I've never followed a draft more closely and been more clueless on the direction as this year. After all of this, I'm going to make a prediction:
Lets look at the facts first:
1. We showed we were very good last year. We aren't many pieces away from being a legit contender.
2. This is a very strong class.
3. Many NBA franchises made terrible mistakes with contracts on 2016. This is the last year teams will lose an asset in order to dump them.
4. Our FO was brilliant to create as much tradeable expiring salary as they did.
5. There is more chatter about high draft picks being attainable than any draft I've ever seen.
6. We own the rights to the key free agents on our roster we might want to keep (Favors and Exum).
7. We have the cheapest trio of value wings in the entire NBA with Donovan, Royce and Jae ($11-12 million combined the next 2 years).
Prediction - we are going to do something big. I dont know what, but I just got this feeling. There are too many factors at play working in our favor all at the same time. We can take a terrible 2 year contract if it means swinging for fences.
Will be a fun draft. Happy Fathers Day fellas.
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