Bleacher Report cares way too much about the lack of 2nd round picks the Utah Jazz have

Bleacher Report is high on the Utah Jazz’s draft assets apparently.

The Utah Jazz have compiled arguably the best collection of draft picks in the NBA thanks to their recent scores of trades. The Rudy Gobert and Donovan Mitchell trades were the ones that significantly bulked up the team’s collection of picks, but other trades in recent years have also made the team rich in potential draft assets.

But when Bleacher Report started looking at teams in the NBA and the assets they carry with regard to draft assets, the Jazz did not rate as high as other teams. While Bleacher Report declared the Utah Jazz as having the 4th most impressive draft assets in the NBA, they weren’t first.

Or second, or third. Instead, they land fourth, which is wild, considering the Jazz arguably has as many first-rounders coming their way as every NBA team going. The Jazz have 13 first-round picks coming to them in some form or facet, yet, despite having the second most of any team over the selected period (the Oklahoma City Thunder has the most; 15), they’re somehow just fourth.

And why? Second-round picks, apparently.

The New York Knicks and San Antonio Spurs are ranked 3rd and 2nd above the Jazz, solely because they have more second-round picks. Never mind those picks are likely to never turn into an NBA player of significance, no, because they have so many that means they have better assets than the Jazz.

The quantity of an item does not supersede the quality of an item. If you have 1,000 pennies, that’s not more money than 10 $100 bills. That’s the issue with comparing a second-round pick to a potential lottery pick. Sure, the Knicks have 10 2nd round picks, and the Spurs have 16, but the Jazz have 13 first-round picks.

The Jazz are more likely to land top talent for their squad with their collection of firsts than the Spurs and Knicks are with their host of seconds. That’s not even a controversial take. Just go look at the second-round selections over the last 10 years and count how many players who never even come over to the NBA were drafted.

It’s absurd to think that New York and San Antonio have better draft prospects than the Jazz.