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Think of Rudy Gobert if Rudy Gobert could dribble and shoot. That’s Victor Wembanyama.

In the dry months of the NBA offseason, we get to watch semi-competitive basketball and young rising talent duke it out in Las Vegas.

Which team drafted the next superstar? Who will be the biggest bust? What happened with the Knicks? Here are the initial winners and losers of the 2022 NBA draft.

If you won’t acknowledge an individual’s greatness because he plays for a losing team, why condemn him for joining a team that has a chance at winning?

Looking back just over one year later, it’s astonishing to see the profound effect that the NBA had in getting us all to understand that this is something that we needed to address as a country as soon as we could.

The defending NBA champions could have run it back with the same team and probably felt pretty good about it. Instead, the Lakers decided they could get even better and did just that.

Once the game begins to “slow down,” players give themselves an opportunity to showcase their talents and “break out.”

Even if the NBA does not return until next year, however, there will still be awards to give out. With that in mind, let’s see who should win each award, even if there will be no more games played in the 2020 NBA season.