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 for the Pelicans with their No. 10 pick.
The three names listed for New Orleans Moses Moody, Keon Johnson and Davion Mitchell, three guards with varying skillsets. With the Pelicans having a pair of guards entering restricted free agency in Josh Hart and Lonzo Ball, the team could look to draft a guard that would ease the pressure on them to match offer sheets for both.
Moody would provide the team with 3-point shooting that they desperately needed last season. Johnson would give them athleticism on the wing the Pelicans did not have during the season and Mitchell would give the team defense that they lacked at any position last year.
However, while these players may be realistic, the Pelicans may not even be interested in drafting as they could look to trade the draft pick for immediate help.
