As you may notice, both the Mock Draft (updated on 2019-11-04) and Big Board (updated on 2019-10-02) were updated on 2019 to reflect the actual 2018 NBA draft order. Can we please stop with this revisionist history?https://www.nbadraft.net/players/marvin-bagley/
Bagley ranked #2 overall by a well trusted nba mock draft website.
As you may notice, both the Mock Draft (updated on 2019-11-04) and Big Board (updated on 2019-10-02) were updated on 2019 to reflect the actual 2018 NBA draft order. Can we please stop with this revisionist history?
Thanks for the research Cap'n. I'm going off memory but I was sure they had Bags mocked at #2 at the time of the draft.While I absolutely visit the site, I don't really regard nbadraft.net as "well trusted" - sometimes I think they've got a screw loose.
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Regardless of what they may have done in terms of updating their 2018 mock draft post-hoc to match the real draft, it does appear that they did have Bagley in the #2 slot for much of the 2017-2018 mock draft year.
For instance, here's a internet archive hit on Bagley's page from June 2 2018 (so 3-4 weeks before the draft) that shows he was mocked at #2
https://web.archive.org/web/20180602082905/http://www.nbadraft.net/players/marvin-bagley
To reassure you that somehow this page that was archived before the draft didn't somehow get updated later, here's an internet archive hit from December 4 2017 showing Bagley in the #1 spot on the mock:
https://web.archive.org/web/20171204213356/http://www.nbadraft.net/players/marvin-bagley
I looked for archived versions of the mock itself, but there don't seem to be any of the 2018 draft from the time of the draft - my guess is that they changed the URL of the mock draft pages sometime after 2018 and that if one knew what the URL was back in 2018, one could find archives of the full mock. Nonetheless, for looking at where they had Bagley mocked, the Bagley page will suffice. And I didn't look through every hit (there are a bunch), but it looks like they basically had him mocked at #1/#2 all year.
The way I remember it, Ayton and Luka were the consensus top two picks; it was just a matter of who went first.
The way I remember it, Ayton and Luka were the consensus top two picks; it was just a matter of who went first.
I think I remember something about there being bad blood between Vlade and Luka's father from their playing days in Europe. Does anyone know more about that?
I honestly believe this is the real reason he didn't draft Luka
Love Vlade but it was as bad of a pick as Nick Stauskas, Thomas Robinson, and the classic…Never nervous Pervis Ellison if anyone here remembers that fiasco.View attachment 12823
The worst GM by a mile. Not mentioning Doncic, that draft talent pool was so deep, he could have drafted Mikal Bridges, SGA, Michael Porter Jr, Jalen Brunson, Trae Young, or even Kevin Hueter over Marvin freaking Bagley III.
Love Vlade but it was as bad of a pick as Nick Stauskas, Thomas Robinson, and the classic…Never nervous Pervis Ellison if anyone here remembers that fiasco.