The Nets' problem with tomorrow's night NBA Draft is, basically, about 17 or 18 problems. They simply don't know and can't figure who's going where as they sit and wait with the 22nd selection.

Three picks are virtually etched in stone: high school hunk LeBron James, foreign stud Darko Milicic and Syracuse's Carmelo Anthony. Figure Georgia Tech's Chris Bosh goes four. From there, good luck.

"I think we'll get a player, a good player," said Nets team president Rod Thorn. "But you just don't know who is going to be there."

This year, it seems, a player projected in a late lottery slot, if passed on, could fall as many as seven or eight slots. Thorn has said the Nets can figure on point guards, shooting guards, some power forwards and maybe a small forward being available. If the Nets had their way, Alabama's Jarvis Hayes, a good-shooting small forward, would be sitting at 22, but that would be more of a plunge than a slip. Hayes figures to go earlier.