Yeah I agree with this strategy. Keep adding talent and use it to eventually bring in a 2nd or 3rd star player. The problem with tanking in the draft is first its very difficult to get an MVP level talent. But even if you do strike gold with one, you have to surround them with a few other studs to keep your MVP on the roster long term. Cleveland stunk for a decade and landed LeBron, but he instantly made them a playoff team and they were never able to bring him an acceptable sidekick. Same thing with Chris Paul and the Hornets, Chris Bosh and the Raptors. What the Thunder have done is extraordinary rare because when you get an MVP level player normally the team immediately will be at least a fringe playoff team and no longer able to add studs in the draft. I would rather look at a franchise like Phoenix, they have built multiple quality playoff rosters over the last few decades with very few quality lottery picks.
