What would happen if we gave NBA general managers a weirdly specific, five-year-only time machine? I would like to think that they would go back in time to correct their worst personnel mistakes, though it’s also possible we create a Back to the Future situation and kick off some kind of gambling scandal instead.
If GMs did use the time machine for the right reasons though, how different would the NBA landscape look right now? Well, we’d have to start at the 2011 draft, which featured plenty of future All-Stars, as well as a number of bad players who were selected before great ones.