I’ll go against the grain and say that I wouldn’t mind grabbing the MEM pick this year.
There’s plenty of value in a 9-10 pick. And I’m just not convinced that they’ll suck for long enough for us to get a real premium pick out of the deal. By the time we want them to bottom out, they’ll have several early-to-mid lottery picks to go with lots of cap space and no incentive to suck.
I think it’s most likely that they start figuring it out right as the pick becomes unprotected, sort of like the Kings did this season. So if we get that pick this year, my feelings won’t be hurt.