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Message: [QUOTE="Scottobot, post: 5174827, member: 12452"] The first round of NBA draft is mostly guys who were ranked by scouts out of high school as top 15 players, and young foreign players who are ranked high by scouts. NBA does not care how good you are right now, they just want to draft lotto tickets(ie, young players with high upside). If you are not drafted in first round you will never get a chance to show what you can do unless you get lucky and land on an injury depleted team, or luck into a coach that somehow notices what you can do and is willing to break convention and give a second round player some minutes. Half the NBA teams these days are trying to lose on purpose, and playing an awful player who has high upside, is better than playing someone who is good now and might actually help you win games. All these teams have same road map, lose now and collect a large pool of raw young players, and hope they all magically mature into stars at the same time in the future. [/QUOTE]