While I am normally really into the NBA draft this year I have noticed I suffered a draft hang over from the never ending 2020 draft. I am just starting to research this draft and my early feeling is that it will be a really difficult class to project. The top 5 players all look like studs who would have been near locks to go #1 in 2020. My next 3 Barnes, Johnson, and Wagner feel like solid picks given their youth and the positional value of big wings. After those first 8 picks this class becomes wide open. I'm basing a lot of my early rankings off of the pick ranges currently predicted by Chad Ford, over time this will evolve into more of my tiered board.
I highligted some players who I like as possible Celtics
1 Cunningham
2 Mobley
3 Suggs
4 Kuminga
5 Green
6 Barnes
7 J Johnson
8 F Wagner
9 D Mitchell
10 K Johnson
11 Kisper
12 M Moody
13 K Jones
14 I Jackson
15 Cooper
16 Bouknight
17 Garuba
18 Giddey
19 Sengun very young and productive Turkich center, if he can shoot could be a nice starter in NBA
20 J Butler
21 J Springer young combo guard who needs to improve shot but has intriguing physical profile
22 C Thomas
23 G Brown 6'9 super athlete raw but plays a high value position
24 Z Williams kind of flopped based of highschool hype but has high ceiling
25 J Christopher
26 Santos big Brazilian wing who reportedly can shoot
27 Juzang
28 J Ayayi
29 Prkacin
30 Boston didn't produce in college but was a preseason lotto porspect, elite athlete
31 T Mann
32 M Mayer
33 M Bagely only played 12 games this season but showed potential as a big 3pt shooting wing
34 Dosunmu
35 T Clarke
36 Petrusev
37 Duke
38 D Johnson
39 McBride
40 Nix
41 Queta
42 Shannon Jr
43 Sharpe
44 Huff could be a more athletic Kornet
45 Hukporti
46 Begarun
47 Robinson-Earl
48 Jokubaitis
49 Bassey
50 Mathurin
51 A Henry
52 M Hurt
53 S Lewis
54 Pons