NBA DRAFT

Well the NBA Draft is Thursday night and on the list of my favorite sporting events I would rank the NBA Draft in the top 5. The others being the NFL Draft, March Madness, the NFL Conference Championship weekend, and the first episode of all of the seasons of Real World/ Road Rules Challenges just so if you can if CT will be there.

Every year I get extra fired up that the Celtics could do something amazing with their draft pick. I have been excited about the pick so far just three times in the last 10 years (Al Jefferson, Gerald Green, and Paul Pierce). Sadly the Celtics have also had some just bombs of picks including Jerome Moiso, Joseph Forte, Marcus Banks (before the emails start coming in saying “We didn’t draft him we traded for him, I just want to remind you that we drafted Troy Bell and made the trade. Either way it was an awful pick), and Kedrick Brown. The Celtics have also been the kings of drafting someone and trading them before they reached their potential. (see Chauncey Billups and Joe Johnson) Either way I am always skeptical going into the draft even though I know 70% of the time they absolutely blow it on the pick or immediately after. Don’t get me started on trading for Sebastian Telfair using the 7th pick last year. That spot could have been Brandon Roy, you know the Rookie of the Year and potential superstar in the NBA.

So the Celtics that now have the 5th pick in this years draft and anyone that can truly say they know what the Celtics are going to do with the pick are complete idiots. The Celtics can not make a pick without knowing what the 3rd and 4th pick are. Everyone knows that the Blazers are going to pick Oden and the Sonics will pick the Durant. The pick that decides the next 28 will be the third pick by the Hawks.

Mock Draft

1. Trailblazers – Greg Oden

2. Sonics – Kevin Durant

3. Hawks – Al Horford.
(I truly believe that they should take another power forward after drafting Sheldon Williams last year. He is simply the best player available even though they desperately need a point guard.)

4. Grizzlies – Brandon Wright
(I see the Memphis taking the UNC star with unbelievable potential. I think they will try and move Gasol because it is obvious that he doesn’t want to be there anymore and Wright has the ability to step right in that spot.)

5. Celtics – Corey Brewer
(Ok well this pick doesn’t make the most sense for the Celtics but it is the one that I would want the Celtics to make. The one position the Celtics have an abundance of is the swing man position with Pierce, Wally, Tony Allen, Gerald Green, etc. but I think of all the players left Brewer has the best chance of being a star. More likely then not Ainge will take either Yi or Jeff Green because they are bigger people and the Celtics desperately need some big man help.)


The rest of the draft will shake out based on those three picks. If you sat 100 people down in a room and asked them to come up with their mock draft it would not surprise me if only one person got the first 14 picks right. After the first two picks no one knows what is going to happen with the picks. What we do know though is that Stephen A. Smith will go nuts over at least 3 picks in the first round, someone’s big fat mom will be shown crying in the stands after their son is picked, and David Stern will butcher the pronunciation of one of the European picks. Either way I’ll be watching.