Examining players who could be Nets lottery pick

In a Nets season that’s all about the rebuild, they are all but assured of their first lottery pick in a decade and a half.And Wednesday they were beaten by fellow tanking rival Toronto in a game with all sorts of lottery implications.The Nets and Raptors are both hoping for the coveted top pick and generational talent Cooper Flagg, but in one of the deepest drafts in recent memory, there are a host of other elite talents that could potentially become the foundation of a roster.And games like Wednesday’s were vital in jockeying for position.With the loss, the Nets kept pace with the 76ers — who lost to the Wizards — for fifth in the lottery odds, and the seventh-place Raptors now trailing them by three games.As a refresher, drawings will be conducted May 12 for the top four picks.

The fifth-worst record would give the Nets a 10.5 percent chance at Flagg and 42.1 percent odds of a top four pick.At sixth, those would fall to nine and 37.25 percent, seventh to 7.5 and 31.9.

That’s presuming there are no ties, which would skew the odds.With the lottery’s fifth seed, the Nets would have almost no chance to actually pick there, their likeliest landing spot either seventh (26.7) or sixth (19.6).At sixth, their likeliest draft slot would still be picking seventh (29.8), but this time followed by eighth (20.55).And if they “fall” to seventh, picking eighth would become by far their most probable outcome (34.1), followed by seventh (19.7) or even ninth (12.9), a tough pill for such a lost season.Though picking in the 4-9 range won’t net them Flagg or Rutgers’ Dylan Harper (or likely even RU’s Ace Bailey), there is talent to be had — more than in almost any season in recent memory.“I’ll put VJ Edgecombe and Tre Johnson in that mix.

Those guys are great,” longtime 76ers scout Michael VandeGarde told The Post.“[My fifth pick] would be Tre Johnson.

You could change the order between two dudes, but I’d be ecstatic about them.… Then there’...