**2024 NBA Draft Thead**
 

Should be an interesting one. No consensus first round pick and anyone's guess who goes in the Top 15. Could be alot of surprises. Also someone may draft Bronny first round simply to get LeBron next year who is an unrestricted free agent.

Tomorrow 7pm.

Lottery Mock Draft
1. Zaccharie Risacher
2. Alexandre Sarr
3. Reed Sheppard
4. Stephon Castle
5. Matas Buzelis
6. Donovan Clingan
7. Cody Williams
8. Devin Carter
9. Ron Holland II
10. Dalton Knecht
11. Robert Dillingham
12. Tidjane Salaun
13. Kel’el Ware
14. Tristan da Silva

I know like 5 of those people and I watch a ton of college basketball.

Super exciting stuff when it's a bunch of euro/int'l ****s.

Zach Edey likely to go 1st round!

Gross.

He'll get like 6 mins/game if he's lucky.

Hope the Raptors don’t take him

Nah, Canada can have him back. You ****ers deserve him.

It's hilarious how unwatchable drafts of any sport other than football are

Half of them look like WNBA names

Bronny only worked out for the Lakers and Suns. Several other teams tried to get him in the building, to no avail. That situation will get a little crazy, since it’s more about LeBron than it is Bronny actually being worthy of a first round pick.

The NBA is a year round event.
I wish KC had a team

Aren't all the fat unathletic white dudes busy watching dyke ball now?+

They're watching Hannity, well the old ones are.

I’m not sure I’ve ever seen the entire nba base this checked out of a class.

Not sure who I prefer for the Thunder. Cody Williams would be cool. But I’m not sure if Presti would move up for him

I actually couldn't disagree more. I find it EXTREMELY easy to evaluate basketball compared to football. I don't feel like anyone really knows what they are doing in football after the first few picks.

Nikola Topic (he's just the best player available) > Cody Williams > Ron Holland > Dalton Knect > DaRon Holmes

Imagine watching Veach cook the last few years and STILL thinking this. You're a special kind of reeruned!

Is any draft really that watchable?

He’s gonna score the game winning bucket in the gold medal game this summer now.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">BREAKING: The Brooklyn Nets have agreed in principle on a trade to send F Mikal Bridges to the New York Knicks for Bojan Bogdanovic, four unprotected first-round picks, a protected first-round pick via Bucks, an unprotected pick swap and a second-rounder, sources tell ESPN. <a href="https://t.co/TEGsIpoa3b">pic.twitter.com/TEGsIpoa3b</a></p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1805782619382063592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

???

Go Johnny Furphy?????

I guess???

Raptors should draft him

Only team in the league I'd probably religiously watch.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Another massive deal: Brooklyn has a deal with Houston to return the Nets’ 2026 first-round pick for a 2027 Phoenix Suns first-round pick, sources tell ESPN. Rockets also acquire 2025 right to swap Houston/OKC first for 2025 Suns first-round pick. More details coming on picks… <a href="https://t.co/qkTh3KwV63">pic.twitter.com/qkTh3KwV63</a></p>&mdash; Adrian Wojnarowski (@wojespn) <a href="https://twitter.com/wojespn/status/1805785798173741564?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

Somehow Oklahoma City will end up with more draft picks after the draft

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And believing it all.

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Alex Caruso 0 firsts.<br>Mikal Bridges 5 firsts.</p>&mdash; Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) <a href="https://twitter.com/tomhaberstroh/status/1805785030788366785?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">June 26, 2024</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>

The New York Knicks have fired coach Tom Thibodeau and have hired Jay Wright - Brian Windhorst reports

Small Sucky guard that scored 3 ****ing points in their lone tourney game goes #3 overall.

Woof, what a shit ass class.

Shit the black chick interviewing him on ESPN is bigger than he is

LMAO

Yeah, I just have very little interest in the draft this year. It's a horrid class.

Two ****ing French dudes went 1 and 2.

My lord

#4 pick averaged 11.1/4.7/2.9

Barf

I'm interested just to see how high that Frankenstein Edey goes.

I would like to be a fan of the team that gets Dillingham. Dude is super exciting in a classic high ceiling/low floor sort of way.

I'm a Purdue fan and not really sure how Edey translates to the NBA. Rotational player who has some real attributes and in a poor class that's pretty barren, it's at least something to hang your hat on.

That'll be the San Antonio Spurs.

Oh and lulz to idiots (national media pillow fluffers) that Bronny was a top 10 player.....

Bulls better take Buzelis here.

Who had him as a top 10 player?

Massive bust potential for Edey at pick 9. Not a believer at all in his ability to play defense in the NBA today. He’d have been far more effective in the 90s.

Nope.

Guy is going to be very good. I like Dillingham too. Those UK guards can fill it up and Sheppard avg 2.5 steals per game in not a ton of minutes. He's the real deal.

Please let Topic fall to OKC.

He doesn't fit the now but my god he could definitely be the best player in this draft.

If not, reach for Holmes as a perfect fit.

Yeah huge reach but if there is a team he could fit on it is Memphis.

**** yes.

Topic!! OKC leggo

Good pick for Chicago. Have to go with that one.

