Welcome to Pounding the Rock’s countdown to the NBA Draft Lottery, which is now only a week away! Each day, we will be running a Mock Draft in Tankathon‘s draft simulator and exploring what the Spurs could do in each of their possible landing spots, beginning with the 7th overall pick today. After about 10-15 times running the simulator (not that I counted), the Spurs finally landed at 7th, and here were the results:
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Wow. This looks Adam Silver’s pet project and the anti-tanker’s dream. The bottom FIVE teams (Pistons, Rockets, Spurs, Hornets and Trail Blazers) all fall to their worst possible slots, and the Mavs’ extremely late tank job backfires as they lose their top-10 protected pick.