When you’re a rebuilding team, gathering assets and trying to pinpoint your foundation, while abiding by the BPA, or Best Player Available strategy in the lottery is usually a good idea.
The hope is that by accumulating as much talent as possible, you have a better chance of finding the pillars of your franchise that you can mold and shape your team around. If there’s a logjam at one position, you expect the cream to rise to the top and the situation to work itself out, and in Denver, it has for the last two drafts.
The Nuggets took Emmanuel Mudiay at No.