The worst thing an NBA team can be is average.
Of the league's 30 teams, 16 make the playoffs. The other 14 are rarely attractive destinations for free agents, so they depend on the Draft to increase their overall talent level.
The problem is most All-Star caliber players, or at least the ones who can make an impact in their first few years, are usually gone after the first five picks.
Teams drafting in the mid-to-late lottery can find themselves running in place for years on end: not bad enough to get a top draft pick and not good enough to make the playoffs.
A bad team with a lot of talented young players, like the Clippers or the Kings, can at least sell hope. But when a franchise is stuck on the "mediocrity treadmill," not winning enough to be interesting and not losing enough to get better, fans quickly become apathetic.
Here is a list of veterans, many of whom have been extremely successful on their current teams, playing on teams going nowhere.
Both the teams, who could commit to a full rebuilding process without the ghosts of past glories holding them back, and the pla ...
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