re: Rockets "clear winners" of NBA offseason

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It's been said before, but draft picks are way overvalued by NBA fans. Outside of the top three or five picks in a draft, rarely does a pick become a legit star. Stocking up on draft picks is for losers because teams aren't going to duplicate what SA and OKC have done. If you have a chance to get a proven, young commodity, you take it.

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Exactly.

The Pelicans basically paid money to avoid the risk and guess-work of the draft process.

They drafted Davis and traded for Gordon, Anderson, Evans and Holiday. If they'd managed to draft those guys in some combination, Demps would be looked at as some draft genius. What doesn't it matter if they didn't actually draft them? They're there. And if they did actually work out as draft picks, you'd have to pay them eventually. Ask OKC.

Plus if this whole thing goes to shite, guys get injured, whatever, they still keep their pick if its top 5.