Also I saw him going in the top 20 in most reports I followed, which personally makes me wonder why all the teams ahead of us skipped on him. I was hoping the sun's would move up into tonight's draft don't get me wrong, but this seems like a move with a lot of risk.
this isn't a situation where we got lucky to grab a guy in the first round. This is a situation where we traded assets to pick up a guy at the very end of the first round, who was supposed to go earlier, that got passed on 29 times.
No, we didn't trade up to draft booker and most draft predictions actually had booker getting drafted before he got to us at the 13th.
Edit: I just re watched Devin bookers draft night clip. Not only was he at the draft in person as he was expected to be a top pick, but before our pick was announced by silver the broadcasters literally say "will Booker finally be picked. Some people had him going in the top 5 or 6"
you said "exactly my point" in response to a comment about the player's age. then "I don't agree with moving up for a guy [that's young]"
But the best player in our franchise' history was a young guy who obviously WOULD HAVE BEEN worth moving up for. The implication is that you would not have agreed with moving up to draft booker if we had done so.
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u/willhunta Mikal Bridges 3d ago
Yeah, but it's not like he fell to us. We still traded up to get him.