The draft that this draft reminds me of

[Eja117]

This draft reminds me (for various reasons) of the 2004 draft. The Dwight Howard, Emeka, Al Jefferson one.

Part of the reason is that there are a ton of young players that are relative unknowns and GMs are trying to judge down the line. There are some similar themes such as upper classmen vs younger guys, so a lot of the decision points are the same.

Up at the very top I'm not sure it's quite the same. I don't see the D Howard vs Emeka decision as even slightly similar to the Ben Simmons vs Ingram thing. I feel like at the top Orlando had a pretty tough decision, where it's well established who the top talent is in this draft, but after that things get kinda funky.

Buddy Hield = Ben Gordon or Jameer Nelson
Bender = Andris Biedrins
Jamal Murray = Shaun Livingston or Sebastian Telfair
Brandon Ingram = Loul Deng
Kris Dunn = Devin Harris
Jaylen Brown = Loul Deng or Andre Iguodala
M Chriss = Josh Smith
Sabonis = Kris Humphries or Josh Childress
Jakob Poetl = Rafael Arujo sorta
Malachi Richardson = JR Smith or Dorell Wright
Henry Ellenson = Robert Swift
Stephen Zimmerman = Robert Swift
Cheik Diallo = Al Jefferson
Then Maker = maybe Dwight Howard
Firkin Kormaz and Ante Zizic = Viktor Krypapa and Sergei Monia .....the Euro stashes
Tony Allen = Gary Payton II

[PhoSita]

I could see this, in the sense that it would not be shocking if the Celts got a far superior prospect at 16 than the one they select at 3.

(eg they take Hield at 3 and then select Luwawu at 16)