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Drafting Players from Teams Outside the Playoffs, featuring KD, Zion and more

50m | Mar 19, 2025

There are several great players on the outside looking in of the playoff picture - including, Kevin Durant, Zion Williamson, Devin Booker and Tyrese Maxey. So why not draft them?

On a new episode of the Just Basketball show, Chris Manning and Wes Goldberg go back and forth drafting seven-man rotations of players from teams currently outside of the playoffs and the play-in tournament to build the best rotations possible and wonder if either team could actually push the top of the Eastern or Western Conference. (Spoiler alert: the answer is probably no.)

8:16 Kevin Durant (CM)

9:46 Zion (WG)

13:05 Lauri Markannen (CM)

16:08 Devin Booker (WG)

18:02 Tyrese Maxey (CM)

20:14 Miles Bridges (WG)

22:40 Quentin Grimes (CM)

26:30 Toumani Camara (WG)

28:51 Nic Claxton (CM)

30:11 Cam Johnson (WG)

32:32 Deni Avdija (CM)

33:53 Anfernee Simons (WG)

37:59 Jerami Grant (CM)

38:12 Jakob Poertl

39:22 Coaches: Jordi Fernandez (CM) and Will Hardy (WG)

42:13 Which teams does better?________________________________________

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