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by Keith Langlois
Web Editor
The Pistons take the No. 8 pick into the NBA draft for the third time in five years. The other two times netted them Brandon Knight in 2011 and Kentavious Caldwell-Pope in '13.
It's a useful guideline to look at the yield of past drafts to gauge what's likely to come from the same slot in the present. Here's a better one, though: look at everybody who was available at that slot and figure out why some players who've outperformed their draft position did so.
The 2011 draft is marking itself as one of the best in years.