The globally renowned HoopsAddict.com Mock Draft preview is in effect featuring the Top 20 potential NBA draft prospects that will be followed in subsequent weeks with our unique individual player breakdowns and skills analysis. Last year’s Mock Draft which featured all 30 players taken in the first round by NBA personnel managers had all appeared in our previous Mock Draft first round a season ago. Additionally 11 of the first 14 players taken in the first round were featured in our final Mock Draft.
Here goes the preliminary Top 20 for …

The 2007-2008 NBA season is in effect after a summer where banished/tarnished/disdained referee Tim Donaghy was linked to placing bets on NBA contests and leaking official data of fellow referee game locales in his trifling attempt to aid his friends in placing bets for bookie loot off David Stern’s global product.
Kudos to the Commissioner’s summer press conference (addressing Donaghy’s felonies) to offset the wide ranging rumors that manifested. Rumors prior to the Commish’ facing up to Donaghy’s exceptional betrayal of trust created such gossip that was typified by 24 shot …

The wow factor that undefined elixir that makes the greatest skeptic bow down to the engineering marvel that is the pyramids of Egypt. The wow factor that makes Michael Jordan’s aerial assault on the basketball rim appear to be gravitational ballet suspended by invisible twine. The wow factor that is Niagara Falls crashing boundlessly in a blanket of wet foam while generating electricity to the northeast of the United States, and this same wow factor that puts geneticists in awe at the beyond microscopic code to life known as human …

ESPN’s Ric “Breaking News” Bucher stated Wednesday evening that, “The Oden camp has been notified that Greg Oden will be the first pick on Thursday’s draft.” When asked by ESPN analyst Mike Tirico if it is this certain, Bucher responded, “That would be a cruel joke at this point if not true.”
Let’s think about this for a moment. Bucher said “The Oden camp has been notified by the Trailblazers.” Camp? I understand that Oden has a plethora of advisors waiting for advanced notice but at this point in the Draft …

The late great humanitarian Dr. Martin Luther King once stated, “It’s never too late to do the right thing.” Therefore the final HoopsAddict.com Mock Draft has reversed course from continually projecting Greg Oden as the top pick to the consensus NCAA National Player of the Year Kevin Durant as the best choice for overall Number one.
Durant is just too gifted a talent to bypass. Yes, Oden is that once in a lifetime center that is all too happy patrolling the painted area …

Draft Day is 13 days away and there has been a plethora of movement, momentum, and shuffling since our last Mock Draft posted on 5/23/07. Pre-draft camp has shut down and individual/group team workouts featuring draft hopefuls are in full effect. The 2007 NBA eligibles are auditioning years of basketball dedication with the single-minded intent of having the red, white, and blue NBA shield stitched to hoop attire that is worth bundles of United States greenbacks.
This year’s NBA Draft has easily been the most anticipated Draft in decades due to a phalanx of talented ballers coupled with the …

“I knew of General Manager’s who were scared to death of getting the first pick in the lottery.”
These are the words of a mentor of mine named Ed Gregory, a former long time NBA Executive and Head Coach, when we were discussing the frame of mind of some NBA front office personnel  as Draft day approached during his tenure as an NBA executive. Ed Gregory, with his keen eye for talent drafted the likes of Mark Price, Ron Harper, and Brad Daugherty while scouting for the Cleveland Cavaliers. Gregory , while employed …

The NBA Draft recently conducted the Draft lottery where million dollar businesses (a.k.a. NBA franchises) attained their draft fate nigh small featherweight orbs evacuated through a vacuumed vent via a plexi-glass contraption that approximate an igloo visually. Moreover, the choicest Draft pick taken a year ago was chosen at 47th and suits up for the Utah Jazz.
Last summer the Jazz drafted the only player in NCAA Division 1 history to lead the nation in rebounding three consecutive years. Utah actualized a player that shot 52 percent from the field …

The ping-pong balls have spoken and the Lottery order has manifested with two franchises from the Pacific Northwest being the sweepstakes winners for the Oden/Durant bonanza. Portland has the number one pick and will undoubtedly seek to blaze new trails with character guy and 7-footer Greg Oden. Seattle will attain the super sonic scoring capacities of Kevin Durant.
Tough luck fell to the Grizzlies, Celtics, and Bucks who many alleged “tanked” the final portion of the regular season to attain better odds for the ping pong ball crap shoot which would …

Jamaal Tatum was the Missouri Valley Conference Most Valuable Player and leader of a Southern Illinois University Basketball team that went 29-7 and ventured into the hallowed March Madness hardwood known as the Sweet 16. He had been in the City of Sacramento less than 24 hours (after a red-eye flight) when I caught up with the 6′2″ point guard. Upon my arrival to the workout site Tatum was already drenched in a “5th quarter sweat” while tuning up his skills and conditioning while training in a cavernous hoop basketball …