If the Knicks win the lottery, whomever they choose to take will make his Big Apple debut in Brooklyn.
League sources told The Post the NBA draft will return to Barclays Center for a third straight season next month. It will mark the fifth straight year the draft will be held at an arena that houses the Nets. It took place at Prudential Center in Newark in 2011 and 2012.
While the June 25 draft will be held at the home of the Nets, the focus locally will almost exclusively be on the Knicks, who have the second-best chance to claim the top spot in the NBA draft lottery, which will be held at the ABC Studios in Times Square May 19.
No matter what happens that night, however, the Knicks will be guaranteed their first top-five selection since they picked Kenny Walker fifth overall in 1986.
The Nets, on the other hand, will enter the draft with two picks No. 29 — after swapping first-round picks with the Hawks as part of the Joe Johnson trade back in 2012 — and No. 41 overall.
The draft was held at Madison Square Garden annually from 2001 through 2010 before it moved to Newark once the Garden began to its three-year renovation.