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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 3243598, member: 289"]
With so few positions really open and a new class of American and of foreign players becoming available each year, I have never understood why the NBA drafts on potential. You'd think they would be looking for players who can help them immediately. I guess the answer is that there aren't many players who could and once you get past the lottery picks you are "taking a flyer" on anybody. The very fact that so few positions are open means that they are not dependent on those players they are taking a flyer on to become good NBA players. If they don't, they will see what happens with the next group.

The draft emphasis on potential makes it look to the players like the NBA team will make a commitment to developing their skills when in fact they are like cards in a poker game. They are just taking you in case you are one of the few who get a real chance and develop quickly. if not, you will be discarded, (which is no doubt the derivation of the word).

I think it still behooves young players to maximize their skills before presenting themselves to the NBA to maximize their chances of actually making it in the league. But they all see themselves as stars and they all think the money being offered them is close to infinite because their families have never seen that much before or anything close to it. So bye-bye and in a couple of years you'll be playing in Turkey or New Zealand. I hope you like it there.
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