Here’s my updated (post-lottery) mock draft, as well as two other prominent mocks – Chad Ford (ESPN’s NBA Draft Insider) and Draft Express (a credible independent NBA Draft website). Mock Drafts Pick Team New Draft City Chad Ford (ESPN): 6.0…
Month: May 2014
Mock Draft 1.0 (Picks 21-30)
21. Oklahoma City Thunder (from Dallas): T.J. Warren, SF, North Carolina State Outside of Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook, the Thunder offense amounts to almost nothing (which might lead to Coach Scott Brooks’ firing if they don’t go far enough…
Where do NBA players come from?
Fellow WordPress site, SPORTCHART, recently put together an interesting series of maps detailing where in the US and around the world athletes in major sports come from. Here’s the map for the NBA: The top-4 cities in the US are…
Michael Chiadis – 2014 NBA Draft Scouting Video
Here’s the scouting video I made for faux-prospect, Michael Chiadis, of Lehigh University. Michael is 5-6, 22 year old, senior point guard who did not play on the team this past season. Unsurprisingly, he’s projected to go undrafted. Hopefully, we’ll get…
Mock Draft 1.0 (Picks 11-20)
11. Denver Nuggets (from New York): Gary Harris, SG, Michigan State The Nuggets are in a tough position because they’d like to secure another primary ball-handler to back-up/share duties with starting point guard, Ty Lawson, but Ennis and Smart are…
The All-Conspiracy Lottery
Since its inception in 1985, the NBA Draft Lottery has had a shadowy history. The system was originally implemented to negatively incentivize teams from intentionally losing games in order to secure the highest pick in the draft (more commonly referred…
NBA Regular Season Awards: Part 2
Here’s my picks for MIP. Note: I made my picks for these awards before any of the awards were announced. The only reason I’m putting these posts after the fact is because I didn’t have enough time to write them…