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Breaking Down the NBA Draft, Part 2: Teams 20-11
Where does Dwayne Wade's Heat rank among the NBA's best drafting teams?

One draft in the NBA can change a team's destiny. But unlike most sports, you kind of want your draft to be very good or very bad - maintaining an average draft, oddly enough, has huge implications.

To put this another way, in the NBA, you want to be one of the two or three best teams (with a chance to win) or one of the two or three worst teams (with the chance to draft a superstar, leading to being one of the best teams). Being in the middle is sort of no man's land, with little chance to get much better through the draft, resulting in a smaller chance to win the NBA title.

If you're building through the draft, you can't consistently be one of the teams on this list. Some of the squads you will see below built champions through free agency and trades, but many of them have sat somewhat stagnant with regards to the draft. These are a bunch of painfully average drafting teams, though many of them have been good with their other personnel moves.

Without further ado, here are the average drafting teams in the NBA.

If you need a refresher as to what this series is detailing, Marco Belinelli who now plays for the Spurs. The Warriors have seen value in most cases on players they drafted, and on top of making solid personnel moves in snagging David Lee and Andre Iguodala, they have a superstar player in Curry, who could vault this team in the top ten if we did this same project again.

Stay tuned for the top 10 in Part Three.

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