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FWIW...Jazz offered Cavs Favors and #5 for the #1 pick.
With Embiid possibly dropping out of the Top 5, this changes a lot of things for a lot of teams. I wonder who's going #1 now or will Cleveland trade it for Philly's #3 and 10 since the Sixers are rumored to be all over Wiggins.
Bucks is probably going to take Parker. Exum is a darkhorse for #1as well. Will Cleveland trade Irving and build around Exum?
Will Boston end up trading for Kevin Love which to this day has the best offer in the table?
Lakers #7 for Klay? How far does Embiid drop?
I think this draft day is going to be crazy.
FWIW...Jazz offered Cavs Favors and #5 for the #1 pick.
Chad Ford reported the Cavs may pick Exum at #1 and this wouldn't surprise me one bit, given their track record.
Exum, Wiggins, Parker and Embiid all have the potential of being the face of a franchise. Exum has a LOT of hype coming out of Australia
And it's true, Sixers are going after Wiggins and the Bucks are rumored to draft Parker. As Ford mentions, it is hard to see the Sixers taking Embiid with Noel already on the roster. Noel sat for a year with an injury, a path many Sixers fans think Embiid could take.
Orlando admitted Marcus Smart was at the top of their board last year and would've picked him 2nd overall (instead of Oladipo) had he declared. It makes you wonder if they're going to draft him at 4. Jazz may go after Vonleh or Randle? Boston will probably draft Embiid at # 6, it would be a huge miscalculation on their part to let him slip, especially with the Lakers waiting at #7.
I like Exum for the Cavs but it's not a popular opinion since he's unproven and Cleveland can't afford another bust. It could all be a smokescreen though, Cavs may just draft Parker or Wiggins at #1.
Hoping for:
Cavs taking Wiggins to build Team Canada South (they don't get CoJo!!!)
Then Utah trading up to get mormon Parker.
Sixers taking Exum as I want to see the MCW/Exum backcourt!
Orlando taking Embiid, creating a nice Oladipo/Embiid combo going forward.
CoJo and Bonner to the Cavs for the #1, tbh...
completing my "wish-draft top10":
Milwaukee (from Utah) taking Julius Randle
Boston taking Noah Vonleh
Laker taking Aaron Gordon
Sactown taking Marcus Smart
Charlotte taking Zach LaVine
Charlotte trading up taking Kyle Anderson
id be stoked with marcus smart or even embiid if we get lucky. lakers is the right destination to groom the league's next premiere big man
Vonleh will be the stud of this draft.
Aaron Gordon is a scrub. At best he's a Matt Barnes.
Vonleh's death sentence
have that feeling too, he's going to be a 20 and 10 player.
Aaron Gordon is receiving consideration from the Orlando Magic with the No. 4 overall pick in the NBA draft and is not expected to fall past the Sacramento Kings at No. 8.
Gordon displayed a 39-inch vertical leap during the Chicago pre-draft combine.
"If and when I reach my full potential, I think I will be better than everybody [in this draft]," Gordon said. "I think I will have an edge."
Would be fun if we could arrange for a small mock draft like this:
5-10 people take over as team GMs...for examble: 1st GM gets 76ers, Atlanta, Boston, next GM gets Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas...and so on (depending on how many GM's we have)...then just posting the picks they take and why.
You could start a thread with this. Good idea
I'm down.
Joel Embiid has undergone surgery on his injured foot and entered the draft process with back issues, and sources say that there are several other issues with his physical that need to be addressed.
Embiid could go as high as No. 3, but could certainly drop to the second half of the top-10.
Embiid was widely considered the top overall prospect in the 2014 NBA Draft before his foot injury.
Via Chad Ford/ESPN
Also
A source says Jabari Parker strongly prefers to play for the Milwaukee Bucks, something that the Cleveland Cavaliers appear to be aware of.
Parker worked out for the Cavaliers on Friday and two sources said he seemed indifferent. One source thought Parker "tanked" the workout.
"Jabari wasn't himself," one source said. "It was clear we weren't his first option."
But the Cavaliers are still leaning toward taking Parker over Andrew Wiggins.
Via Chad Ford/ESPN
Lastly
Woj hinted that Embiid's agent is only giving medical info to Cs/LAL trying to get him there making other lottery teams leery of picking him
9:56 AM - 23 Jun 2014
Jazz offer for the #1 pick is now Derrick Favors, Alec Burks, and the #5 pick.
How do you feel about that from a Jazz perspective?
lol trading away 2 players for an unknown to be develop...
lol investing in haywood...
they got their priorities wrong
htf u went from a playoff team to missing the playoffs the following season with same personel?
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