According to reports, in the past week, a total of 6 top 10 players in the draft have been cut by their teams.
These include: Jabari Parker with the 2nd overall pick in 2014 and Jalil Okafo with the 3rd pick in 2015, among others.
Now look back at the draft for the class of 2016, many of them were already mainstays of the league.
In leagues where the average career is only 4-5 years, it is not a high-ranking rookie who can be once and for all.
If you want to talk about the current excellent defender representatives, Jamal Murray is naturally one of them.
Especially in the 2019-2020 playoffs, the last laugh was scored in the first round of the match with Mitchell.
Averaging 31.6 points, 5.6 rebounds and 6.3 assists in seven games, he has shown the edge of the league's new generation of guards.
Even if he is as strong as Murray, he can only rank 7th in the 2016 draft, and there is a defender before him, he is Chris Dunn.
With a height of 1.91 meters and an arm span of 2.07 meters, Dunn has an excellent figure for an NBA guard.
His strengths are also what underpinned his ability to be selected with the fifth pick: he was explosive, offensively strong and passing, and he handled the ball well.
His shortcomings are shoulder injuries in college, and the number of free throws and turnovers is a bit high, but these are not really a thing.
The difficulty is that the fifth pick was selected by the Timberwolves, and the rookie season is often pressed on the bench, and sometimes I really want to lament how many high-ranking rookies wolves have wasted.
Fortunately, just a year later, Dunn was traded to the Bulls by Wolves, and the Chicago defender got more opportunities.
From 3.8 points per game to 13.4 points, when I thought everything was going in a good direction, the injury came.
Minor sprains of the medial collateral ligament were followed by strains, and a few games were played, which also made Dunn's playing time extremely unstable.
Slowly in the Bulls, his performance plummeted.
Looking at the same year's Champions Simmons, Ingram, Tanhua Brown and others, they have already gained a firm foothold in the league.
This was once the strongest defender of that class, but regretted to fall to his knees in front of the unlucky.
5 years and 3 teams, perhaps Dunn's last memory, are missing where to stop after being cut by the Grizzlies.
Injuries slowly take away his explosiveness, which is undoubtedly fatal for such a defender with the ball.
Just quit the NBA? He was really a little reluctant.