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496 sats \ 23 comments \ @grayruby 26 Jun Stacker_Sports freebie

Draft Day

The first round of the 2024 NBA draft takes place tonight. This is not pegged to be a notable draft and hasn't gotten the hype of previous drafts but it is always great to see young men have their dreams come true.

Even though it is not supposed to be a great draft, I am sure there will be at least a few guys who become notable NBA players.

In honour of the draft, I was looking back at some of the biggest hits and misses in recent drafts and the most notable one was Nikola Jokic being drafted 41st overall in 2014. Some teams missed on him twice that draft. Ouch. This was a big hit for Denver and a miss for every other team.

So, shill me your biggest hits and misses from the last decade of drafts. Sats for all of them, and extra sats for ones that make me say "damn that was a steal" or "ouch that was a bust".

Sats for all, GR

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91 sats \ 1 reply \ @StillStackinAfterAllTheseYears 26 Jun

The Suns drafting Bender and Jackson in back-to-back years at the #4 spot has to be pretty high up there in terms of busts.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @grayruby OP 26 Jun

Ouch. Back to back misses when you have a top 5 pick is costly.

121 sats \ 11 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Jun

Past 10 years you say. Feast your eyes on these 1st round gems:

2016: 14th Karl Joseph (safety) 2017: 24th Gareon Conley (CB) 2019: 4th Clelin Ferrell (DE) 2019: 27th Johnathan Abram (safety) 2020: 12th Henry Ruggs (WR) 2020: 19th Damon Arnette (CB) 2021: 17th Alex Leatherwood (OT) 2023: 7th Tyree Wilson (DE)

69 sats \ 8 replies \ @grayruby OP 26 Jun

How did we get onto Raiders drafts? I thought we were talking NBA draft. Haha.

Any chance to slag your Raiders huh?

By the way Clelin Ferrell was the 49ers 2nd best DE last year. He had a really good year. Still not worth a 4th pick but he is a run stuffing madman. Unfortunate that they couldn't keep him.

50 sats \ 7 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Jun

You didn't specify NBA Draft hits and misses. If you bring up draft misses with me, my brain goes straight to the Raiders.

For basketball, Giannis was also a huge hit. Ayton and Bagley were huge whiffs in 2018 with Luka and Trae on the board.

42 sats \ 6 replies \ @grayruby OP 26 Jun

Bagley. Ouch. At least Ayton looked liked he was going to be something before dropping off.

50 sats \ 5 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Jun

How many titles would Steph, Klay, Draymond, Luka, and KD have won?

42 sats \ 4 replies \ @grayruby OP 26 Jun

All.

50 sats \ 3 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Jun

Even 2019?

42 sats \ 2 replies \ @grayruby OP 26 Jun

That's interesting because KD got hurt. Would Luka have been enough of a factor in his first playoffs to overcome the KD loss? Hmmm tough one.

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51 sats \ 1 reply \ @Bell_curve 26 Jun

Ruggs was so fast 💨

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 26 Jun

Yep and now he's in jail for being so fast.

50 sats \ 8 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

Anthony Bennett was 2013, so that's 11 years ago, outside of your 10 year window. But you can't not mention his name when you talk about NBA draft bust.

21 sats \ 7 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Jun

Is he still playing for the national team?

Yeah, it was definitely unfortunate that he got so hyped. I think it weighed on him his whole career. He probably would have been a decent role player if he was drafted mid first round but because he was drafted first overall he was expected to be an all star.

50 sats \ 6 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

I'm not sure, but I feel we have so much young talent on the national team, we don't really need him anymore.

21 sats \ 5 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Jun

If everyone plays.

What did you think of the Raps pick last night. I don't know much about him.

50 sats \ 4 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

I don't know much about Walter either.

Found his wikipedia page and had a quick read, seems like a pretty good high school and college player, although he was only in Baylor for 1 year. Don't know how he will transition into the NBA. Time will tell.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ja'Kobe_Walter

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @grayruby OP 27 Jun

Hopefully a good shooter.

They extended Barnes and they need to pay IQ, probably not much cap space left after that but they could move some things around. Do you think they will add any notable pieces this offseason?

50 sats \ 2 replies \ @gnilma 27 Jun

I don't think they will make big moves in the off season because Barnes still need time to develop and get better. Our window to win isn't here yet, so I think they will keep developing and tweaking this group for a few seasons to see what they can do and get them more ready to win before making big moves.

Of course I can be completely wrong given Masai being the unpredictable genius that he is.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @grayruby OP 27 Jun

This would make sense especially since the gap between the Raptors and say the top 5 in the east is pretty steep. I don't think they are one piece away from being contender so reaching now to get a play in spot doesn't make sense.

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