On Friday, the Nets will receive a tough reminder when they travel to Dallas.

It doesn’t matter how much a team wants to tank during the season; there is no guarantee that a team will win the draft lottery, or that another team that did not tank won’t be victorious.

The Mavericks were the most recent example.

While the Nets, Jazz, Wizards and Hornets all purposefully tanked last season, and the latter three had the best odds to win, the pingpong balls chose Dallas. They didn’t aim to tank yet still won the lottery with the 12th-worst record of the season.

It was a complete shocker for a team that traded away the face of its franchise, Luka Dončić. However, that’s how the cookie crumbled and it could go that way again this year.

As of Tuesday morning, the Nets have fallen to sixth in t

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