Grant-s Rant: 7-30-21 NBA Draft Day Grades Are Ridiculous

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Grant Napear

Sports, Basketball, Football

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🗓️ 30 July 2021

⏱️ 3 minutes

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The 2021 NBA Draft is in the books and once again it's time for the absurdity known as draft day grades. My question is why? I give plenty of examples of why this annual ritual needs to go away. Our sports media outlets continue to embarrass themselves with their "expert" analysis. For example the Los Angeles Lakers had the second overall pick from 2015-2017. They selected D'Angelo Russell, Brandon Ingram and Lonzo Ball. The grades were A, A+ and A respectively. None of them are on the Lakers anymore. Just plain stupid! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for Grant.
0:03.0	Grant.
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0:12.0	My least favorite day of the year with the NBA draft in the books as we are
0:16.6	bombarded with draft day grades.
0:19.2	Is there anything more ridiculous, more stupid, more frustrating? I mean I picked out three years just have some fun with this go back to 2015 bleacher report
0:27.4	Carl Anthony towns a number two to the Lakers the Angelo Russell a and they put you don't win without star backcourt play.
0:36.0	Jilil Oka for, Philadelphia, A, how about this? Years of tanking pays off as star center slips. I don't think so.
0:45.0	Next, Christops Porzingus A, and how about this? Mario Hazonia, Orlando, B-plus.
0:52.0	That would be an F. 2016, CBS Sports, Ben Simmons A-Nus. Brandon Ingram to the
0:58.8	Lakers A-plus. Jay Lynn Brown, Boston, B- minus.
1:03.4	How about this, Drogand-Bender Phoenix, A, how about like close to an F?
1:08.7	How about Chris Dunn, 5th, Minnesota, B, that would be close to an F. All right, I don't want to pick on Bleacher Report to
1:16.3	CBS Sports anymore. So let's go to 2017 and Sports Illustrated.
1:20.2	Mark L. Foltz, Philadelphia A. A, a a freaking a how about that
1:24.6	Lonzo ball Lakers a
1:27.0	How about Jason Tatum a minus that would be an a plus plus and then how about Josh Jackson Phoenix A that would be a big
1:36.4	fat F and then the ear and Fox A here's the bottom line all right if you can't even get the top five right, that's bad.
1:45.4	And I'll tell you what else is bad.
1:47.1	It looks bad for these media outlets when you go back and review them like I did.
1:52.0	And it shows you how stupid and how absurd it is.
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