NBA Mock Draft mania is now in full swing as the season is officially over and the NBA Draft is fast approaching - Thursday July 22 to be exact. While you will mostly see a top-down system for ranking players, Chad Ford and ESPN Insider have developed a tier system based on similar systems used by several NBA teams, and which he compiled talking to numerous scouts and having them rank players.
The tiers are as follows:
Tier 1 - Potential superstars*
Tier 2 - Potential All-Stars
Tier 3 - NBA starters
Tier 4 - Starters/High-level rotation players
Tier 5 - Rotation players
Tier 6 - Potential first-rounders
The tiers that affect the Detroit Pistons the most in this year’s draft are tiers 2 and 3.