Teams that really need to shed salary are also good enough to have late first round picks... which is why the Lakers assets are so much more promising, because they've shown legit NBA potential (well, Clarkson, Nance, Zubac have — and Kuzma / Hart are probably as valuable as like a pick # 17 - 20 in
a normal draft class — this year was crazy).
Part of the advantage of a deep
class, like at iOL, is that a team can get very good players later in the
draft than you might expect to find them in a
normal year (e.g. OG Colby Gossett, App State).