A: First, I'm not sure anyone can identify a "star of the future" off a season of playing in Australia (Ferguson) or a season practicing at Kentucky after prep school (Diallo). And you're talking about a pair of 18-year-olds, so it's not as if there has been much of an open book. But getting to your thesis, there is some validity, with the way the new collective-bargaining agreement allows you to control a player's right and purse strings for about a decade. So, yes, identifying the right young talent, with patience, can go a long way. Still, we also are talking about an in-the-moment team, one that wouldn't quit even in the face of 11-30 at midseason. So the only way I could envision the Heat bypassing more of a ready-to-play prospect would be if they believe they already have a competitive rotation in place. And an argument certainly could be made that if Dion Waiters and James Johnson are locked up during free agency that there would be an ability to bring a prospect along slowly. By contrast, should all (or at least most) of the Heat's cap space go to a single "whale" type of free agent, then there would be more of a need for this draft pick to step in as Justise Winslow was asked to do two seasons ago. So your premise is intriguing, as are many of the untested prospects in the Heat's likely range in the middle of the first round.