The Orlando Magic are hunkered down in their draft room with two weeks to go. Mandatory Credit: Patrick Gorski-USA TODAY Sports
The NBA Draft and the discussion around it can sometimes get over-complicated.
What the design of the whole draft process is meant to do is to help teams bring in new talent. They are all trying to get the best players they can. They want to make their teams better. An injection of young talent is meant to improve the team’s long-term prospects as they grow and improve and help slide in with the team.
It is all the other considerations that complicate things — ranking players in tiers or on a big board, trading up and down, considering how players fit into the existing roster and everything else.