Slam vs. Freaknick: Whose Mock Draft Sucked Less?

By: Nick Gibson / @euro_adventures

Looking for a new way to waste time? Well, when the draft rolls around next year, mock up an NBA Draft. Sixty players fill sixty slots, and it’s usually about as arbitrary as “Team X could use a [insert position of need].  Player Y and Player Z both play that position. I like Player Y more than Player Z, therefore…”

Do that 59 more times and you’ve successfully mocked it out, throwing out a beautiful June day in the process. And we wonder why our nation’s collective gut hangs over its britches.

Seeing as Slam and I are both geeky and competitive, the stage was set for a duel: whose wasted time could yield more accurate results? We figured out a scoring method as arbitrary as the picks themselves and duked it out. But before we release the results, some of the stranger/funnier/more pathetic moments of the night:

• Tristan Thompson leaps half the board to land in Cleveland, America’s nicest city besides the other ones. Slam had him 16th, I had him 18th, giving us a combined 26-pick whiff.
• Our 24-27 picks all had the same foursome of players—Bogdanovic, Tyler Honeycutt, Jeremy Tyler, Josh Selby—yet not a single one event went in the first round.
• Slam had Cory Joseph at #49. I had him in Europe or the D-League. He went 30th to the Spurs and should have a role next year with George Hill on his way to Indiana. (Oops.)
• Players we both had getting drafted  that didn’t get drafted: Malcolm Thomas, LaceDarius Dunn, Robin Benzing, Rick Jackson, Matthew Bryan-Amaning, Michael Dunigan.
• Players neither of us had getting drafted that did get drafted: Tanguy Ngombo, Jon Diebler, Milan Macvan, Chu Chu Maduabaum, Ater Majok, Isaiah Thomas, Lavoy Allen, Josh Harrellson

And the winner is…

Freaknick’s Mock Draft Results

First Round = 29 points; Second Round = 19 points
TOTAL: 48 points

Slam’s Mock Draft

First Round = 16 points; Second Round = 12 points
TOTAL: 28