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The NBA draft is tomorrow and while there’s no question who the #1 pick will be there still seems to be some question on which player is going to go at #2.

The San Antonio Spurs hold the first pick in the draft and there’s no doubt whatsoever that they’ll be drafting Victor Wembanyama the 7-foot 4-inch wing player from France. It would probably be the biggest shock in NBA draft history if San Antonio picked someone else.

The Charlotte Hornets currently hold the 2nd pick in the draft. If Charlotte keeps the pick, it appears that they’ll select either Brandon Miller the small forward from Alabama or Scoot Henderson the point guard who played for the G-League Ignite last season.

It’s apparently been reported that Charlotte has interest in both players, so their selection may come right down to the wire on who they end up going with.

The Portland Trailblazers are the team with the 3rd pick in the draft and it seems as though the Trailblazers will select which ever player that Charlotte leaves for them.

Like any draft in any sport, you just never know how these top players will work out, but they appear to be the best three players in this draft and will go #1, #2 and #3 in some order tomorrow.

What seems to be a topic of conversation lately is will any team find a late round draft pick that will turn into a top tier NBA type of player.

The reason that this conversation started was because we just had two later round picks met in the NBA Finals. Nikola Jokic of the Denver Nuggets was the 41st pick in the in the 2014 NBA draft. Besides the recently won NBA title Jokic was named MVP of the NBA Finals he also won back-to-back regular season MVP awards 2021 and 2022. The comical aspect to Jokic being drafted is the fact that the Nuggets pick was announced on the crawler while a Taco Bell commercial was on.

Jimmy Butler was also a later round draft pick, but he was still a 1st round pick. Butler was the 30th pick of the of the 2011 draft. Butler has been to two NBA Finals and was named MVP of the Eastern conference finals in these past playoffs.

It seems as though it’s tougher to find a gem later in the NBA draft than it is in the other drafts, but Jokic and Butler have both turned into top NBA players despite their later draft selections.

Do you have plans to watch the NBA draft? Since it’s just two rounds it’s one of the easier drafts to watch. If you are going to watch, will you watch the entire draft? Since I’m not the biggest NBA fan I’ll just check in from time to time to see who’s picking and catch up on who’s been drafted on the crawler at the bottom of the screen.

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