Deandre Ayton is a near-lock to go number one overall. How do we see the remaining lottery picks shaking out?
Excitement, hope, optimism.
The NBA Draft brings all those feelings out, especially for the fans of the worst teams in the league. The enthusiasm this time of year is contagious, and we could not let this time pass up without putting together a mock draft, numberFire style.
Our mock draft has numbers making the majority of our decisions as we use statistics and advanced analytics to decide which direction the franchises go. We get the bulk of the figures for this mock from 82games' positional production, net differences according to player efficiency rating (PER), and our very own nERD metric.