Scouting the NBA Draft is equal parts art and science. Most potential first-round picks can look promising if you cherry-pick the right Bart Torvik queries, but character, work ethic, injury luck, and team fit always play a vital role in determining how a player’s career will unfold.
Evaluating a draft class tends to bring out plenty of armchair analysts if only because the NBA front offices miss with regularity. Hasheem Thabeet went before Stephen Curry and James Harden in the 2009 draft, DeAndre Ayton and Marvin Bagley III were taken before Luka Doncic in 2018, and James Wiseman was picked before Tyrese Haliburton in 2020. Teams can dedicate millions
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