How do we factor injury history into this? For example, there’s a few guys I won’t name that have had monster seasons early on and then got decimated by injuries that cut their career short.
I’ll use an ineligible NBA 75 guy to illustrate the point. Bill Walton had a dominant championship winning season in Portland in 77, followed it up with an MVP season, and then played 14 games the next 4 years.
If he were eligible, and 1977 Bill Walton was selected, would we be viewing him under the lens of ‘we know he’s going to miss the next 4 years’ or just that he’s generally injury prone, or would we really be taking that individual season and his overall ability into account?