With both rounds of the 2024 NBA draft completed, it's time to break down how each team did over the course of the two-day event. Below, we'll take a look at the hauls every team picked up from both rounds, as well as the trades that were made along the way. And we'll evaluate how each organization did on the tried-and-true A-through-F grading scale.
Fit, upside, team situations, numbers and plenty more were consulted in coming to these grades, but good-old fashioned subjectivity also had its say. That has to be present when trying to read a team's future. Zaccharie Risacher (No.
1); Nikola Đurišić (No. 43) The Atlanta Hawks' grade depends an awful lot on how you feel about Zaccharie Risacher. The 19-year-old is perhaps the least heralded or known top pick since Andrea Bargnani in 2006, but the best version of the Frenchman fits the modern game perfectly.
He's 6'10", a fluid athlete and a potentially dynamic outside shooter. There's at least a chance he'll boast the combination of size and versatility just about every team is after on the wing. The more interesting pick, though, may have come on the draft's second day.
A couple hours before the second round started, Atlanta traded former first-round pick AJ Griffin to the Houston Rockets for the 44th selection. The Hawks later moved up one more spot to take forward Nikola Đurišić. They're essentially betting on Đurišić being better than Griffin, and there's a world in which that winds up being the case.
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