• Don't bet against Kidd-Gilchrist

  • By Chad Ford | June 4, 2012 5:47:47 AM PDT

CLEVELAND -- Go ahead. Bet against Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.

Call him offensively challenged. Dissect his shooting hitch. Wring your hands over his ballhandling.

Wonder aloud about the sanity of using the No. 2 pick on a player with his weaknesses.

The NBA draft is a game of labels, and Kidd-Gilchrist doesn't fit many of the ones NBA scouts and draft analysts love to use on top-tier picks. But be careful.

Ask anyone who knows anything about basketball what label should adorn Michael Kidd-Gilchrist as he prepares for the 2012 NBA draft and they all, to a man, say the same thing.

Winner.


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