In the "anything can happen" environment of the NBA draft, who knows? The Nuggets could end up with two lottery picks June 26.  

Not even Kiki Vandeweghe, the team's general manager, knows, which is why he brought in Marquette All-American Dwyane Wade for a look Saturday morning, with Syracuse superstar Carmelo Anthony, the player the Nuggets are expected to select with the third overall pick, due in for his first visit tonight.

"Well, you just never know," Vandeweghe said. "It's happened before ... like last year (when the Nuggets drafted Nikoloz Tskitishvili with the fifth pick and acquired Nene Hilario, the seventh pick). So you just never know. There's a lot of things that can happen on the day of the draft. You know people trade future draft picks if they want to point to the future or if they don't happen to want a first-round pick this year. You just never know."

With Ohio prepster LeBron James headed to the Cleveland Cavaliers with the first pick and Yugoslavian teenager Darko Milicic expected to be drafted by the Detroit Pistons at No. 2, it may well be that the Nuggets, with that third pick, are the team in control of the first round of the draft.

"That's an interesting way to look at it," Vandeweghe said. "I think this early it's fascinating that the top two picks would be already spoken for. Usually there's a lot more drama to that. But you know, I think everyone viewed this as a three-person draft, so we obviously wouldn't have been unhappy with any of the top three if it turns out that way.