The NBA draft, like effectively every other professional sports league draft, is an unpredictable event. While analysts and experts spend weeks and months producing mock drafts, rarely do those projections play out in real life. One team making an unexpected pick or one player slipping throws everything into chaos.
In lieu of predicting one player per team via mock draft, Bleacher Report’s Jonathan Wasserman gave a small list of the most realistic prospects for each team to draft, including Charlotte with the No. 11 pick.
The three names for the Hornets all fill various needs in wings Moses Moody from Arkansas and Keon Johnson from Tennessee and big man Isaiah Jackson of Kentucky. Moody would help fill the gap in 3-point shooting, Johnson would add another athlete to the rotation. Jackson would fill the team’s biggest need in a center.
Interestingly, Jackson would also provide the storyline of having played a season with LaMelo Ball in the past at SPIRE Institute. In that season, Jackson averaged 14.9 points and 10.4 rebounds. Last season, he made his name as a rim-protecting, lob-catching big, shooting 54% from the field and averaging 5.0 blocks per 40 minutes.
