Avy

Evan Turner says the Sixers wasted a lottery pick by bringing him off the bench after drafting him with the No. 2 overall pick in the 2010 NBA Draft Turner entered the NBA as the reigning national player of the year and a consensus first team All-American. He didn’t become a full time starter until his third season. “As a number two pick, I walked in I say bro, ‘Why would I be playing, and I love my guys at that depth, I don’t understand what we talking about. Why am I coming off the bench behind for a 28-win team and y’all telling me I gotta play behind a dude that played here six years and he showed you what he was.’ This is worth my future and development. Y’all wasted a lottery pick” “I literally thought like, ‘How do we not have a system built around me if y’all were waiting for me?’ When I was sitting there, I was like, ‘Yeah, I’m doing too many blue collar things to be a superstar.’ And not like in a bad way. I just thought you get a system set up. When John Wall came in, Gil [Arenas] was elite and they made him move over positions”