It was a bone of contention for many who followed the Milwaukee Bucks back at the time, and has been the source of frequent speculation ever since.
When the Bucks selected Rashad Vaughn with the 17th pick of the 2015 NBA Draft, it came as a bolt out of the blue. Most draft big boards and mock drafts didn’t have Vaughn projected to go before the very late portions of the first, and coming off of a mediocre freshman year that had been hit with injury; it wasn’t hard to understand why.
Milwaukee’s decision to take him was subsequently a source of raised eyebrows, as even evidenced by our own Ti Windisch’s focus on Portis in his instant reaction piece on draft night.