{"id":19249,"date":"2021-07-28T11:38:59","date_gmt":"2021-07-28T16:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/?p=19249"},"modified":"2021-07-29T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-29T15:20:33","slug":"2021-nba-draft-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/2021-nba-draft-draft\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 NBA Draft and Trade Buzz = Hot Stove Is SO HAWT Right Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19275 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-nba-draft-1.png\" alt=\"2021 NBA Draft Logo\" width=\"667\" height=\"546\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-nba-draft-1.png 667w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-nba-draft-1-600x491.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19275 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-nba-draft-1.png\" alt=\"2021 NBA Draft Logo\" width=\"667\" height=\"546\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-nba-draft-1.png 667w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/2021-nba-draft-1-600x491.png 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 667px) 100vw, 667px\" \/><\/noscript><\/p>\n<h1>It&#8217;s the end of July and we&#8217;re 24 hoursish away from the 2021 NBA Draft and Free Agency&#8230;wait what?\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t it just baseball season?<\/h1>\n<p><em>No you big &#8220;casual&#8221; fan<\/em>, it&#8217;s the juicy part of the NBA steak time &#8211; so get your fork and knife and let&#8217;s dig in!<\/p>\n<h2>2021 NBA Draft Buzz&#8230;<\/h2>\n<p>This year&#8217;s NBA Draft is said to be one of the strongest in years and the depth of potential studs is causing the trade winds to blow like an F5 Twister with Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt upside down in the eye of the storm 48 hours away from the first pick Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>We clearly have tiers of strength like any other draft but the top 4 players are said to be good enough to be number one picks in your average draft.<\/p>\n<h2>The 2021 NBA Draft Lottery Order:<\/h2>\n<ol>\n<li>\n<div class=\"td_text_columns_two_cols\">Detroit Pistons<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<div class=\"td_text_columns_two_cols\">\n<p>2. Houston Rockets<\/p>\n<p>3. Cleveland Cavaliers<\/p>\n<p>4. Toronto Raptors<\/p>\n<p>5. Orlando Magic<\/p>\n<p>6. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p>7. Golden State Warriors<\/p>\n<p>8. Orlando Magic<\/p>\n<p>9. Sacramento Kings<\/p>\n<p>10. Memphis Grizzlies (via New Orleans trade 7\/26)<\/p>\n<p>11. Charlotte Hornets<\/p>\n<p>12. San Antonio Spurs<\/p>\n<p>13. Indiana Pacers<\/p>\n<p>14. Golden State Warriors<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Players leading the top tier and consensus 1-4 mock draft order picks are is as follows: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Cade Cunningham, Jalen Green, Evan Mobley &amp; Jalen Suggs.<\/p>\n<p>About every team is looking to move up in the first round since the top of the draft is so stacked and especially the top 4!<\/p>\n<p>Several teams have multiple picks in this draft such as Houston, Orlando, OKC, Golden State &amp; New York so the posturing amongst the order to make trades has the rumor mill going bananas.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A second tier of picks 5-7 has formed with:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Scottie Barnes, Jonathan Kuminga and James Bouknight but even that isn&#8217;t certain.<\/p>\n<p>The strangest part of this draft is the talent being spread out so much that you can&#8217;t really differentiate between picks 8-20 so everyone wants in to get &#8220;their guy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2>Bold prediction: I believe we&#8217;ll have more trades in this 2021 NBA Draft that any other draft in NBA history.<\/h2>\n<h3><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">2021 Draft Trade Rumors:<\/span><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Detroit has said they&#8217;re not settled on Cade but that&#8217;s just smoke, C&#8217;mon man!!!<\/li>\n<li>Houston is rumored to be high on Jalen Green but the real talk begins with Cleveland and Toronto who are feeling out teams and gauging how much they could get to trade down with many teams lining up at the door, namely teams such as Orlando and OKC armed with several picks and a desire to make waves to get their rebuilds going double time.<\/li>\n<li>Golden State, armed with picks 7 &amp; 14 to trade with last years pick James Wiseman, are said to be &#8220;star hunting&#8221; to make one last ride like Fast &amp; Furious with Steph, Klay &amp; Draymond, which just like the movie series seems like they&#8217;ll never go away.<\/li>\n<li>Bradley Beal is tops among their wish list if he ends up requesting a trade with Damian Lillard seemingly holding firm in Portland, for now.<\/li>\n<li>We had a trade between Memphis (17th pick) and New Orleans (10th pick) swapping picks and several players in Jonas Valanciunas for Steven Adams &amp; Eric Bledsoe just to get the pot stirred up a bit but don&#8217;t worry because there is more coming so go get the big spoon fatty.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Here are the remaining non-lottery picks\/teams:<\/h2>\n<div class=\"td_text_columns_two_cols\">\n<p>15. Washington Wizards<\/p>\n<p>16. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p>17. New Orleans Pelicans (via Memphis)<\/p>\n<p>18. Oklahoma City Thunder<\/p>\n<p>19. New York Knicks<\/p>\n<p>20. Atlanta Hawks<\/p>\n<p>21. New York Knicks<\/p>\n<p>22. L.A. Lakers<\/p>\n<p>23. Houston Rockets<\/p>\n<p>24. Houston Rockets<\/p>\n<p>25. L.A. Clippers<\/p>\n<p>26. Denver Nuggets<\/p>\n<p>27. Brooklyn Nets<\/p>\n<p>28. Philadelphia 76ers<\/p>\n<p>29. Phoenix Suns<\/p>\n<p>30. 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