Brooklyn fills out staff ahead of draft

With the NBA Draft looming Thursday night at Downtown’s Barclays Center, the Brooklyn Nets officially unveiled head coach Jacque Vaughn’s staff of assistants.

As reported two weeks ago, Kevin Ollie, Will Weaver, Jay Hernandez, Ronnie Burrell and Corey Vinson are the new additions to a bench that brings back director of player development Adam Caporn and assistants Trevor Hendry and Ryan Forehan-Kelly.

Brooklyn is loaded with picks heading into this draft, but could use those selections to make significant trades or rely on its staff to continue developing young talent.

Also, Portland point guard extraordinaire Damian Lillard may be in play as a potential trade target for general manager Sean Marks, who has been typically coy about his intentions ahead of the draft.

Lillard, who intimated in April that he might not be on board with the Trail Blazers’ rebuilding project, has been rumored to be interested in playing alongside Brooklyn swingman Mikal Bridges, whom the Nets acquired last February from Phoenix in the deal that sent Kevin Durant to Phoenix.

The seven-time All-Star also took in the Nets’ Game 3 loss to Philadelphia in the opening round of last season’s playoffs at Barclays.

“Are you gonna go young, or are we gonna get something done?” Lillard pondered in an ESPN interview.

“I think we just kinda been on the fence with fully committing to either one. I just think we at that point know where everybody wants to win,” he added. “They believe I deserve that opportunity.”

Marks hasn’t budged on his early stance that the Nets, armed with Bridges, Cameron Johnson and Nic Claxton, could benefit more from bringing in fresh talent and letting Vaughn and his assistants develop players instead of rebuilding on the fly with a star of Lillard’s caliber.

“I think in this day and age, we’ve all seen…