You're missing the point, my friend. ANY team can go through what okc did this year, and unprotected picks are few and far between. Arguing over the odds of any one player being injured is ****ing stupid, because none of us have a crystal ball. I can't tell you how many times fans on this board insisted that there was no way in hell NY would stay bad long enough for that pick to pan out for us, and yet we ended up with Hayward and Paul George as options on draft day. Had we traded it, the value would have been that of late teens/early twenties. Just like you are assuming the value of the GS pick will be 23 at best. You may very well be right, but it's FAR from a given as you are trying to pass it off.
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Also, the last time I argued the value of a GS pick with you was when Utah had a chance to cash in on a high pick, and I argued it would be much worse the next year in a weaker draft. You insisted they would suck and it would be a good pick again, and I think we all know how that turned out.