If you're still with us by this point then you truly are a sucker for the misery, but what else are you going to do with the offseason stretching out in front of us?
The small forward selection for our 0-82 Phoenix Suns starting five might just have been the most straightforward spot yet, but power forward is going to run Yuta Watanabe close.
Jalen Smith the disappointing key draft pick that never got going
It is bad enough that Smith (who surprisingly qualifies through the 20 games played in a season rule twice here) failed to become the final piece in what could have been a title winning team.
But to make matters worse his selection with the 10th pick in the 2020 NBA Draft might just have cost the Suns their shot at glory in 2021. The selection directly after him? Devin Vassell, who is currently competing in the NBA Finals with the San Antonio Spurs and doing his bit to keep them in that series.
The 12th pick? None other than Tyrese Haliburton, and with the Suns looking a shooter short in that finals meeting with the Milwaukee Bucks, the current cornerstone of the Indiana Pacers would have been the perfect weapon off the bench. To say nothing of the player he would become.
Even more frustrating is the fact that Smith to this day still clearly has potential to be a player in this league. Unlike the other guys on this made up roster who were either past their peak once they arrived in The Valley or never truly had one, Smith is with the Chicago Bulls currently because of what he could be.
Injuries continue to hold him back, and it is his inability to play consistently combined with the position that the Suns drafted him which make him a massive bust.
Averaging just over four points a night in his two seasons in Phoenix is bad, but putting up 10.2 points for the Bulls this campaign in 53 appearances (21 starts) again makes this even worse. The version we saw for the Suns was nowhere near ready to contribute, and it hurt the franchise.
Special mention must also go to Ish Wainright and Bol Bol (despite how much the fans love him), although his actual position when Kevin Durant was in town fluctuated between the four and five seemingly on a minute-by-minute basis.
Jalen Smith will fit in just fine here.
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