The first quarter of this season has mostly been tremendous fun, so pardon me while I turn Debbie Downer for a minute.



Um …. Can we talk about this draft lottery class?



With the two incandescent talents from June’s draft, Zion Williamson and Ja Morant, on the shelf for the near future, is there anyone in that draft you’d turn the channel to see play right now?



I didn’t want to jump the gun, so I waited for a while on this. But now that teams have played about 20 games each, early returns suggest the 2019 class is every bit as bad as people feared — particularly after those first two picks.



In fact, the lottery looks to be a stinker – maybe not on course to match the legendary fail of 2000 or 2013, but definitely rivaling, say, 2016 or other fallow years.



Several highly touted rookies have been frightfully bad. The third, fourth, fifth, sixth and 10th picks in the draft all have negative Win Shares this...