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It's not guaranteed to be between 5 and 34. Could be as low as #44, I believe.

It's not 5-34 guaranteed. Lakers could be 14th and jump into the top 4 in the lottery.

I've thought Ainge might like Jarace quite a bit. He's picked a few guys with bigger/stockier body types over the years--G. Williams, Smart, Ojeleye, Yabusele. A few of them had questions around their shooting coming into the draft, and Danny has been willing to take a chance on them. Walker...

STFU you absolute lunatic.

Christ. STFU you one note clown.

If the '29 pick winds up in the top 4, do we know what happens? A 2nd rounder in '29?

Kessler was #2 in Pelton's stats-only draft projections.

That team wouldn't even make the playoffs, you moron.

Yes but can't aggregate w/another player.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2022-nba-player-projections/nickeil-alexander-walker/

How can you spend all day talking about basketball and think things like this?

Only one borderline all-star, the top two in 6MoY voting and another guy who averages 18 & 4 outside of the Rudy & Don. What a failure of teambuilding.

Kings are -12.8 per 100 possessions w/Barnes at SF vs. just -4.6 when he plays the 4 a/c to Pelton. Some of that is shooting variance, but not all.

My general trade deadline/state of the Jazz thoughts below. 1. Grant & (especially) Barnes are overrated. Advanced stats have never been a big fan of either. I think Barnes is at a point in his career where he's better off guarding 4's. 2. The Jazz have nearly as good of a chance as anyone to...

I'd like to keep top-3 protections, but who knows if OKC would agree to that. The Jazz are always just a Gobert injury away from the play-in at best and lottery at worst.

Takeaways: Smart is unanimously rated as the best player of the group. Grant is probably overrated. Covington is at best a marginal upgrade over Joe. If Joe's 3pt-shooting reverts to past years' levels, Covington may not be an improvement at all. Probably not enough of an improvement to merit a...

RAPTOR (538) Off Def Total Smart .7 1.7 2.4 Grant -1.4 -1.1 -2.5 Covington -1.8 1.9 .1 Ingles 0 -1.3 -1.2 Bojan .6 -2.7 -2.2 Clarkson 1.6 -.9 .7

LEBRON (Bball-index) Off Def Total Smart .11 1.09 1.20 Grant -.69 .55 -.14 Covington -1.8 2.07 .27 Ingles .28 -.84 -.56 Bojan 1.78 -1.30 .48 Clarkson 1.59 -.109 .5

EPM Off Def Total Smart -.3 2.6 2.3 Grant -.2 .9 .7 Covington -2.3 2.1 -0.2 Ingles -0.8 -0.8 -1.6 Bojan 2.1 -1.3 .7 Clarkson 0.3 -0.5 -0.3

I'll go on record as saying I'd be thrilled to trade Bogey for Smart. Nothing against BB, but I think Smart is the better all-around player.