The NBA draft process moves swiftly from the time the combine starts in mid-May to the time of the event on June 26. All of the hard work put in by scouts and talent evaluators pays off, hopefully in a positive way for teams, in those few hours when the commissioner steps up to the podium.
Because of how much work goes into identifying talent that will help a team win a championship, the idea of an "easy" selection in the first round sounds cheap and diminishes what these people are doing.
However, it's precisely because of how effective scouts are that we can look at a mock draft and immediately think, "Of course this pick makes all the sense in the world." That's what we are going to do with our latest breakdown of the first round, with analysis of why these 30 picks are so simple.
1. Cleveland Cavaliers: Joel Embiid, C, Kansas
There's likely to be a lot of debate in Cleveland's draft room before making this pick, especially after the debacle that was Anthony Bennett last year, but Joel Embiid is the only player who makes sense here.
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NBA Mock Draft 2014: Breaking Down Easiest 1st-Round Selections
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