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2024-25 NBA Draft Guide: Reviewing Last Year’s Busts

By Mike Passador Published August 27, 2024 Updated August 19, 2025 1 min read

Part of being a reasonable analyst is looking back on your past work and sorting out what worked and what didn’t. We’ve got to engender some accountability here, but more than that, we’re looking for why past mistakes were made. What about our old opinions and research blew up in our faces? Or better yet, what was dead-on correct?

Given how hard it is for a player picked in most 12-team leagues to totally bottom out, most busts will have held value somewhere. We were not, and are rarely going to, try and call shots on insane degradation of play. Instead, we’re looking at these players to see whether they met their ADPs, or whether the difference between ADP and final value was still worth the time.

With that in mind, let’s take a look back at last season’s predicted Busts to see where the hits and misses were.


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Mike graduated from Boston University's Dual Degree Program with a BA in Economics and a BS in Business with Concentrations in Marketing and Operations Management. He is a faithful supporter of Toronto sports and the Detroit Lions and is always ready to be let down. Tweet to him @Mike_Pandador, but if you badmouth Jose Calderon you might get blocked.

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