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Originally Posted by molson
A while ago I was killing time looking at the careers of NBA draft picks outside the top 15. The odds of hitting on something productive at that point are minuscule. Every year there's so much discussion of the potential of late draft picks and even un-drafted guys on summer league rosters and the G-League. But they truly are long-shot lottery tickets. Of course, the Knicks are in the top 15 most of the time.
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It's worse when you look at the players they've drafted and then jettisoned. You can probably argue they are pretty much in the middle of the pack for drafting, they just do an absolutely awful job getting rid of those picks to fail to compete or muddle forward without a plan.
At a glance over the last 15 years or so:
Nene
Ariza (never knew he was a Knicks pick or second rounder)
Channing Frye
David Lee
Wilson Chandler
Gallinari
Jordan Hill
Shumpert
Tim Hardaway Jr.
Porzingis
Not an all-NBA team by any means, but some useful players they've dumped along the way and the Porzingis deal is another huge strike out if they can't actually attract any FA with the cap space they freed up.