The Los Angeles Lakers appear to have benefitted from other team's biases towards older NBA Draft prospects. The Lakers were able to snag Dalton Knecht

Dalton Knecht’s NBA dreams should have been over when he didn’t land a scholarship to his dream school, Colorado, coming out of high school in suburban Denver. He was forced to play JUCO ball the next two years,

Instead, according to LeBron, the other 16 teams that did not pick him in the 2024 NBA Draft “ [expletive] it up” and he then wondered if any of the talent evaluators and decision makers watched him play.