What if the 2020 NBA Draft happened again? Redraft the class that gave the league Anthony Edwards, Tyrese Haliburton, Tyrese Maxey, LaMelo Ball and Desmond Bane — and watch the lottery reshuffle completely.
How the 2020 draft really went, pick by pick through the first round.
The first round of the actual 2020 NBA draft: pick number, player and the team that drafted him.
The same picks, re-made with hindsight — and how far each player moves from where he actually went.
The first round of a 2020 NBA redraft: pick number, player, the team holding that pick, and where he actually went.
No changeUp 10 placesUp 18 placesUp 5 placesDown 2 placesUp 24 placesUp 21 placesDown 2 placesUp 17 placesUp 1 placeUp 14 placesUp 4 placesUp 1 place
Up 35 places
UndraftedUp 3 places
Up 43 places
Up 23 placesDown 14 places
Up 17 placesDown 11 places
Up 36 placesDown 15 placesDown 6 places
Up 17 placesDown 22 placesDown 12 places
Up 7 placesDown 9 placesDown 8 places
Minnesota got this one right on the night and the redraft leaves him there. He lost Rookie of the Year to LaMelo Ball and has spent every season since putting distance between himself and the rest of the class.
Eleven teams passed and Sacramento traded him 18 months later. He led the league in assists for Indiana, took them to the 2025 Finals, then tore an Achilles in Game 7 and missed all of 2025-26 — the biggest what-if still open in this class.
Twenty picks of hindsight. Philadelphia took him at 21 and he became the only player in the class to win Most Improved Player, then made an All-NBA team — the best value pick of the first round by some distance.
Four quiet years in Washington, then a trade to Portland and a breakout that made him an All-Star in 2026 — the first player of Israeli descent to be selected. The redraft moves him up five spots on the strength of it.
Rookie of the Year ahead of Edwards and Haliburton, and an All-Star by his second season. The scoring and playmaking never went away; the winning and the availability did, which is why he slips two places here rather than holding at three.
The Warriors used the second pick on James Wiseman. Haliburton was still on the board and went on to lead the league in assists. Golden State spent the next four years looking for a guard to carry the offence when Stephen Curry rested — and one was available at two.
The Kings drafted him 12th and traded him to Indiana 18 months later. He made two All-NBA teams and reached a Finals in the shirt they traded him for. It is the clearest case in this class of a team correctly identifying a player and then not believing its own scouting.
Maxey lasted until 21 and turned into a Most Improved Player and an All-NBA guard. Every lottery team had two chances at him. The redraft puts him third — meaning eighteen picks of the real first round were, with hindsight, spent on players who became less.
He went down in the deciding game of the 2025 Finals and missed the whole of 2025-26 while Indiana went 19-63. This class's second-best player lost a full season at 25. Nothing in the redraft accounts for it, and nobody knows yet what it costs him.
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