To highlight tomorrow’s big night of the NBA Draft, I’m
going to show some other work of people and see what their thoughts are on
tomorrow’s big day. Tomorrow marks the
beginning of talks of what the upcoming season could be like for the NBA
teams.
Above is a link to “Ranking draft prospects according to
wisdom of the crowd,” by Justin Rao and David Rothschild.
I enjoy the way they did this type of draft choice, by
letting the crowd or voters’ pick who would win certain match ups. First off the match up head-to-head between
Karl-Anthony Towns and Jahlil Okafor, they took Towns, in which I definitely
agree on. From then on, they did other
match ups to see who would fare against who.
As I find this different, I also find this kind of silly and
disregarding the task of finding the draft picks for certain teams. As this might point out who can beat who in a
head-to-head match up, this doesn’t depict what a team needs out of a certain
player.
Here is another look at some NBA Draft news and what teams
are looking for in the draft process.
The one paragraph that stood out to me was the Lakers trying to trade
for #2 pick for DeMarcus Cousins from the Sacramento Kings. I’m not sure if I quite agree with this
choice. On one side I see that Cousins
is still only 24 and has a ton of basketball left in him. He also is one of the most dominant big men
in the game. On the other side, the
Lakers have the #2 pick in the draft and a chance to obtain Jahlil Okafor or
even Karl-Anthony Towns. Both of these
big men will be All-Stars in the coming years and will play a big part for the
Lakers in years to come.
With that all said, I’m ready to see what happens tomorrow
for the Draft and to see what picks come from which team.
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