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2023 NBA Draft Megathread

KqWIN said:
Does everyone have a potential promise this year? Seems like it. Even some who dropped out of the draft lol.
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Lots of promises this year... most for no reason at all.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:

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I think Utah is a good place to go to for a guard, but I couldn't see Utah promising Bufkin a huge role to start out. The Jazz backcourt isnt elite or anything, but Dunn/Sexton/THT/Ochai/Clarkson is a pretty deep rotation.

Washington would be able to promise him that kind of role if they do a blowup around a Beal trade, but promising him at 8 seems a bit rich unless you are all the way out on the Twins and think Black is guaranteed to be gone by 8.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
I think Utah is a good place to go to for a guard, but I couldn't see Utah promising Bufkin a huge role to start out. The Jazz backcourt isnt elite or anything, but Dunn/Sexton/THT/Ochai/Clarkson is a pretty deep rotation.

Washington would be able to promise him that kind of role if they do a blowup around a Beal trade, but promising him at 8 seems a bit rich unless you are all the way out on the Twins and think Black is guaranteed to be gone by 8.
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yeah I didn't try to make any sense of it. I think OKC would be the promise team if I was guessing. Kobe worked out with SGA and its kinda their thing.

Or he just is trying to control his destiny and there is no promise.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Lots of promises this year... most for no reason at all.
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I wonder how uncouth it is to 1) renege on a draft promise 2) draft someone who actually has a promise elsewhere. I'm pretty sure Giannis had a promise and MIL took him anyways.

I feel like it's mostly just trying to bait other teams into trading up and/or media sleuthing for any kind of crumb to report on. Just seems like there are way more "promises" this year, but that may be because I'm following this year more closely.
 
KqWIN said:
I wonder how uncouth it is to 1) renege on a draft promise 2) draft someone who actually has a promise elsewhere. I'm pretty sure Giannis had a promise and MIL took him anyways.

I feel like it's mostly just trying to bait other teams into trading up and/or media sleuthing for any kind of crumb to report on. Just seems like there are way more "promises" this year, but that may be because I'm following this year more closely.
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Yeah.. not sure... might be teams being more secretive. I could see a Kobe promise at 16 and I could see him wanting to come here if JC bounces he'd have a shot to start sooner than later. I wouldn't want to go to NO or Atlanta if I was him.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Yeah.. not sure... might be teams being more secretive. I could see a Kobe promise at 16 and I could see him wanting to come here if JC bounces he'd have a shot to start sooner than later. I wouldn't want to go to NO or Atlanta if I was him.
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Maybe it’s Toronto? I feel like we’re all expecting craziness….but this draft feels like it will go chalk. DAL being the wildcard.

9: Ausar/Hendricks/Walker (whoever falls)
10. ??????
11. Dick (makes perfect sense for them imo)
12. Bilal (real promise)
13. Bufkin
 
KqWIN said:
Maybe it’s Toronto? I feel like we’re all expecting craziness….but this draft feels like it will go chalk. DAL being the wildcard.

9: Ausar/Hendricks/Walker (whoever falls)
10. ??????
11. Dick (makes perfect sense for them imo)
12. Bilal (real promise)
13. Bufkin
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Things I'd bet on

9 - Utah takes Black or the other "fallers"
10- Trade of some sort unless Hendricks or Black are available
11- Dick... this feels pretty guaranteed but Magic are really secretive
12- Bilal/Miller or Bufkin are my guesses.
13- Wallace, Bufkin, JHS
14- No damn idea.
15- I think this one gets traded

So I don't even know what "chalk" is. I think this section gets messy.
 
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