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This is the draft thread. Just post your team and who you chose with you pick. 1st round time limit is 2 hours per pick, 2nd round time limit is 1 hour per pick. After the time limit, if your team hasn't chosen, the next highest player on draftexpress.com 's top 100 list will go to you. We will take a break from the draft from 11:00 PM EST to 7:00 AM EST so people don't miss their picks.

The order of the draft is:

1st Round
1. CLE (Kyrie Irving)
2. MIL (Derrick Williams)
3. UTA (Kemba Walker)
4. MIL (Brandon Knight)
5. TOR (Jonas Valanciunas)
6. WAS (Enes Kanter)
7. IND (Alec Burks)
8. DET (Jan Vesely)
9. CHA (Donatas Motiejunas)
10. MIL (Bismack Biyombo)
11. LAL (Kawhi Leonard)
12. UTA (Jordan Hamilton)
13. PHX (Tristan Thompson)
14. HOU (Jimmer Fredette)
15. IND (Chris Singleton)
16. PHI (Markieff Morris)
17. HOU (Marcus Morris)
18. WAS (Tobias Harris)
19. MIN (Klay Thompson)
20. MIN (Lucas Nogueira)
21. CLE (Kenneth Faried)
22. DEN (Nikola Mirotic)
23. NY (Reggie Jackson)
24. DEN (Davis Bertans)
25. BOS (Josh Selby)
26. DAL (Justin Harper)
27. IND (Darius Morris)
28. CHI (Jordan Williams)
29. SA (Tyler Honeycutt)
30. POR (Trey Thompkins)

2nd Round
31. MIL (Nolan Smith)
32. CLE (Bojan Bogdanovic)
33. MEM (Charles Jenkins)
34. WAS (Travis Leslie)
35. CHA (Jereme Richmond)
36. MIL (JuJaun Johnson)
37. LAC (Iman Shumpert)
38. HOU (Gary Flowers)
39. CHA (Nikola Vucevic)
40. ORL (Keith Benson)
41. LAL (Shelvin Mack)
42. NJ (Kyle Singler)
43. CHI (Jeremy Tyler)
44. GSW (Jimmy Butler)
45. NO (E'Twaun Moore)
46. LAL (Malcom Lee)
47. LAC (Norris Cole)
48. ATL (Ben Hansbrough)
49. MEM (Xavi Rabaseda)
50. PHI (Marshon Brooks)
51. POR (Demetri McCamey)
52. DET (Isaiah Thomas)
53. ORL (John Leuer)
54. CLE (Dallevadova)
55. BOS (Augusto Cesar Lima)
56. LAL (Chandler Parsons)
57. DAL (David Lighty)
58. LAL (Andrew Goudelock)
59. SA (DeAndre Liggins)
60. SAC (Robin Benzing)

And let the 2011 NBA Draft begin.

With the 1st pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Cleveland Cavaliers select:

Kyrie Irving from Duke.

(He told me via AIM who he wanted)

With the 2nd pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Milwaukee Bucks select:



Derrick Williams, SF, Arizona

With the fact that we don't have a GM for the Jazz, we will go by the next player on the DX board.

With the 3rd pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Utah Jazz select:

Kemba Walker out of Uconn.

With the 4th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Milwaukee Bucks select:



Brandon Knight, PG, Kentucky

With the fact that we don't have a GM for the Raptors, we will go by the next player on the DX board.

With the 5th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Toronto Raptors select:

Jonas Valanciunas out of Lietuvos Rytas

Kanter is a man. He destroyed everyone at the Nike Hoops Summit, and will likely go top 3 in RL so we get a steal here (we think). We will likely move him so get in your offers.

With the 7th Pick,



Indiana reached for Alec Burks. He has great size for an SG and it'll allow Paul George to switch back to his natural position. With the lack of top potential SG in the draft, Indiana decide we're better off going for an SG at #7 and hoping to fill either SF/C at #15.

DET has emailed me his pick, as he is not able to be here for the draft.

With the 8th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft the Detroit Pistons select:

Jan Vesely out of KK Partizan Belgrade

The Charlotte Bobcats select PF Donatas Motiejunas out of Lithuania.

Donatas is an extremely talented big man whom we believe could potentially be the next Dirk Nowitzki, who many believe to be among the best players in the game today. We believe that he'll continue to develop defensively as well as he gets coaching from real NBA coaches.

With the 10th pick in the 2011, the Milwaukee Bucks select:



Bismack Biyombo, C, Congo

With the 11th pick in the 2011 NBA draft, the Los Angeles Lakers select Kawhi Leonard of San Diego State University.



We're very surprised Leonard slipped this far, since many scouts are saying he could be a top 5 pick now. He's exactly the kind of defensive, rebounding, and energy playing coming off the bench for us.

edit my bad, umm

jordan hamilton

The Suns have given me there top choices via email.

With the 13th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Phoenix Suns selects Tristan Thompson out of Texas.

With the 14th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Houston Rockets select...

Jimmer Fredette out of Brigham Young University.



At #14 of this year's draft, we avoid drafting for need, and take who we feel will hold value for us both on the court and as a trading chip. We just couldn't resist passing up on who many felt was the best player in college basketball this previous season. We see him as a microwave scorer and if he works hard and adapts to the NBA game, will be in contention for 6th man of the year sometime down the road either for us or for another team.

Indiana select Chris Singleton out of Florida State with #15 pick. We like his defensive potential and believe that given time and training he can become a servicable offensive option that'll keep offense honest.


The winning mentality helps as well.

Philly has told me who he wants for his pick via email.

With the 16th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Philadelphia 76ers select:

Markieff Morris out of Kansas

With the 17th pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, the Houston Rockets select...

Marcus Morris out of Kansas.



When looking to move Luis Scola, we wanted to acquire a young big with an offensive arsenal to replace him at the power forward position. Luckily, we were able to do that when we acquired the 17th pick with Marcus Morris. Most mock drafts have Marcus somewhere from 1-11, so we feel like we're getting great value here. He is one of the most NBA ready players and will fit in nicely with our young team. He has shown he can hurt you with a variety of moves from the post, hit turnaround fadeaways, and hit jump shots when needed. His motor will make up for some of his poor measurements.

We will now pause the clock. The clock will start up again at 7:00 AM EST tomorrow morning, meaning the ATL pick has to be in by 9:00 AM EST tomorrow.

Because of some trade problems, we don't know who has the 18th pick. WAS traded it to GS, who traded it to ATL, but since the WAS/GS deal wasn't valid, we do not know who this belongs to. we will have to wait to see if WAS/GS work out there deal, if they don't this pick is WAS's, if it does, this pick is ATL's.