STASH UPDATE: Juan Pablo Vaulet improving; Aleksandar Vezenkov still stuck?

The Nets two draft stashes, Juan Pablo Vaulet and Aleksandar Vezenkov, have had their up’s and down’s this season. Vaulet is showing some improvement at Bahia Blanca in Argentina after his latest ankle surgery but Vezenkov has been stuck on the bench at F.C. Barcelona ... until now.

The 6’7” Vaulet was a prize acquisition of Billy King and and his assistant, Frank Zanin. On the night of the 2015 Draft, the Nets sent Charlotte two second rounders and $880,000 so they could take the then 19-year-old at No. 39. (The Heat’s Josh Richardson was taken one spot later.) Angular and athletic, Nets officials internally —and optimistically— referred to him as “the next Manu,” a reference to fellow…