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Originally Posted by DJ's left nut

Eh.

He wasn't even a consensus top 20 pick and I rarely heard him considered as a lottery guy.

Hard to call it a 'free fall'. Nothing beyond pick 12-14 really makes much difference anyway. They're all dart tosses. You'll see teams trade a late 1st for a couple seconds then trade the seconds for cash considerations with some regularity. Literally amounts to selling their late 1st.

He reportedly had a promise in the top 20, which is why he stayed in the draft in the first place. Falling out of the 1st is potentially gonna cost him millions (particularly when he could have stayed at KU and very well have been a lottery guy next year with some improvement).