Not every NBA draft lottery is a make-or-break endeavor featuring one or two grand prizes. This year, however, falling down the order will particularly sting for downtrodden franchises needing a substantial boost.
Organizations who spent the season losing or laughing at an incompetent New York franchise will cross their fingers for the chance to snag LSU's Ben Simmons or Duke's Brandon Ingram. After that, the 2016 draft class offers more puzzle pieces than cornerstones.
As surmised by ESPN Insider Chad Ford, this will make the upcoming weeks of mocking even more cumbersome after projecting the top slots.
"By the time you get out of the top 10, you're mostly looking at potential rotation players," Ford wrote. "That means that we could see a very fluid Big Board after the top 10 leading up to draft day. Different teams have different players ranked in wildly different places. It's hard to find a consensus outside the top 10."
Without an established draft order, the top 10 also holds no certainty. Since chance is impossible to predict, let's take an early swing at the first round based on reverse standings. First, ...
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