Brooklyn Nets UNC’s Caleb Wilson forcing his way into draft conversations that could include tanking Nets By Brian Lewis Published Feb. 20, 2026, 9:51 p.m. ET Caleb Wilson reacts during North Carolina's Jan. 21 game. Imagn Images This year’s historically loaded draft class is so stacked, it’s touched off a race to the bottom with a third of the NBA’s teams openly tanking, including the Nets.
There are three perceived generational talents in Kansas’ Darryn Peterson, BYU’s AJ Dybantsa and Duke’s Cameron Boozer.
But as the season has gone on, is that Big Three becoming a Big Four?
Uber-athletic North Carolina forward Caleb Wilson has been so spectacular that he’s forced himself into the conversation with that aforementioned trio, no longer a consolation prize but a potential difference-maker in his own right.
