Awful article to be honest, bad reasoning, bad analysis and just unflavoured discussion of the draft picks.

The Warriors draft pick is wrong, saying that the Spurs never drafted a bad player is sensationalist.

Also just the retrospective of doing just this: "Player A who was at the time ranked worse did better so therefore that draft pick is better" and doing the opposite for worst is just bad journalism to be honest.

Saying that Oden was the worst draft pick just because of him getting hurt is also dumb.

A draft pick should be based on the rankings then, the average census on the player and the jump in numbers and what the team were looking for then plus how the pick impacted the franchise.

What about the Dominique trade where the Jazz ended up not having enough to sign him and having to do a bad trade where they lost a potential franchise player and a high draft pick for 2 role players and a million dollars in cash?

What about Wiley Peck for the Spurs who only played 1 season or Alfredrick Hughes who completely fell through after 1 season as well both being relatively high draft picks in the first round for a team desperately looking for good players to cement their playoff position?

I can definitely see why ESPN is in trouble if this is their best journalistic piece they can churn out of their hot-take machine.