There are few assets more powerful in the NBA than a No. 1 overall pick. It's so valuable that teams routinely lose intentionally in an effort to get it, and the league has, in turn, changed rules specifically to discourage this sort of behavior. Basketball is a star-driven sport. There are only 10 players on the court at any given time, and one player can impact virtually everything that happens on a given possession. The right draft pick can change an entire franchise.

Sometimes, that draft pick comes at No. 1 overall. Very often, it doesn't. The best player in the NBA , Nikola Jokić, was famously drafted during a Taco Bell commercial. We're on a streak of seven straight years of international MVPs, but the only one of them to be drafted in the top 10 was Joel Embiid . The Indian

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