basketball since the 2007 draft helps explain how this Thursday’s draft is likely to unfold. “There’s no question having a really good point guard is pivotal in today’s game, whereas the center position has probably been a little devalued lately,” Fleisher said. The precise order of those high draft picks matters a great deal, as does good judgment. That draft class was similarly stocked at point guard, with as many as five (depending on how you define them) taken with the first 10 picks that June. With the seventh pick, the Warriors selected what ostensibly should have been the fourth-best point guard, Stephen Curry.

Source: New York Times June 18, 2017 16:02 UTC