Throw the NBA's 2016 draft lottery odds out the window. Sussing out the perfect matches for this year's best college prospects and teams, almost regardless of lottery positioning, is the focus here.
Our top seven prospects, listed alphabetically, will be based off Bleacher Report's Jonathan Wasserman's mock draft. Their destinations, however, are up for grabs.
Eligible teams must be projected lottery squads, to be sure. But that's all they have to be. The only other rule: Each team can be selected only once.
Proposed fits are mostly about the player and where his skill set would be best utilized as a rookie if he had his pick of the lottery litter.
Dragan Bender, Croatia, PF/C: New Orleans Pelicans
While the New Orleans Pelicans have a pressing need for another wing, they're due for upgrades at just about every position.
Ryan Anderson is slated for unrestricted free agency and bound to price himself out of The Big Easy, while neither Alexis Ajinca nor Omer Asik provides the spacing necessary to maximize the Pelicans' offensive potential with Anthony Davis.
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