge without reckoning with the costs, Bernard is an easy story to support. “My strength is my athleticism, my work ethic and my ability to adapt quickly,” he said before the draft. “But beyond that, I’ve learned that you have to truly love the game. That’s what pushes you to do more.”
To be sure, the NFL’s centralized scouting model has its efficiencies, but it’s not designed for discovery or innovation. That, ultimately, is what makes Bernard’s case so compelling. Time will tell what kind of pro he rounds into, and the Eagles appear committed to giving him a relatively long runway. (Under league rules, teams can stash one international prospect in a special exemption slot, giving long-shot talent room to develop without eating up precious roster space.) But what seems clear at this stage is that he was always going to become another cog in an NFL machine that’s much better at turning players into versions of itself than leaving room for rare finds to change much of anything at all.
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“You look at my turnovers, a lot of them were just on me and nothing they did,” Harden said afterward. “That’s the game right there. … I gotta be better and will be better turning the basketball over.”
Harden is partially right. Several of those turnovers were sloppy. There’s a backcourt violation that shouldn’t have happened, once he correctly tried to take Duncan Robinson off the dribble but bounced it off his foot, and there were a couple he simply lost control. Things like that are just part of the game.
But there’s a bigger issue at play here. Turnovers have been a problem for the Cavs — particularly for Harden — during the postseason. This was the third time in eight playoff games that he’s had more giveaways (7) than made field goals (6). How often it’s happened shows that this is more than just a lack of focus.
Throughout his career, Harden has often operated in lineups that try to create perfect spacing. Ideally, all of his teammates are shooters so that the defense is forced to make a difficult decision. Do you try to send extra bodies to the basket to help on a Harden drive, or do you stay on the perimeter to prevent three-point shots?
That was a tough call when you were going up against the 2018 Houston Rockets. It isn’t going against Cleveland’s current starting lineup.
Neither Detroit nor the Toronto Raptors have respected three of the four Cavaliers starting alongside Harden. Teams are daring Dean Wade and Evan Mobley to shoot from the outside, and are willing to take their chances with Jarrett Allen inside.
Throw in Donovan Mitchell, who doesn’t move much off-ball, and you have a stagnant offense that is cheating into the lane to both cut off drives and lobs to the bigs. And if you try to force it inside, there’s a good chance that it’s going to wind up in a turnover.
There’s a downstream effect to not having good spacing. Now, defenders can be physical and tight at the point of attack because they know that there’s more than enough help behind them if they get beat off the dribble.
That leads to more turnovers like this, where Cade Cunningham is giving Harden no room to breathe.
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The additional help inside also bleeds into the shot diet. Harden took seven threes and just two shots at the rim. If the defense is crowding the paint, your only choice left is to shoot over the top.
After Game 7 against Toronto, multiple players mentioned that winning that series was a big step because this group was so new together. That newness is seen in how they’re still figuring out how to space the floor.
Harden only played with Allen and Mobley together in nine regular-season games. That number drops to four if you throw Wade into that grouping. By contrast, they’ve played twice as many playoff games together, and it’s only eight. That simply isn’t a lot of experience for a player who’s spent the better part of a decade playing in a completely different environment.
Unfortunately for Cleveland, there isn’t an easy solution for this. They simply need at least two bigs on the court at all times, and matchups like this call for extended Wade minutes even when he isn’t providing much offensively.
Max Strus had an incredible game. His shooting got the Cavs back into this one as he poured in 19 points on 13 shots. But even with that, the Cavs lost the minutes he played by nine. Single-game plus/minus isn’t always the most useful stat, but it does point to him not being asked to play an ideal role on this team.
The Cavs don’t have enough defensively in lineups where Strus is asked to defend bigger threes and fours as he’s had to do in both playoff series. In Game 1, Cleveland had a dreadful 124.5 defensive rating with Strus on the court.
This has been a common occurrence. Coming into Game 1, the Cavs have had a 117.1 defensive rating with Strus on in the postseason and a 104 without him. Wade has been nearly the exact opposite.
This isn’t a criticism of Strus. He holds up as well as you can expect in these situations. Instead, it’s a shortcoming in the roster’s construction that he’s continually being asked to guard out of position.
This forces the Cavs to make a decision. Do you believe an undersized defense can work so you can have better spacing? Or, do you trust Harden and Mitchell to figure things out with a cramped half-court offense? Choosing that second option makes sense. You’re just putting a lot on a point guard who’s being asked to play in a completely different context.
Mitchell’s scoring struggles compound these issues.
Mitchell once again wasn’t able to get to the rim. Only one of his 19 shots came in the restricted area. And while he did a good job of finishing the midrange floater (5-7), not driving completely to the hoop limits his ability to get to the line.
Mitchell took just two free-throw attempts in Game 1. This has been a recent trend throughout the postseason. He’s only attempted over that many twice in eight playoff games. By contrast, he only registered two or fewer free-throw shots 16 times in his 70 regular-season games.
Afterward, Mitchell blamed the lack of free throws on the officiating, but made sure not to go over the line to get fined. And while there’s some reason for frustration on his part, if he’s not getting to the rim, he’s simply not going to get calls.
Mitchell has been forced to play in tight spaces before in the playoffs with the Cavs. However, Toronto and Detroit are easily the two best defenses he’s faced in that time — at least they are in terms of locking down the paint.
Head coach Kenny Atkinson made some head-scratching decisions.
Here’s a quick rundown of things you usually don’t see in a second-round playoff game:
No Cavalier played 36 minutes or more, including the star guards.
Allen saw just 18 minutes after picking up three fouls in the first quarter. He finished with four personals.
The third center, Thomas Bryant, played 10 minutes, including at the start of the fourth.
Atkinson went with a group that included Keon Ellis, Dennis Schroder, and Bryant a minute into the fourth quarter of a six-point game. All three have already spent time this postseason out of the rotation.
Cleveland played exaggerated drop coverage, making it easier for Detroit’s guards to attack.
I know this was a short turnaround, and we’re expecting this to be a long series, but this game was managed like it was a regular-season game, not a playoff series opener.
The Cavs didn’t let Cunningham beat them as a scorer. He had 23 points on 6-19 shooting in 42 minutes after racking up 32, 32, and 45 points to close out the Orlando Magic in the first round.
Cleveland was able to contain him by showing multiple bodies when he tried to finish at the rim. He went just 2-7 on shots in the restricted area and 3-11 on looks in the paint overall.
This was one of the few things the Cavs did well in Game 1.
Despite the many areas the Cavs need to clean up, they still had a chance of winning this game.
This one was there for the taking. If the Cavs committed a few less turnovers and grabbed a couple more defensive rebounds, they probably would’ve come away from Game 1 a winner.
On one hand, that’s encouraging. It shows that the Cavs still have a good chance of taking this series. However, it’s never ideal to lose a winnable away game, especially for a team that is now 4-12 on the road in the postseason since trading for Mitchell.
We’ll see if the Cavs can make the necessary adjustments and split the two road games before the series shifts to Cleveland.
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The Miami Dolphins have added plenty of new players to their roster and Jeff Hafley has stressed how important competition is. With all these new faces, there are going to be plenty of position battles to watch over the summer. The Dolphins have plenty of bodies in the cornerbacks room, but who are going to be the top guys? Chris Johnson looks to be one of those guys after being drafted in the first round two weeks ago. While linebacker wasn’t a huge need, Jon-Eric Sullivan added two rookies in Jacob Rodriguez and Kyle Louis. Rodriguez has the best shot of stealing a starting spot if he can outduel Tyrel Dodson.
You can check out that story here, and the rest of the day’s round-up below.
