Finding NBA starters outside of the lottery isn’t easy.
In fact, there are only 15 players taken outside of the top 14 in the last four drafts that have started at least three games this season:
2014: Jusuf Nurkic (16th pick, Portland), Gary Harris (19, DEN), Clint Capela (25, HOU), Bogdan Bogdanovic (27, IND), Rodney Hood (23, CLE) … 212, Joe Harris (33, BKN) and Nikola Jokic (41, DEN).
2015: Bobby Portis (22, CHI), Cedi Osman (31, CLE), Josh Richardson (40, MIA)
2016*: Caris LeVert (20, BKN), Pascal Siakam (27, TOR)
*Dejounte Murray (29, SAS) was set to start before tearing his ACL in preseason
2017*: Jarrett Allen (22), Kyle Kuzma (27), Josh Hart (30)
*Atlanta’s John Collins (19) is expected to start when returning from injury.