06-20-2026, 04:17 PM
The new lottery rules make it so that teams that treadmill around the 8th seed aren't in the worst place to be anymore. So teams with franchise players that guarantee some success even when carrying really bad rosters like the old Dirk Mavs or KG Twolves probably will get some decent draft picks at some point. Mavs will control their picks again soon enough and I don't think Flagg will be in that Dirk-like situation where the picks flowing in are so bad the roster is junk.