Part of being the No. 1 pick is developing the confidence to make it beyond your belief that anyone else deserves to be the No. 1 pick.
“I wanted to meet with the team that had the number one pick because I feel like I’m the number one pick,” Cade Cunningham said after coming to Detroit to meet with Pistons coaches and executives last week. “If the (Houston) Rockets get the number one pick, then maybe I’ll meet with them if there’s enough time.”
Cunningham is almost universally expected to go No. 1 and that pick belongs to the Pistons after they won the NBA draft lottery five weeks ago, the first time in 14 tries since the lottery’s 1985 inception that the franchise moved up – and the first time the Pistons will draft No.