(12-10-2025, 07:39 AM)khaled1987 Wrote: The whole "this draft is generational" can be a bit overblown. I've read the same in 2008. 2010, 2012, 2014, 2025 among others.
2014:
DWIGHT POWELL
Jokic
Embiid
Randle
Lavine
Wiggins
Gordon
Grant
Bogdanovic
Smart
Saric
Capela
Nurkic
G. Harris
Anderson
Clarkson
McDermott
Kleber (undrafted)
TJ Warren
Parker and Exum were the busts, but that´s largely been an injury thing. Parker was 20/6/3 shooting 49/37/74 as a 21 year old, when he tore his ACL. Played 161 games over the next five years.
2008 also looks pretty good. Top 7 worked out pretty decent. Beasley had a decent career considering he was high as a kite for all of it. And that Mayo would develop a serious drug addiction is hard to scout. 2025 has shown great early returns.
Feel like mostly these days the busts are more related to injuries or off-court issues than bad basketball skill assessment.