So, I was a huge fan of the trade-up from #3 to #1. People can pretend all they want, but the facts are the facts, and those facts are everywhere on the web, as well as burned into the brains of Process Trusters like me who were there: Markelle Fultz was viewed as being on another level as a player from everyone else in the 2017 draft. It was not just the consensus view, it was the near-universal view. And moreover such views on point guards and combo guards have basically no history of being wrong. Look at the PG-types taken #1 in the past 40 years of NBA history; it’s Kyrie, Wall, Iverson, Ben, Rose, Magic, every one a major star, either for life or until derailed by injury like Rose.
Markelle Fultz, Jayson Tatum and the Sacramento Pick
