Say he plays with Ayton and comes out the same time. No question Luka is the #1 pick, right? Does Ayton come out or develop a work ethic or desire to win? Do they want to team up in the pros? What this does to the 2018 draft is crazy though. It would throw everything off. Guys like Bagley may even go somewhere they can develop rather than ending up in NBA purgatory on a Kings team that somehow was worse than the Suns during our decade of descent.
Hmm.... Maybe the fantasy of the Suns going hard and dumping future capital to draft Ayton AND Luka comes true? Sarver is a UofA guy, so that probably would have tickled him in the right places, and Luka would have been a dominant college player as a freshman, they probably make a deep run.
The "Suns draft Luka and Ayton" seems crazy now, but it was a legit conversational piece at the time, we had the top pick, the 10th pick and a bunch of draft capital to throw around... if anything, I think we could have outbid what the Mavs gave up to get him from Atlanta at #3.
Bagley however... I think was destined to be a bust. He was a good college player but a deficient guy at every aspect of NBA ball that matters... and his work ethic was worse than Ayton's.
I think Luka dominates in college and goes #1, he probably makes Ayton look even better and Ayton is the unquestioned #2... so it's hard to see us getting both, which would probably be a good thing.
Or, because it's Arizona sports we're talking about, Ayton and Luka bring out the worst in each other, both come off as petulant, spoiled turds, the Suns draft Bagley #1 and we remain in the cellar for another few years.
