Most of the rankings and Big Boards you see for the 2022 NBA Draft will be compiled with no particular team in mind. They are helpful in the abstract, to try and rank players according to their actual value and determine their median value to all 30 teams, but in reality they are functionally useless to any one team. The Cavs can’t draft off of a generic big board. Each team has to make a ranking for their own team, taking into account the context of the players on their roster. Rebuilding teams should lean into a more generic board in determining the best players available, but they can’t ignore the players on their team in doing so. Contending teams do something similar, as they don’t necessarily have holes to fill in the draft but instead are drafting for talent.
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