For the first time in four years, Nets wing Caris LeVert worked out in the summer to get better — not just healthy.

“It was pretty discouraging,” LeVert admitted of the three previous summers when he rehabbed to overcome residual effects of foot fractures that led to three operations in 22 months. “I always tried to look at the finish line and times like now where I’m healthy. I knew I wouldn’t be injured the rest of my career. I just tried to look at the positives.”

Now LeVert, who appeared Thursday at Barclays Center for a project: OM Yoga event, in partnership with the WWE and the Susan G. Komen Foundation to fight breast cancer, sees the playoffs in the Nets’ future.

And he’s not still under the influence of surgical anesthesia.

“I feel like it’s really realistic,” said LeVert, echoing recent sentiments of teammate Jeremy Lin, with whom he toured Taiwan this summer. “Last year, we were like top seven in the East when we had all our players healthy. Just building off that momentum with the pieces we’ve added — obviously we lost a great player in Brook [Lopez] — but I feel with the pieces we’ve added we’ll be in that conversation.”

Now maybe LeVert, who Monday will be at the first-ever Brooklyn Nets Basketball Academy Camp in Battery Park City, is recalling too many good moments. But the Nets were 11-15 after the All-Star break and won seven of their last 13 games. So that may feel like top of the heap after a 9-47 start.

Health is huge for the Nets. Lin, such a key to the offense, played only 36 games because of injury. He looked good to LeVert in Taiwan where naturally he was a monster draw.

“He’s like Michael Jordan over there,” said LeVert who averaged 8.2 points and 21.7 minutes in 57 games last season.

LeVert, the most asked about Nets player when other teams call to talk trade, is one of the young (23 next week) cornerstones the franchise hope to build upon. They’re hoping to move past possibly the worst trade ever — getting $100,000 for Babe Ruth looks like a steal for the Red Sox in comparison to the Nets deal that basically gave the Celtics first-round picks for life.

Part of that process was a gamble, dealing Thaddeus Young for the rights to LeVert, picked 20th by Indiana in 2016.

One of the pieces LeVert is excited about is D’Angelo Russell, acquired from the Lakers in the deal for Lopez. Russell, 21, was the No. 2 pick in 2015.

“He can really pass, really score, has a really high IQ,” LeVert said. “He wants to win more than people give him credit for. I know he has a lot of people to prove wrong. I know he will prove a lot of people wrong.”

Add it up and it’s why LeVert sees playoffs.

“I honestly don’t really care what other people have to say,” he said. “We know the pieces we have, the pieces we’ve added. And we’re really excited.”