Which NBA Team Has Best Young Talent?

September 19th, 2014 by Grant Hughes Leave a reply »
There's no more valuable commodity in the NBA than young talent.

From a front-office perspective, young players (especially draftees) are cheaper, easy to mold and even easier to flip for other assets. And as far as fans are concerned, it's tough to top the excitement of a prospect with still-untapped potential.

Speaking at the Bloomberg Sports Business Summit, Milwaukee Bucks co-owner Marc Lasry raised a few eyebrows with a confident claim about his team's collection of youth, reports Frank Madden of Brew Hoop:

...I think right now we have the best team in the NBA that's under 23. So if you sort of look at it, we have a great group of young guys and the question is how well are they going to develop. We think they're going to develop really well, so I think within three years we'll end up being a pretty formidable team.

Bold, huh?

But is Lasry right? Do the Bucks really boast the best young talent in the NBA?

They've got rookie Jabari Parker and Greek phenom Giannis Antetokounmpo, both of whom have extremely bright futures. Maybe that's enough to make Lasry's claim true.

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