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2017 NBA Draft: 3 biggest winners and losers

By John Pearson

Jun 22, 2017; Brooklyn, NY, USA; De'Aaron Fox (Kentucky) shows off the inside of his suit after being introduced as the number five overall pick to the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 22, 2017; Brooklyn, NY, USA; De'Aaron Fox (Kentucky) shows off the inside of his suit after being introduced as the number five overall pick to the Sacramento Kings in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports /
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Jun 22, 2017; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Jayson Tatum (Duke) is introduced by NBA commissioner Adam Silver as the number three overall pick to the Boston Celtics in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports
Jun 22, 2017; Brooklyn, NY, USA; Jayson Tatum (Duke) is introduced by NBA commissioner Adam Silver as the number three overall pick to the Boston Celtics in the first round of the 2017 NBA Draft at Barclays Center. Mandatory Credit: Brad Penner-USA TODAY Sports /

Winner – Jayson Tatum

Tatum lands in a perfect place. Boston desperately needed a player that can consistently hit jump shots. Only one player on the team last year made more than 1,000 points, and that was Isaiah Thomas.

Now Tatum joins a team that will want him to go out there every night to beat the man guarding him and hopefully puts up 10-15 points a game. The Duke alumni join the best regular season in the East and a title contender if they can find an answer to LeBron, Kyrie and the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Most of the time, when a player is drafted in the lottery, they are aware of how bad the team is and know that they will be rebuilding at least for the first part of their career, not Tatum, he gets to compete for an NBA Championship in his first season legitimately.