2026 NBA draft thread

[dirkfansince1998]

To me, this would objectively mean they reached. That would be the end of the story for me if it were any of our prior FO's. However, since we know Masai and Schmitz are quite competent, it will be a state of a very skeptical "wait and see" for me if any of those happen. What strikes me more than anything else about it is, if you wanted any of those lesser-touted players, why the flying eff didn't you trade down and get some more assets?

Because you have no guarantee that other teams also aren't higher on them. If a player is in lottery range it's not a big reach to assume that some teams might be even higher on player x/y/z than others.