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Brad’s NBA Mock Draft 2010

Posted by deaconcat08 on June 24, 2010

I’m not a big NBA fan, but the NBA draft is my favorite of all the professional drafts.  It is also the only one for which I publish my own “mock draft”, as you can see below.  These picks represent a hybrid what I think will happen and what should happen.  For instance, I don’t think John Wall should be the top pick of the draft, but we all he is going to be so I had to put him at # 1.  However, for picks that are far less certain, I tend to evaluate each team’s strengths and weaknesses and then make an educated guess as to who they should take.  Here are my predictions.

Round 1

1 Washington John Wall (PG- Kentucky)
2 Philadelphia Evan Turner (SG- Ohio State)
3 New Jersey Wesley Johnson (SF- Syracuse)
4 Minnesota Derrick Favors (PF- Georgia Tech)
5 Sacramento DeMarcus Cousins (PF- Kentucky)
6 Golden State Greg Monroe (C- Georgetown)
7 Detroit Ekpe Udoh (PF- Baylor)
8 L.A. Clippers Al-Faroq Aminu (SF- Wake Forest)
9 Utah Paul George (SF- Fresno State)
10 Indiana Ed Davis (PF- North Carolina)
11 New Orleans Xavier Henry (SG- Kansas)
12 Memphis Luke Babbitt (SF- Nevada)
13 Toronto Cole Aldrich (C- Kansas)
14 Houston Patrick Patterson (PF- Kentucky)
15 Milwaukee Gordon Hayward (SF- Butler)
16 Minnesota Damion James (SF- Texas)
17 Chicago James Anderson (SG- OK St.)
18 Oklahoma City Avery Bradley (SG- Texas)
19 Boston Elliot Williams (SG- Memphis)
20 San Antonio Hassan Whiteside (C- Marshall)
21 Oklahoma City Daniel Orton (PF- Kentucky)
22 Portland Lance Stephenson (SG- Cincinnati)
23 Minnesota Solomon Alabi (C- Florida State)
24 Atlanta Armon Johnson (PG- Nevada)
25 Memphis Dominique Jones (SG- USF)
26 Oklahoma City Tibor Pleiss (C- Germany)
27 New Jersey Jordan Crawford (SG- Xavier)
28 Memphis Quincy Pondexter (SF- Washington)
29 Orlando Darington Hobson (SF- New Mexico)
30 Washington Stanley Robinson (SF- Connecticut)

 

Round 2

1 New Jersey Larry Sanders (PF- VCU)
2 Miami Devin Ebaks (SF- West Virginia)
3 Sacramento Jerome Jordan (C- Tulsa)
4 Portland Lazard Hayward (SF- Marquette)
5 Washington Trevor Booker (PF- Clemson)
6 Detroit Keith Gallon (PF- Oklahoma)
7 Milwaukee Kevin Seraphin (PF- France)
8 New York Grevis Vazquez (PG- Maryland)
9 New York Gani Lawal (PF- Georgia Tech)
10 Indiana Eric Bledsoe (PG- Kentucky)
11 Miami Terico White (PG- Ole Miss)
12 Miami Craig Brackins (PF- Iowa State)
13 L.A. Lakers Dexter Pittman (C- Texas)
14 Milwaukee Willie Warren (SG- Oklahoma)
15 Minnesota Mikhail Torrance (PG- Alabama)
16 Phoenix Nemanja Bjelica (SF- Serbia)
17 Milwaukee Jerome Randle (PG- Cal)
18 Miami Charles Garcia (SF- Seattle)
19 San Antonio Thomas Heurtel (PG- France
20 Dallas Miroslav Radujica (C- Russia)
21 Oklahoma City Sherron Collins (PG- Kansas)
22 Boston Matt Bouldin (PG- Gonzaga)
23 Atlanta Samardo Samuels (C- Louisville)
24 L.A. Clippers Alexey Shved (PG- Russia)
25 Utah Jarvis Varnardo (PF- Miss. St.)
26 Minnesota Manny Harris (SG- Michigan)
27 Indiana Da’Sean Butler (SF- West Virginia)
28 L.A. Lakers Sylven Landesburg (SG- Virginia)
29 Orlando Luke Harangody (PF- Notre Dame)
30 Phoenix Arstiom Parakhouski (C- Radford)

 

Personal Records:

Total Correct Picks (right person, right team, right #): 11 (2007)

Predicting the Draftees: 90% (2008)

Round 1 and 2 Flip Flops (the lower, the better): 4 (2008)