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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Dan Woike

NBA draft: First impressions of the hits and head-scratchers

Full disclosure — assigning grades to a draft that just happened is typically foolish. Today's reaches are tomorrow's steals, and today's sure things are just as likely to disappoint.

It's an inexact science, and judging it in the immediate aftermath is even trickier when you view it as just part of an offseason puzzle that will be filled in over the next seven days. But it's a fun exercise where you can try to judge the way teams navigated the road that was before them.

OK, now that I will not be held responsible for any of these evaluations, let's get to it.

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