Evan’s Nets Lottery Pain Meets Knicks Joy

Evan & Tiki

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🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 11 minutes

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After celebrating the Knicks’ stunning takeover of Philadelphia, Evan Roberts turns to the other side of his basketball life: the Brooklyn Nets’ brutal lottery disappointment. With the Nets falling to sixth in what he saw as a crucial draft, Evan unloads on the pain of rooting for a franchise that never seems to catch a break. Evan and Tiki connect the Nets’ bad luck to Evan’s past trolling of Knicks fans after the 2019 lottery, leading to a reluctant apology and a search for hope. The Knicks’ rise becomes the unlikely model for Brooklyn, as the guys discuss how smart leadership, patience, and finding the right star can matter just as much as lottery luck.

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0:00.0	Now, let me just address this.
0:01.6	I get it in and out and we can move on with our lives. Yesterday was the biggest day of the sports calendar for me, because as a loser fan of some horrible teams, you have to rely on ping pong balls. And so the Brooklyn Nets were relying on winning the lottery, something they don't do unless they traded the pickaway. Those are the rules. And I went into this lottery knowing it's going to end bad. I was prepared for it. I said it many times.
0:23.6	Why did you know it's going to end
0:21.1	bad. I was prepared for it. I said it many times. Why did you know it was going? Because we're the
0:25.2	nets. There's nothing to do with the net. Okay. Well, we don't have any luck on our side. But when
0:31.0	that logo showed up at six, the feeling of death just took over my body. And I don't mean like actual death because I'm still
0:39.6	alive, but just death of, wow, they're never going to win anything. They had KD. and
0:44.4	Kyrie and a pandemic stopped them. A pandemic stopped them. Last year, they moved down three
0:53.2	spots to eight. This year, they were down three spots to eight.
0:54.7	This year, they were awful.
0:56.8	I sat through it.
0:57.7	I embraced it.
0:58.9	And they go in a four-person draft, or at least a draft that were perceived to be, just be in the top four.
1:05.2	They go from three to six.
1:07.8	And I'm not mad at anybody because the rules are the rules.
1:10.5	And I understood the tank. And I understood not mad at anybody because the rules are the rules and I understood the
1:11.6	tank and I understood the risks. It's more like what do we have to do to get some luck? And
1:17.6	then it hit me. I realize what needs to be done. I need to be the better man. I brought this all
1:23.5	upon me. This is all my fault. So net fans, all 30 of you, I take the blame. And you want
1:29.5	to know why I take the blame. Why did you bring this on May 15th, 2019? And I can't live it down.
1:35.7	I need to exercise the demons of May 15th, 2019. What happened on May 15th, 2019? On May 15th, 2019, you people, that's right, most of the audience,
1:46.6	you Nick fans, you were me. You had the worst record in the league, and you were sitting there
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