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One piece of Nets’ good news: Top rookie returning to bench

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Chris McCullough with commissioner Adam Silver at the 2015 NBA Draft.

Who says the Nets don’t have a lottery pick this year?

They will have one, Chris McCullough, sitting on the bench Friday on his 21st birthday against the Kings.

McCullough is the 6-foot-11 rookie picked 29th despite suffering a torn right ACL Jan. 11 last year after 16 games as a Syracuse freshman. Seen as a lottery pick as a frosh, he was considered a lottery certainty if he stayed. But after the injury, McCullough dropped like a rock on draft night.