The NBA Draft is just under a month away and still plenty of intrigue surrounds the top spot. Immediately following the Lottery it was suspected that the Chicago Bulls would take hometown hero Derrick Rose, but Rose’s Memphis teammate Joey Dorsey squashed that when he told reporters during pre-draft workouts that Michael Beasley would go in the top spot. There’s still a lot to be decided but here’s how things appear to be shaking out.
As we all know, the weeks leading up to the Draft can make for an overwhelming …

Ryan Anderson, the 6’10”, 235-pound forward from the University of California, is entering the 2008 NBA Draft after two stellar Pac Ten seasons and took some time to talk with Hoops Addict about how he is preparing for the NBA Draft.

Okay, so your team didn’t do so well in the playoffs. And they didn’t luck out in the draft lottery either. And they don’t even have much cap space heading into the forthcoming NBA free agent frenzy. Sounds like they’re in dire straits when it comes to improving this offseason, right? Wrong. There’s still a glut of international players that could come help your team on the cheap. Whether your team already owns the rights, via the draft, to an international player (think Luis Scola) or your GM is savvy …

Last week the NBA Lottery took place and the Chicago Bulls hit the jackpot when they secured the top spot. While there is still a lot of discussion about who the Bulls will snag, it looks like Derrick Rose could be their man. However, trade discussion are heating up, so the next month will be interesting as Miami, Chicago and countless other teams look poised to move up or out of the first round of the Draft.
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On the morning of the NBA Draft lottery at the immaculate Dr. Ephraiam Williams Family Life Center, professional basketball trainer extraordinaire Guss Armstead is putting a myriad of basketball players through a relentless pace of skill work and high energy drills. Participation in this high tempo basketball training guarantees that all particpants will have vastly improved cardio coupled with elevated hoops abilities. In the pack of perspiring streamlined athletes are the likes of NBA first round draft hopeful Ryan Anderson from the University of California working opposite NBA free agent …

Like a thief in the night, the time honored Hoops Addict Mock Draft is back online after my stealth, covert and NBA Draft fact finding psyops missions have been performed with the ramifications shared for our global at large Hoops Addict readership. While we marinated our mock I feel my readership’s pain as some online draft boards created mockery heresy in their own feeble attempts to speculate the forthcoming induction of athletes to the game we’ve come to love.
THE LOTTERY SELECTIONS
1. Miami Heat- Michael Beasley 6′9″ Power Forward Kansas …

Alphabet City is currently being spelled in the world of college basketball. The NCAA and NIT will hoop it up on USA soil to determine collegiate basketball’s champion. Universities such as KSU, UNC, UCLA, MSU, and countless other lettermen will be covered by CBS and analyzed by ESPN in the Madness matrix hex that assures high drama. I have heard the hordes hemming me up the latest NBA Mock Draft so this initial foray will be 12 teams deep with the full 30-team breakdown forthcoming shortly.

Our January 2008 mock, which has been confirmed to have been translated in a minimum of 17 languages, will yield to this current edition as we launch our new look at HoopsAddict.com. Additionally, we now feature an NBA Draft section, which will allow me to meet the global demands of my readership and provide a consistent flow of scouting reports, player developments, and coveted specialized insight.

Our Mock is just a fragment of 2008 NBA Draft treasure and like relative sheet music I will roll out 30 bars to syncopate with the 30 first round draft positions.

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 …