**2024 NBA Draft Thead**

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by KC_Connection

Yes, if he's destined to be a NBA player, this won't change much in the end. However, his path to that will now be a much more difficult one without a guaranteed multi-million dollar contract to fall back on. And if he ends up being a scrub after all a few years down the road, it's gonna hurt.

Yup.

Those are the guys that are hurt by slides - the guys that just aren't very good. In which case it wasn't really a slide - it was NBA teams being smarter than Stephen A Smith or whoever else did a mock draft that day.

And ultimately if he IS a scrub, going back to KU wasn't going to help him. Might have even hurt him going into a tougher draft next season WITHOUT as much promise as of the unknown. Right now you can say "Hey, maybe he becomes an NBA player someday" but if he goes back to KU next season and disappoints, you probably know he can't. And now you're looking at a post-draft contract in the G-League.