If every player in the league had to return to the team that drafted him…

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  1. KSF-ERIC

    KSF-ERIC Well-Known Member

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    …Which team would be the best in the league? Undrafted players would return to first team that signed them.
     
    KSF-ERIC, Apr 28, 2022
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    Probably OKC
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Golden State would honestly still be a great team. OKC is up there for sure.
     
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    I mean just for this year I think Kyrie, Garland, Wiggins, LeBron, Mobley with Sexton, Joe Harris, Danny Green, Jae Crowder and Tristan Thompson coming off the bench seems like a pretty hard rotation to beat. That's leaving out Tyus Jones and Okoro who are both quality backups. With all of the guys that like to get shots up maybe Jones would be better in the rotation than Sexton.
     
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    theprunetang Shaedon "Deadly Nightshade" Sharpe is HIM

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    Solid AF
     
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    Cool topic.

    I think NO would be decent.

    Chris Paul, Zion, AD

    Lakers too.

    Lonzo, Russell, Ingram, Kuzma, Zubac, Hart
     
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    I agree about Lakers, Pels, and GS. Not sure I’d believe in OKC. Blazers wouldn’t be terrible with CJ, Trent Jr, Pat C, and Will Barton coming home. Meyers would be our starting C though.
     
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    I’d take Collins over Meyers.
     
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    This shows how shitty our drafts have been
     
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    Lakers would also have Caruso, Clarkson, Randle, Nance. They certainly would be the deepest team, if not the outright best.

    Equally amazing they now have none of these players.
     
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    I feel like we'd be in the top 7 or so. How is that shitty?

    Dame cj batum aldridge trent simons is not nothing.
     
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    Touche
     
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    Aldridge was picked by the Bulls
     
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    well, since Blazers drafted CJ, Blazers had traded away 4 of 7 first round picks for almost nothing. And that doesn't include the disaster in 2017
     
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    I think the intent is where the player started his career. Aldridge never played one day for the bulls.
     
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    2 for Covington, 1 for Nance, what was the other one?
     
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    I wasn't counting the one for Nance, yet

    one was the 2016 draft when Portland traded the 19th pick for Afflalo

    the 2014 draft was the 24th pick that was the final piece of the Greald Wallace trade. So that was part of the down-payment on Dame so it was well spent. Ironically, the pick was used on Shabazz Napier
     
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    2 for the pick that got us Collins.
     
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    Not sure if your serious or sarcastic.

    It's not 2018. Aldridge is washed. Batum is a bit role player. Trent and Simons are fine but that's a team with 4 offensive guards and no defense. I'd rank it among the bottom 7.
     
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