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On July 25, 2009 at the WaMu Theater at Madison Square Garden, 60 talented young men fulfilled their dreams of making it to the NBA.  On the other end of the spectrum, 30 NBA teams had the opportunity to get better.  Months of planning, debating, watching game tape, evaluating workouts, and crunching numbers all led up to the one night where all the analyzing would pay dividends, allowing each team to gain a chip that could bring them one step closer to a title. The results left me dumbfounded, and wondering why NBA executives remain oblivious to the talent passing them by, and how someone like Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace (Hasheem Thabeet, No. 2 overall) still has a job. It still amazes me that people who get paid to evaluate talent for a living—these mathematical geniuses ...

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Article written by Matt Gelfand