if i were magic id draft markkanen 4th and try to get bryant crawford 23rd
trade aaron gordon and vucevic
starting lineup of payton, fournier, ross, markkanen, biyombo
give more minutes to hezonja, make crawford the flex bench PG that you have been doing with payton/augustin
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Originally Posted by yellowfever
As "lol" as you may think that makes him hes been one of the best nba draft scouts in the business for awhile now. This is the exact same mock that he writes for draftexpress he just added commentary on it for yahoo where he got hired for the vertical last season fwiw.
a lot of his mock makes sense when you consider fit, because he presumes that gordon and vucevich and biyombo are all gonna still be there so why would you put markkanen in that environment. then you see philly is next (they have saric and hopefully embiid so it doesnt fit), then sacramento (skal and WCS) then knicks (need PG)
my take is he absolutely should not get past the Knicks, Markkanen/Porzingis is so intriguing and there are a plethora of guards you can plug in or pay something near the midlevel by dumping rose.