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In most cases, the NBA draft is a crapshoot. Unless a team has a pick in the first few selections, there are no guarantees about the NBA potential evolving into NBA talent — and achieving the ultimate goal: championships.
Generally, teams have to have poor records the previous season to get a top pick and that doesn’t lead to immediate team success. The Pistons have been fortunate in their years of drafting to get players who have played a big part of their championship runs in the “Bad Boys” and “Goin’ to Work” eras.