Sacramento Kings
Orlando Magic
Detroit Pistons
Phoenix Suns
Cleveland Cavaliers
Charlotte Hornets
Washington Wizards
Minnesota Timberwolves
New York Knicks
Just because you have high drafts picks all of the time doesn’t guarantee a damn thing.
You want to hear the players these teams drafted in the lottery and most of these guys were the top-10 over a decade?
Thomas Robinson
Ben McLemore
Nik Stauskas
WIllie Callie-Stein
Marquese Chriss
Marvin Bagley
Victor Oladipo
Aaron Gordon
Mario Hezonja
Jonathan Issac
Mo Bamba
Greg Monroe
Brandon Knight
Andre Drummond
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Stanley Johnson
Luke Kennard
Killian Hayes
Kendall Marshall
Alex Len
Dragan Bender
Josh Jackson
Jalen Smith
Dion Waiters
Anthony Bennett
Colin Sexton
Isaac Okoro
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
Cody Zeller
Noah Vonleh
Frank Kaminsky
Malik Monk
Jan Vesley
Otto Porter
Troy Brown
Rui Hachimura
Deni Avidja
Corey Kispert
Wesley Johnson
Derrick Williams
Kris Dunn
Kristaps Porzingis
Frank Ntilikina
Kevin Knox
Hell look at our lottery picks:
Enes Kanter
Alec Burks
Trey Burke
Dante Exum
Trey Lyles
Your turn.
Great work… except Suns have been to the finals… Cavs have won a title and been in the finals like 4 times. Wiz have been a playoff team 5 last 9 years.
Leaves the Kings, Magic, Knicks, Pistons, Hornets, and Wolves. Let’s take the Kings, Pistons, Hornets… these are teams that didn’t really try hard to tank and engaged in chasing the 8 seed… even though the Kings still had high picks they were generally trying to make the playoffs… they also had golden opportunities to draft Luka and Kawhi or Klay and came away with Bagley and Stauskus… they also have away the 10th pick and a pick swap that cost them a chance to draft Tatum instead of Fox… they did that to clear space to sign Iggy… that’s a win now move. Had they been tanking or at least acknowledged their place in the nba life cycle they don’t give away Tatum and Mikal Bridges for Fox and the right to sign Rondo and Koufus… so tanking or rebuilding would have been a big benefit.
Pistons hired a coach as GM and he of course did winning moves like trading for Blake’s monstrous contract and giving away multiple picks one that became SGA. They really never lost enough to have a high pick.
Orlando has been really unlucky… in years they moved up the draft sucked… but they also could have moved on from Vooch Fournier Gordon earlier to stop chasing the 8 seed.
Knicks are another team that doesn’t really tank. They try to win and it leaves them drafting later in the lotto… they also sign win now pieces that are mediocre because they are impatient. They also haven’t drafted well.
Wolves have sucked… hornets have sucked… it doesn’t always work… there are a lot of ways to fail.
None of these teams really stacked the deck by adding a bunch of picks to help with the rebuild. Many did short sighted moves to chase the 8 seed… basically what we are going to do.
To be continued… just one moment.