Oftentimes with international prospects it can be harder to know. Giannis Antetokounmpo was MVP in his sixth season, confounding the scouts who remember a stringy, poor shooting forward who played in a second-tier Greek league. Nikola Jokic was a pudgy pivot with a limited offensive game when the Nuggets took him with the 41st pick in 2014; five years later, he is the league’s most complete center. Plenty of other seemingly surefire foreigners have flamed out, their talent lost in translation to the NBA. Think Czech forward Jan Veselý, chosen sixth by the Wizards in 2012, who averaged 3.
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