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The Lakers drafted Lonzo when they should of drafted Jayson Tatum
The GSW drafted Wiseman when they should of drafted LaMelo Ball
But despite both teams making these draft night mistakes they subsequently won championships afterwards which is remarkable.
The question arises who would of won multiple titles if they had selected the right player instead? Both of those draft night failures have been sent packing, but im sure management on both sides still regrets these blunders. Who goofed up more Lakers or Warriors

I guess I would go with the Warriors, since Lebron would have sent whoever they drafted to NOLA to get Davis. If the Warriors took Lamelo, they would be in great shape to extend their window a few more years. I don't get the impression that the Warriors are the kind of club that would want to deal with the Ball dad, so I would imagine that had a lot to do with passing on him.

Lakers could not do nothing different, because Lamar SPOKE IT INTO EXISTANCE!

I don't think these are mistakes. Lottery isn't a sure thing and there are so many busts in the top 5/top 10 in the draft every year. A lot of Laker fans wanted Josh Jackson instead of lonzo. If the rumors were true though, Magic should have gotten Fox if he really wanted him. I think an ingram/tatum pairing would have been better than tatum/brown though. And they probably don't trade away dlo either

Can literally do the same thing for every draft for the lakers. A lot of people thought Dlo was a mistake over Porzingis, but probably about even now...and could have had Booker instead. Basically everyone would rather have Simmons over ingram at the draft and first couple of years. Could have had Lavine over Randle

Roy T wrote:Lakers could not do nothing different, because Lamar SPOKE IT INTO EXISTANCE!

Lamar Odom? Lamar Jackson? Kendrick Lamar? We need to know which Lamar holds such power in the Laker Front Office?!?

With the Lakers. It doesn't matter. He'll be with the Pelicans.

Ckay wrote:With the Lakers. It doesn't matter. He'll be with the Pelicans.

Yup they could've drafted anyone, that prospect was going to NOLA. Plus even if they didn't hypothetically trade, Lozno is/was a better talent than Wiseman.

The Warriors and it's not even close.

The Warriors squandered two lottery picks in back-to-back years. I'm counting Kuminga as well because he is just not an NBA caliber player. I watched him the Lakers game last night and it was hard to watch, he's severely limited offensively. Wiseman was so bad the best they could get for him was GP2 in a 4-team trade. Teams wouldn't even offer a 1st rounder for him. I doubt they'll get any significant return for Kuminga as well. I doubt they'll trade him, because doing so will be admitting that you failed miserably. They might be too stubborn.

When you blow two lottery picks, it sets your franchise back years. Those players should've been contributors to their team by now, and because they weren't, the Warriors are getting clobbered with Curry and Klay missing games. They have no depth.

There was value attached to Lonzo - the Lakers got AD as part of a deal. There's no value attached to Wiseman and Kuminga.

Lakers would’ve just traded whoever to the Pelicans and I don’t think Lámelo Ball changes anything for the warriors.

lonzo_pelota wrote:The Lakers drafted Lonzo when they should of drafted Jayson Tatum
The GSW drafted Wiseman when they should of drafted LaMelo Ball
But despite both teams making these draft night mistakes they subsequently won championships afterwards which is remarkable.
The question arises who would of won multiple titles if they had selected the right player instead? Both of those draft night failures have been sent packing, but im sure management on both sides still regrets these blunders. Who goofed up more Lakers or Warriors

*should have

Lamelo with .95TS+ career scoring efficiency and bad defence??? He is young Westbrook. I could imagine how bad our defence would be with Poole, Lamelo, Klay and Curry. No playing time for Payton or DDV, also hurting Poole development. Yes Poole isnt perfect but at least had better efficiency and better player w/o ball on offensive end.

If they had a core of tatum/ingram and kept Dlo. They probably make some noise in Lebron's first year and might wait for AD in free agency instead of trading the farm

SpreeS wrote:Lamelo with .95TS+ career scoring efficiency and bad defence??? He is young Westbrook. I could imagine how bad our defence would be with Poole, Lamelo, Klay and Curry. No playing time for Payton or DDV, also hurting Poole development. Yes Poole isnt perfect but at least had better efficiency and better player w/o ball on offensive end.

It's either LaMelo or Wiseman and you will still go with James? That's not wise, men. If anything, Warriors drafting LaMelo means you won"t pay Poole crapload of money now and you have the future PG of GSW that can play with Steph now or a valuable asset at the very least. Imagine the improvement and experience LaMelo Ball will have playing with the Warriors rather than Hornets.

Warriors and it’s not close. In fact their biggest mistake was drafting anyone at all. They should have traded for win-now guys with Curry in his prime.

The Warriors won a ring when no-one thought they could anymore, why would they give a ****? What difference would LaMelo make? And the Lakers would've still traded Tatum for AD and got a ring.

If the Warriors drafted LaMelo, they would have probably sold high on him by now and got a plethora of picks or contributors for a guy that the rest of the NBA media is going to be a few years behind on realizing he's not worth as much as they received for him.

Lakers drafted Lonzo solely because of the hype. That’s what they go for, “the flash”. If you don’t got it, you’re not considered. For ex. “D-Lo” - a presentable nickname. Brandon Ingram was supposedly the next Durant. They picked up an old dude also named Ingram from the G-League because he can make shots with that weird jumpshot. They got rid of him in exchange for a trophy so it was worth it. If they got Tatum, he likely would have been traded for AD too.

Warriors system had no space for Lamelo. Nor did they want Lavar drama. Culture is important in San Francisco (similar to SA, Miami, etc) and see what Lamelo gets away with at Charlotte?

Both teams made a great choice it seems. Now how about the Kings redeeming that Luka mistake with a Sabonis trade & drafting Keegan Murray? Redemption is on the way if Lakers or Warriors made a mistake. You just made both of them champions again within the next 5 years. California thanks you.

New Orleans are the biggest loser in all of this as they would have gotten Tatum in the AD trade instead of Lonzo's broken ass that they wisely let go for NADA. Lamelo wouldn't have gotten enough burn to put up his empty numbers on the Dubs because he can't guard a pair of hair clippers from his eyebrows let alone an NBA level guard.

Lakers probably wouldn't have picked Tatum anyway. One of the reasons the Celtics were so confident they could sneak Tatum at #3 was because they knew both Philly and LA wanted point guards

Lakers already had a project wing in Ingram from the year before. They were looking at either Lonzo OR Fox.

And Fox would've ended up in New Orleans

The player GS wanted to draft was Haliburton. They wanted to trade down but could not get a deal done. IMO the mistake will be the trade if Wiseman

Playing in a bad team he will put up stats.

https://clutchpoints.com/tyrese-haliburton-thought-he-had-a-chance-of-going-no-2

Who thought warriors made a bad pick.
https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nba/news/nba-draft-2020-team-grades-warriors-hornets-cavaliers/flk8yzf41a4017vi719sojr98