Yeah but the thing is you and nobody else knows if those guys are going to turn into all stars or superstar players. Or they could be a bust, or just average role players.
The NBA draft and lottery pick players are a crap shoot.
Pau when he got traded to the Lakers was already an established legit allstar caliber player who's career only got better by playing with Kobe and better talent around him.
That's what I don't get about a bunch of NT'ers on this thread. A lot of people have this mindset where they by tanking and building through the draft that automatically going to make the Lakers better and get us back to a championship contending team again.
At least the oppressed and suppressed can finally speak up. I think it's understandable, and we can all make cases about draft picks in the pasts who are now still stars in the league. This is applicable in all sports.
But the truth is, LA never braced for this, and they have always been a franchise that 'brings in' established guys. They would rather 'market' and 'pitch' for a FA, as opposed to 'invest' time into scouting and developing one. This is what I'm getting at. The idea that this 'franchise' doesn't 'draft' or 'develop', makes it that much harder, so simply TANKING and locking up an OBVIOUS pick from the TOP 3 talent pool makes 'OBVIOUS' common sense!!!! The challenge increases when you need to draft prospects at the later rounds aka the 'hidden gems'.
It goes to strengthen the notion that this team NEEDS TO TANK, because they are 'unsure' who to draft if they fall out of the top 5 or 10. I am not for it of course, and I don't get why people encourage it so much. I understand though, given the talent pool and the time to refuel, you're better off drafting guys as opposed to signing dudes. I get it, but still, to have peeps here wishing LA tank every game makes no sense at all.
They play to win.
at even the states initials benefiting him in that endeavor. 
