I don’t know about you, but with that figure in the loss column ever-increasing over the first 17 games for the Spurs, I must admit I was starting to flirt with the number one pick in the upcoming draft. The Spurs were 4 and 13 after 17 games before their current three-game winning streak, roughly on pace to finish 20 and 62 — which they did in 1997 when then got the number one pick. In other words, when they got Tim Duncan.
Chances are though, there isn’t a Duncan-caliber play in the upcoming draft. After all, the number of drafts that have taken place, 75, vastly outweighs the number of players who can legitimately be considered better than Duncan.