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NBA Draft: Worst pick every current general manager has made

By Corey Rausch

LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 22: Lakers GM Rob Pelinka attends a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the New Orleans Pelicans at Staples Center on October 22, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images)
LOS ANGELES, CA - OCTOBER 22: Lakers GM Rob Pelinka attends a basketball game between the Los Angeles Lakers and the New Orleans Pelicans at Staples Center on October 22, 2017 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Allen Berezovsky/Getty Images) /
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Danny Ainge
Danny Ainge (Photo by Tim Bradbury/Getty Images) /

Worst NBA draft pick Boston Celtics general manager Danny Ainge has made: James Young

As many jokes as fans and critics love to make about Danny Ainge as a user of draft picks or how he never makes a trade involving them, this is unfair. He made non-consensus choices in Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum and clearly got them right. However, there are definitely some misses.

The most notable of which is James Young. Young looked like a future standout in one year at the University of Kentucky, where he made the All-Tournament Team after a run to the Final Four. Many teams got this draft wrong (as you will see throughout the list) and the Celtics took Young over the likes of Clint Capela, Bogdan Bogdanovic, Gary Harris and more.

Young was just never able to put the talent together in the league. Over three seasons with the Celtics, he played in 751 total minutes in 89 games while posting career averages of 2.3 points and 1.1 rebounds on shooting splits of .367/.276/.548. He would play six games with the Sixers the next season before heading overseas. Young has carved out a solid career there, playing for Maccabi Haifa and Hapoel Tel Aviv in the Israeli Premier League. Perhaps this is one of the picks Danny Ainge should have traded.

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