Star Players who were drafted ouside top 10:
Kobe Bryant
Steve Nash
Joe Johnson
Klay Thompson
Al Jefferson
Clyde Drexler
Karl Malone
Shawn Kemp
John Stockton
Jermaine O'neal
Reggie Miller
Most of them are alpha-male stars. The point is chance of getting a star player in that range is close to top 10.
Consider, though, all the players drafted outside the top 10 that didn't become stars.
Consider also all the teams that spend years in the lottery and get multiple top ten picks and still never are any good.
Mike
Timberwolves, Kings, 76ers... umm...
Is that it?
Pitino Celtics
Pre-Ujiri Raptors
Cavs outside LeBron
Pistons
Bobcats
Nets
Knicks
Bucks
Um, Pitino was here for 4 drafts, which netted Boston among other Paul Pierce. Not sure I'd use him as an example of a team in perpetual mediocrity.
Toronto was in the lottery 5 years, though won 40 games once and was in the mid-30's 3 of the other times. They also had their star player just up and leave on them. And during those five seasons drafted DeRozan and Valanciunas among others.
Cavs had 4 seasons without Lebron, whose leaving sort of left them in a lurch with a bunch of veteran contracts that didn't make sense on a rebuilding team.
Pistons are in a bit of down stretch, but seem to be going in the right direction being led by Drummond and Monroe (you know two guys they drafted in the top ten recently).
The Nets have never gone more than 5 seasons without being in the playoffs.
The Knicks are always trading their first rounders to try and be relevant. They are actually the poster child for why you shouldn't trade a bunch of first round picks for veteran players.
The Bucks seems like an odd pick since the early 90's have never been outside of the playoffs for more than 3 seasons at any given time (and the early 90's was following a stretch where they made the playoffs ever single season for over a decade). The Bucks are actually an example of why you shouldn't try the mediocre game because unless you get lucky in the lottery you are going to be stuck in mediocrity forever, which is no top ten picks and no real chance of contending, which is what they have been for the last 15 years or so. This year they finally got a top 3 pick and he unfortunately got injured. Of course they are also .500 right now.