This year, the team holding the number one draft pick is the recently luckless Celtics.
A Big Three bumping into the pinnacle GOAT, they traded away over a decade's cornerstone of the team for Larry Sanders, who they believed would be their interior barricade for the next ten years. The result? This brother, during his injury period, sparked a passion for many hobbies and suddenly didn't want to play basketball anymore.
Ainge, to get him, had even traded Pierce, could he really let Sanders pursue art willingly? So he worked frantically on persuading him. The result: the more Sanders played, the more injuries he got, the more he despised basketball, and under internal and external pressure, he actually developed depression.
Not long ago, the Celtics officially bought out Sanders' contract, declaring Pierce's trade a complete failure.
The most pitiful Celtics garnered their second number one draft pick in team history.