This is how NBA team presidents earn their money. And lose their jobs.
A guy like Thon Maker comes into the draft, all 19 years and 7-feet-1 of him, full of mystery, intrigue and potential, seemingly as likely to be a superstar as a bust. What do you do about a guy like that?
Take him high in the first round, you could wind up looking like the executives who drafted other foreign centers who beamed with promise – guys like Darko Milicic, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Hasheem Thabeet, Frederic Weis and Yinka Dare.
Don't draft him, and you might never live down the time you passed on the next Kevin Garnett.