The reason why the NBA league can have such a strong vitality is largely because it has a good "circular mechanism", and the core factor that maintains this system is the draft, and the worse the team in the same year, the more likely it is to get a higher ranking in the next year, so as to obtain those high-potential players to change the fate of the team. For example, the Golden State Warriors have succeeded by drafting, and in 2009, 11 years, and 12 years, they selected Curry, Thompson, and Green, respectively, laying the cornerstone of the team's development in one fell swoop and becoming the most successful team in the 21st century.
However, not all teams have the eyesight and luck of the Warriors, such as the team we are going to introduce today, they have a total of 15 high-level players in the past 16 years, but they have all been smashed on the hands, and they have changed the fate of the team so far. No mistake, they're the Sacramento Kings!
In 2006, the team officially entered the reconstruction period: In the early 21st century, the Kings were the Lakers' most powerful competitors, but after Webb and Pegastojakovic separated, the team slowly went downhill, the 05-06 season was the last season when the Kings won more than 50% of the regular season, and then the team gradually entered the reconstruction period, in the first round of 2006, the 19th pick team chose Quincy Duby, and then Dolby played only 3 seasons in the NBA and then he became a CBA star.
2007-2016 Season Draft: Dolby with the 19th pick did not play out of forgiveness, after all, the 19th pick did not even count in the lottery area, but in the later decade, the Kings really picked the eye, in 2007 the 10th pick selected Spencer Hawes, the 12th pick in 2008 selected Jason Thompson, these two big men are high and low, playing and playing is no shadow, in 2009 the Kings did earn a wave, the first round of the 4th pick Tyrick. Evans managed to win the season's best rookie, but he didn't escape the rookie-peak cycle, leaving the Kings after the rookie contract. In 2010, the 5th overall pick team selected another star player Cousins, and the later story goes without saying, Cousins became the absolute cornerstone of the team, but under his leadership, the team went all the way down, Cousins in the Kings' seven years of statistics brushed very well, but the playoffs were not played.
Fredette was selected with the 10th pick in 2011 (swapped with the Bobcats) and Thomas Scott with the 5th pick in the 2012 first round. Robinson, Ben McLemore with the 7th pick in the first round in 2013, Nick Stauskas with the 7th pick in the 7th pick in the first round in 2014, Willie Cowley-Stein with the 6th pick in 2015, and Markis Chris with the 8th pick in 2016, these six years of the draft were too deadly for the Kings, and such a high pick pick selected most of the players who could not stand in the NBA, and the luck of this draft is too back. But thanks to the Kings' talent output to the CBA, Fredette has once again become an insoluble killer in our league since Dolby.
2017 season - so far: In recent years, the Kings have finally realized that what they lack is a core defender, so they chose Darlon Fox with the 5th pick in the first round of 2017, which is also a rookie that the Kings can use at present and is not a bad rookie for the time being, but this year Fox has regressed a lot, from last year's average of 25.2 points per game to 20.3 points, and then continue to follow in the footsteps of Eric Evans.
Marvin was selected with the second overall pick in 2018. Bagley, this is also God's operation, the 18-year rookie success rate is extremely high, Bagley is the worst rookie in the lotto area, and now the Kings are not going to give him a chance; the Kings do not have the first-round pick in 2019, and the 12th pick in the first round of 2020 selected Harry Burton, which seems to be barely used at present, but this season's performance is not as good as the rookie season; the 9th pick in the first round of 2021 selected Davidine. Mitchell, now seems to be a defensive tip, but there is also a lot of uncertainty about the future.
In summary, in the past fifteen years, the Kings have selected a total of 15 high-ranking players, but the only player who is really the core combat force at present is Fox, and Fox is not currently famous, lamenting that the vision of the Kings management is too poisonous.