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As I See It
By draft, over the last five drafts, these are the only players out of the Top 10 players picked to be elected to either an All NBA Team or All Star Team
2015: (3) Karl-Anthony Towns, D'Angelo Russel, Kristaps Porzingis
2016: (3) Ben Simmons, Brandon Ingram, Jaylen Brown
2017: (1) Jayson Tatum
2018: (2) Luka Doncic, Trae Young
2019: (2) Zion Williamson, Ja Morvant
2020: To early to tell, but nobody merited the All Star Status.
So in the 5 drafts prior to 2020 that's 50 players picked in the top 10 picks. Of those 50 players picked exactly 11 have merited league recognition of some sort (two are Pelicans). So if you want to trade the only All Star Player on our team who is capable of scoring from three levels to speculate on a player who has about a 22% chance of working out at the traded player's level in the first five years, have at it. For every Luka Doncic or Jayson Tatum, there are far more Jahlil Okafor's, Markelle Fultz', Marvin Bagley's, and Dragan Bender's to chose from.
There is no way we should trade away a proven talent (who is only 23 year old) for a definite, maybe. That's like trading away a top performing executive in your organization for a 19 year old college freshman who has the 'look' but hasn't proven a thing in the real world and saying, "Watch out for the Pelicans five years from now". The Zion Window is not that wide.