Imagine showing up to register for your first day of school and rather than getting your schedule for the upcoming semester, you’re given a grade despite the fact classes haven’t actually started yet.
That, my friends, is real world equivalent of grading NBA Draft picks.
But unlike giving a student a grade for work not-yet-assigned, let alone completed, there’s no real harm in people who cover the draft extensively making snap judgements on whether a player who has yet to log a second in an NBA game was the right pick for their respective new teams. For as much effort as teams put into their preparation, how well a team performs during the draft still comes down to a lot of guesswork, so there’s no reason to be too harsh on the media for indulging in the same.