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2024 NBA Mock Draft #3

David Hume said:
With the 32nd pick, Utah selects Bronny James. Now the ball is in LA’s court. If LeBron really wants to play alongside his son, they will make us an offer. If LeBron really doesn’t want to see his son confined to the G League for a year, or sit out the season, he’s going to pressure the Lakers to do something about it. Like maybe send us two future 2nds and take the top-4 protection off the pick they owe us in exchange for giving them Bronny. No matter what the outcome, it will cause commotion among the Lakers. If they don’t bite, we just develop Bronny ourselves, G League and all, and develop him as we would with any other prospect, and LeBron stews while Bronny is in the G League. If Bronny refuses to sign with us, he can sit out the season, no big loss for us, but again, a maddening outcome for LeBron.

The Lakers and LeBron would both face PR/credibility issues if they drafted Bronny at 17. It would just look too nepotistic because Bronny might not be drafted at all if not for being LeBron’s son. But drafting him at 55 no one would complain about.

Lakers and LeBron are of course strategizing what they will do in the event someone drafts Bronny before them. They could try and spin things by having minions put out the message “we goaded another team into drafting Bronny with a high second round pick” but that still wouldn’t solve the issue of Bronny going to the G League or sitting out the season. LeBron would still be pissed.
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As the poster who both represents Utah and LAL, it will be fascinating how you respond to yourself on this one. I'm looking forward to it.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
As the poster who both represents Utah and LAL, it will be fascinating how you respond to yourself on this one. I'm looking forward to it.
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No trades between teams you are picking for. Based on the preliminary responses from my colleagues on JazzFanz, my “draft Bronny” idea seems like a bad one, and I suppose it probably is. I still have to wonder if there is someway to get into LeBron’s head during the draft to cause awkward internal problems within the Lakers. But it could backfire, maybe it really is LeBron just trying to market his kid and nothing more, he doesn’t care if he plays with him, he just wants Bronny in the NBA. That’s more than likely, and even if it wasn’t, that’s how the Lakers and LeBron would likely respond. So unless you really believe in Bronny, not much would come of it.
 
David Hume said:
No trades between teams you are picking for. Based on the preliminary responses from my colleagues on JazzFanz, my “draft Bronny” idea seems like a bad one, and I suppose it probably is. I still have to wonder if there is someway to get into LeBron’s head during the draft to cause awkward internal problems within the Lakers. But it could backfire, maybe it really is LeBron just trying to market his kid and nothing more, he doesn’t care if he plays with him, he just wants Bronny in the NBA. That’s more than likely, and even if it wasn’t, that’s how the Lakers and LeBron would likely respond. So unless you really believe in Bronny, not much would come of it.
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From what I understand, Lebron really wants to play with Bronny, but Bronny doesn't necessarily feel the same way, so Lebron has backed off of insisting that they play together.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
As the poster who both represents Utah and LAL, it will be fascinating how you respond to yourself on this one. I'm looking forward to it.
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How I think the Lakers should respond: tell LeBron “we offered cash for that pick and Utah refused. There’s nothing further we can do.” LeBron’s not signing with Utah. So Bronny would be on the Jazz. And I really don’t believe in Bronny at 32, so yeah, it now does seem like a bad idea. Oh well. Hopefully it brought 15 minutes worth of amusement on JazzFanz.
 
David Hume said:
How I think the Lakers should respond: tell LeBron “we offered cash for that pick and Utah refused. There’s nothing further we can do.” LeBron’s not signing with Utah. So Bronny would be on the Jazz. And I really don’t believe in Bronny at 32, so yeah, it now does seem like a bad idea. Oh well. Hopefully it brought 15 minutes worth of amusement on JazzFanz.
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I actually don't think that Bronny at 32 is a huge waste of a pick. Mostly in the sense that the majority of 2nd rounders don't ever make it, but I also think Bronny has some potential.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
I actually don't think that Bronny at 32 is a huge waste of a pick. Mostly in the sense that the majority of 2nd rounders don't ever make it, but I also think Bronny has some potential.
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They will pony up for Bronny so I’d take him and make them sweat.
 
I think we should scrap the 2nd round, and do another 1 just for the 1st round before the actual draft.

It's just more exciting with the players we know well.

Anyone else agree?
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
They will pony up for Bronny so I’d take him and make them sweat.
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Bad idea. I would talk to the Lakers about a trade, but I wouldnt draft Bronny to hold him hostage. There's enough quality at 32 you are passing up on someone with potential and you are going to piss off Klutch agency which has a lot of power.

I also would hate the media circus around Bronny Jr.
 
I'm going with McCullar Jr. for Phoenix, and who I was targeting with for this pick.

I think he could be a rotation level player for Phoenix and do all of the little things they need to surround their stars with.
 
The Midnight said:
I think we should scrap the 2nd round, and do another 1 just for the 1st round before the actual draft.

It's just more exciting with the players we know well.

Anyone else agree?
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If you don't want to participate in the second round then just sell your picks for "future seconds or cash considerations." There are some posters here that have a full 60 player big board. If you would like to start another 1st round mock draft, feel free to do it. If this thread dies because of lack of participation, that's fine as well.
 
Saint Cy of JFC said:
Bad idea. I would talk to the Lakers about a trade, but I wouldnt draft Bronny to hold him hostage. There's enough quality at 32 you are passing up on someone with potential and you are going to piss off Klutch agency which has a lot of power.

I also would hate the media circus around Bronny Jr.
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Tell them you like him. Want to develop him. If Lakers want to make a deal it’s really easy. It doesn’t have to be antagonistic.
 
Handlogten's Heros said:
Tell them you like him. Want to develop him. If Lakers want to make a deal it’s really easy. It doesn’t have to be antagonistic.
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Yeah, but I dont like him and I doubt the Jazz like him at 32. If Danny thinks he can make that play, I would trust his experience, but I doubt he does because I think it's clearly not worth the headache.
 
There are still a couple of guys that haven't been picked who are pretty highly rated on some mocks. I think this draft is pretty deep.
 
SoberasHotRod said:
If you don't want to participate in the second round then just sell your picks for "future seconds or cash considerations." There are some posters here that have a full 60 player big board. If you would like to start another 1st round mock draft, feel free to do it. If this thread dies because of lack of participation, that's fine as well.
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I only have 1 pick left so no big deal.

With how the draft went, i thought it would be fun to re-run the 1st round again and see how it would out this time.
 
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