If You Draft A Player In The 1st Round, They Have to Start

[Illified infinitely]

Nah but they should get significant minutes to see how well they do.

End of the day you can’t expect too many much. There’s like 3-4 of them that never make it past the first season. Half are done after year 3. By year 4 or 5 a good draft will have 4-5 superstars. It’s a crapshoot.

 

[Professor Emeritus]

Darko was the #2 pick. Imagine him starting for Detroit that year.

Hell, even if they had picked Carmelo, it would have been better to keep the starting lineup as was and still bring Carmelo off the bench.

 

[El Bombi]