He's undersized but he's going to be a super scorer.

Mel Kiper Jr probably

Edey should be a big hit in Memphis with the grit and grind thing they got going down there.

Lets ****ing go

Sam Presti ****ing robbed the NBA

Then let me hear ya hoooooowwwl big guy!!!!

Looks like he likes big asses too so

Steal of a pick by LeBron in getting Knecht there

Not too thrilled with the Edey pick. Definitely wanted to trade up for Clingan. I think the offensive potential is amazing, though for the pick and roll with him and Morant. Just have to hope Jaren Jackson can help him out on every pick and roll defensively.

Edwards and Dillingham are wow.

You almost made it through an entire NBA thread.

Didn’t LeGM make that pick?

Like the Walter pick much more than Furphy for the Raps. A more multi-dimensional scorer.

Furphy free falling

The whole draft sucks so might as well get a guy with a discernible and translatable skill.

Not sure he'll actually be able to get into the lane like he did at TN but the shot should still work. He has a nice release so as a dedicated shooter and space creator, he should be a viable rotational guy.

He, Christie and Reaves should, between them, be able to provide some level of reliability on offense at guard.

Then again, I'm not sure either of last years draft picks will even make the roster so...whatever.

And he falls right into the 2nd. Massive miscalculation from Furphy and his agent to stay in the draft now rather than returning to KU.

Eh.

He wasn't even a consensus top 20 pick and I rarely heard him considered as a lottery guy.

Hard to call it a 'free fall'. Nothing beyond pick 12-14 really makes much difference anyway. They're all dart tosses. You'll see teams trade a late 1st for a couple seconds then trade the seconds for cash considerations with some regularity. Literally amounts to selling their late 1st.

Some team lied to him.

Given the Lakers are still trying to win now given LeBron/AD, I don’t think they could have really done much better than Knecht. He’s a finished product but he just dominated the SEC last year with his shot.

He reportedly had a promise in the top 20, which is why he stayed in the draft in the first place. Falling out of the 1st is potentially gonna cost him millions (particularly when he could have stayed at KU and very well have been a lottery guy next year with some improvement).

Counter point: would it be any better for him next year in what projects to be a significantly stronger draft?

His entire draft stock is potential and a pretty good 10-12 game stretch from around January.

He might get better by coming back or he might have a reduced role with the transfers that Self brought in (who can actually defend). Hell, he might even get further exposed (defensively especially).

Plus, no NIL dollars to collect.

Agent’s job to figure that out.

Depends if we should see more of the version of Furphy from mid-season where he looked like a top 10 pick for about a 6 game stretch. I suspect we would have.

Anyone remember Marcus Fizer?

Whatever happened to that guy.

Turd

I’m happy this happened honestly. Should have stuck around kangaroo boy

Plus it's a stupid name that sounds like Furry

The NBA has established enough of a developmental program that I question the value in coming back for another year for MOST players.

Because ultimately, if he's an NBA caliber prospect, ball don't lie. He can get to the G-League and prove it. He can work on the same stuff he would've had to work on at KU to get himself a lucrative deal.

And those G-league deals are typically shorter, so if he DOES prove it, he'll have an opportunity to cash in on a similar timeline. Moreover, my memory serves, that 2nd round picks actually have a chance to get to big money SOONER than 1st round picks. The old Gilbert Arenas thing.

Now maybe they've closed some of that stuff up. But my memory is that a 2nd round pick his RFA status a year sooner than a 1st rounder and RFA contracts are getting awfully rich in their own right. A guy can play his way up and still vault quickly into the high-earner ranks if he has the tools for it.

If he's a ballplayer, he'll be able to show it. If not, another year at KU wasn't going to change that.

Good passer but he’s torn his ACL 2 times already. He’s pretty finesse too

Unfortunately for him, it seems teams actually watched tape of him on court in the months outside of January.

What's with the guys from KU and their awful names Dick and Furphy?

Yes, if he's destined to be a NBA player, this won't change much in the end. However, his path to that will now be a much more difficult one without a guaranteed multi-million dollar contract to fall back on. And if he ends up being a scrub after all a few years down the road, it's gonna hurt.

Yup.

Those are the guys that are hurt by slides - the guys that just aren't very good. In which case it wasn't really a slide - it was NBA teams being smarter than Stephen A Smith or whoever else did a mock draft that day.

And ultimately if he IS a scrub, going back to KU wasn't going to help him. Might have even hurt him going into a tougher draft next season WITHOUT as much promise as of the unknown. Right now you can say "Hey, maybe he becomes an NBA player someday" but if he goes back to KU next season and disappoints, you probably know he can't. And now you're looking at a post-draft contract in the G-League.

Furphy to the Spurs. If any NBA team can develop him, it's them.

Furphy is a Spur, Spurs are having a nice draft

The second round fired up at 4pm eastern huh?

NBA just knocking this draft stuff out of the park

It is dumb and unnecessary, the NBA does not need a 2 day draft

I’m literally their exact target audience for shit like this and I can’t even watch.

Betting that Trump/Biden deciding to randomly do a debate in June ****ed them on that one.