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Drafting Smart Key to Making #22 and #23 Work

The NBA Draft is far more predictable than its counterparts in baseball and the NFL. You can argue that the best players in both sports were late draft picks--Alberto Pujols taken in the 13th round and Tom Brady taken in the sixth. That sort of surprise never happens in the NBA draft. But a smart GM can get talent late in the first round or even the second, as Nenad Krstic shows. NetsDaily takes a look a the draft's last decade to see what might be available for the Nets.