Jonathan Zaslow
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I don't know.
It's tough to say that.
Maybe that would have ruined the chemistry.
Maybe they wouldn't have traded for Rasheed Wallace that year because they had Carmelo.
It's tough to know.
Wenbanyama will absolutely be in this conversation.
And while that's a pretty good run right there of No.
1 overall picks—
I think by far the weakest there is Zion.
And not that he's not a good player, but you're the number one overall pick, and they haven't even won a playoff series.
That's horrible.
Forget about winning a championship.
They're terrible every single year.
In that sense, Zion's been a bust.
Really, really bad draft.
Very, very bad draft.
It's unfortunate for the Hawks that the year they win, they weren't the worst team in the league.
They jumped.
They won the lottery.
And in a year that they win the lottery, it's just a unanimous dud of a draft.