DANGER ZONE: Can Utah Jazz DEFY the #2 Pick Curse? The Downfalls of Wiseman, Parker, and Bagley

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Utah Jazz face the notorious “curse” of the number two NBA Draft pick—can they rewrite history? David Locke breaks down the troubling track record of the No. 2 pick from 2007 to 2021, revealing why selections like James Wiseman, Marvin Bagley, and Jabari Parker often fell short, especially among big men. Locke’s player value grading shows the No. 2 slot has produced less than half the returns of its neighboring picks, raising pressing questions about scouting and positional bias.

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0:00.0	The number two pick in the NBA draft has a pretty bad history.
0:06.7	How can the jazz avoid the pitfalls next on Locked on Jazz?
0:12.0	You are Locked on Jazz, you are Locked on Jazz, your daily podcast on the Utah Jazz.
0:25.3	Part of the Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.
0:32.1	How are you?
0:32.8	I'm David Locke. Radio Voice of the Utah Jazz on today's show.
0:35.9	No consensus on where this draft is going to go.
0:39.3	One through four is going to make a wild next 40 days.
0:42.6	Yesterday was measurement day in the combines, and yes, it matters.
0:46.4	And the news was good all the way around.
0:49.7	Guards, guards, guards and more guards dominated the NBA.
0:52.6	How does that change your perspective?
0:54.0	What the Utah Jazz should do coming in this draft?
0:56.2	We start, though, with the ugly history of the number two pick in the NBA draft
1:03.8	and what do the Jazz need to do to avoid those pitfalls.
1:08.4	The second pick of the draft is the number one pick that underperforms
1:15.6	more than any other draft pick across the board. If you look across since, if you look at the
1:23.7	draft since 2007 to 2021.
1:36.9	We're probably close to being ready to do the 2022 draft at this point, but it's still a little early to evaluate all them.
1:39.0	I like to have four years before I kind of put those numbers in, but I think we have a
1:42.7	pretty good idea where
1:44.2	Paula Bunkero, Chet Holmgren, Jabari Smith, Keegan Murray, Jaden Ivy, and all of them are playing
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