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Jontay Porter, Chuma Okeke are risks worth taking for the Pacers

People often struggle with injuries with regards to the draft and how they should impact a prospect’s evaluation. Some look at injuries through a more pessimistic lens and others believe in the phenomenon that is modern medicine. I fall into the latter camp.

Unless a player has a serious injury history, a frame highly susceptible to injuries+injury history or one horrendous injury (Achilles, neck, back, etc.), I am inclined to not let injuries impact my evaluation of a player much. Think of it this way: if I one prospect with an injury is far better than another prospect without an injury, I would rather bet on the better prospect fully recovering than the worse prospect becoming better than the better prospect.