If you don't win the lottery

[WhoDatPelican96]

As long as the Bobcats get the 2014 #1 pick..but,truth be told ..the worst team rarely gets the #1 pick. Stern already knows who will get it. Just hoping this team gets Mclemore & Olynyk this draft and Wiggins the next..wont be nobody's joke anymore..

lotto isn't rigged buddy

[CatNation]

lotto isn't rigged buddy

nobody cares

[Bogg]

It's ironic that you use the 2003 draft, because despite the presence of 2 once-in-a-generation prospects scouts were drooling over (Durant eventually became the dude Melo was supposed to be, and it's been interesting watching the narrative switch from one to the other over the years), 2 big men with a ton of upside and skill, it was the 5th overall pick, the junior from a small school, the NCAA warrior, the shooting guard who couldn't shoot, who turned out the be the best draft pick in the past 10 years, and I'm not sure you can even debate that. Really just shows the randomness of the game and how no one can predict the future.

A) Lebron was easily the best player to come out of that draft.

B) Completely throwing Darko out of the conversation(obviously): Wade's better than Bosh, Wade isn't much better than Carmelo if he doesn't have significant help. Even if we agree that Wade is better wired to close out a Finals series, if you stick either of them on a mediocre team all you're getting is pretty regular season stat lines and a first round exit. It's why between winning a championship in Shaq's last great year and Lebron coming to town Miami never saw the second round.

C) Getting Wade at #5 was only the best draft pick of the last decade if you don't recognize that four perennial all-stars were taken in the top five. Any team selecting in the top five that year had an 80% chance of getting a franchise guy.

D) Don't try to turn "Not all drafts are the same, some have better prospects than others" and "This years' draft doesn't have a guy considered an immediate savior" into "Nobody other than sure-fire number 1 picks can be excellent basketball players". That's just disingenuous.

[WhoDatPelican96]

nobody cares

Someone on here implied it was. Blame him.