Yes you are more likely to get an all star with a top five pick. But the point is intentionally losing to accumulate several top picks that may become all stars is not the only way to build a winning playoff team, it is just the only way you, and others, seem to be willing to acknowledge. Of the teams in the playoffs now, Utah, LA, Denver, Milwaukie, and Brooklyn have no players that they themselves drafted in the top five. Atlanta, Philly, and Phoenix do. For Atlanta, they found success with one top five pick, Trae, once they surrounded him with good players and made a coaching change. Philly is the poster child for process fans, but they had several misses, are not yet a finished product, and would be hard to emulate with the changes to lottery odds. Phoenix has Aayton, but their best players were drafted with the 13th pick (Booker), 10th pick (Bridges), and acquired via trade (Paul). Golden State would be an outlier if all other successful teams followed one set recipe. But they don't. There are several approaches to team building. Successful teams that compete for championships are essentially a collection of team building outliers. It is fine to have a preferred strategy or direction that you believe the Kings should follow. But anyone who denies that there are alternatives to what they believe is best is kidding themselves.
