Okay, so I know that this article goes against my own interests.
But given that more than half of Americans vote against their own interests, I guess I am par for the course.
All joking aside, let me put this out there: I really do love writing mock drafts.
I think that the time right before the draft is like Christmas Eve. The anticipation is killing us, and all we want to do is make sense of things and figure out if our team got that shiny new toy we all had our eyes on.
And just like Christmas, the main event rarely lives up to the anticipation.
But that's okay; the anticipation is really all that we usually remember anyway.
In the case of mock drafts, a few things throw a monkey wrench in the whole Christmas analogy.
Current is never current
Just like how it is impossible to know how long your technology will be relevant, so too are mock drafts.
Last night, the desk assigned me an article detailing the likelihood that each draft pick would be dealt.
Personally, I really liked this topic, and so I gave it a whirl.
Things were coming along nic ...
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NBA Draft: Why Inevitable Wheeling and Dealing Makes Mock Drafts Total Wastes
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