The Nets reportedly had Caris LeVert at No. 11 on their internal mock draft. It’s probably where he would have taken without that nasty record of foot injuries: three fractures and three surgeries in three years at Michigan.
A lot of draftniks thought it was a stretch for the Nets to take him at No. 20, after acquiring the pick from Indiana for Thaddeus Young. None of the big mock drafts had him in the first round, but the Nets believed in the 6’7" swingman. LeVert believed he was undervalued, too, that he should have gone at least that high.