Sactown Royalty · May 20, 2015
Historic or Hysteric? A Look Inside the NBA's #6 Draft Pick
Jan Vesely was selected with the sixth pick of the 2011 draft. I bring this up for no real reason. - Geoff Burke-USA TODAY SportsGood players can be found virtually anywhere in the draft lottery. Heck, great players can be found anywhere in the draft lottery. Hall of Fame players, though much harder to come by, can be found almost anywhere in the draft lottery. Certainly, the higher you pick, the greater the odds that you will land a good/great player. But a higher pick does not assure you that you will avoid a bust, and a lower pick is not a guarantee that your player will be bench fodder.
Let's take a look at the last twenty five years, first in handy-dandy chart form: