If you're good enough to get top NIL money as a college player you're good enough to play overseas for some amount of time and then transition into working in basketball.
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It’s just an important indicator for me, so I’m happy that others are talking about it too
The only team in the lottery that has never had the #1 pick is the Jazz. You could argue they have negative #1 picks considering the Magic Johnson fiasco.
The NBA ****ing owes us. Especially with the push-off/5-point swing fiasco. Especially considering the highest they’ve ever drafted is a pick they had to immediately trade (Dominique Wilkins). The Jazz have done everything on hard mode the entire time.
If part of the idea of the lottery to sometimes punish teams that don’t compete and aren’t competent while sometimes rewarding teams that do things the right way, name a franchise in the lottery with a better organizational track record for competence and competing.
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David Hume
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New Orleans sold it, not Utah, so we are off the hook for that fiasco.
Losing Interest
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I may be wrong, but I believe Wilkins was another black player that didn't want to play in Utah and kinda forced Utah's hand.
They didn’t sell it. They signed a free agent from the Lakers (Gail Goodrich) that triggered owing a pick to LA.
(This is a cautionary tale about unintended consequences in policy; if you don’t design it well enough, it backfires. We should ponder this when we talk about flattening lottery odds.)
David Hume
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Yes, you are correct.
In this big board they have Beringer and Wolf going 20/21. It made me think about how different they are as prospects.
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2025 NBA Draft Big Board: How the Class Ranks After the Entry Deadline
Plus, team fits for the players in the lottery, notes on first-round prospects and other second-round names to watch.
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I was reviewing my big board and had brazenly put Tugler at 30. I looked it up and he is going back to school, now I need a new #30 to complete my first round.
Post it coward
Ok:
Flagg
Harper
Kas
VJ
Tre
Ace
Fland
Philon
Kon
Traore
Fears
Khaman
Queen
Jace
Sorber
CMB
Fleming
McNeeley
Demin
Bryant
Noe
Asa
Wolf
Clifford
Clayton
Saraf
Hugo
Pettiford
Yaxel
Proctor (newly added)
Basketball Novice
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Is everyone throwin down their boards?
There are a bunch of guys I haven't watched but from the ones I have watched at least a little bit of:
1.) Flagg
2.) Harper
3.) Queen
4.) Tre
5.) Essengue
6.) Beringer
7.) Clayton Jr.
8.) VJ
9.) Jakucionis
10.) Clifford
11.) Kon
12.) CMB
13.) Bryant
14.) Fleming
15.) Jase
16.) Fears
17.) Asa
18.) Wolf
19.) Philon
20.) Saraf
21.) Yang
22.) Hugo
23.) Ace
24.) Traore
25.) Sorber
26.) Maluach
27.) Byrd
28.) McNeeley
29.) Demin
Subject to changes as I get more familiar with prospects.
There are a bunch of guys I haven't watched but from the ones I have watched at least a little bit of:
1.) Flagg
2.) Harper
3.) Queen
4.) Tre
5.) Essengue
6.) Beringer
7.) Clayton Jr.
8.) VJ
9.) Jakucionis
10.) Clifford
11.) Kon
12.) CMB
13.) Bryant
14.) Fleming
15.) Jase
16.) Fears
17.) Asa
18.) Wolf
19.) Philon
20.) Saraf
21.) Yang
22.) Hugo
23.) Ace
24.) Traore
25.) Sorber
26.) Maluach
27.) Byrd
28.) McNeeley
29.) Demin
Subject to changes as I get more familiar with prospects.
I'm trying to make one but I'm coward
Basketball Novice
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Haha, its boring if everyone's board is the same so I went more with my gut. Even the experts get it wrong, surely I can do better then those guys.
Theres just a lot of points where I find it hard to rank players.
