A team-by-team analysis suggests some clubs will improve overnight while others won’t see returns for a few years (if ever)
There may be no bigger gamble than the NBA draft: a four-hour procession of tall, young men with impossibly long arms, long on potential and short on certainty. No one with any credibility can say with assuredness that any team “won” or “lost” Thursday’s draft at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center. Most of the top players picked have five months of college careers and a handful of empty-gym workouts to show the teams who selected them.
This draft might well have the next Kobe Bryant or Stephen Curry, but it probably doesn’t. It will likely be remembered for producing some good players with careers lasting 10 years. It also will have several more players who land in the G League sometime next winter.
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