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I was just wondering if we've worked anyone out? There's a lot of speculation were trying to get into the draft and take someone. Do we take them without ever working them out?

For the # 58 pick, probably the team has some players in mind, but might not want to draw attention lest the player get taken before 58. I don't know who they've actually worked out. It's not a big priority this year, I would think, since the 2nd rounder has little chance to play this year.

As for trading up, the top players are not going to come to workout for a team that doesn't yet have a pick.

I think some of the official team sites reveal at least some of their workouts. Here's a list from DraftExpress, although I'm sure it's not complete: http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-workouts.php

The Celtics have taken players without working them out before, one example being Gerald Green. This typically happens when a player drops in the draft, since players tend to only work out for teams in the range where they think they should go. Some players avoid workouts altogether, probably because the hype is to the level that they're afraid that a workout can only hurt their prospects.

Unless Ainge buys/trades for a pick in the first round, any player selected at 58 will never see the parquet floor.

canman1971 wrote:Unless Ainge buys/trades for a pick in the first round, any player selected at 58 will never see the parquet floor.

I think that is what I was saying. With the rumors flying around, and we ended up with let's just say a top five pick................do we just take someone without working them out.

Probably not happening. Just wondering.

The individual workouts are pretty limited now mostly for the top of the lottery. Teams organize larger multi player workouts for multiple teams, I believe the Rockets did some of this earlier in the process. Each team sends representatives and they probably video it. I forget what the reasoning was but they limited the window between workouts and the draft in the last couple of years, one thing is the league realized they were blowing a lot of money flying around second round draft picks to have run around chairs and everyone decided much like ORL it was useless.

Most of the individual workouts is about getting to meet the kid and talk to him and try determine if he is a moron, axe murderer, or walks like Acie Earl.