Larry's 1996 Projected Draft

1996 Projected Draft

Summary: I nailed 10 of the 13 lottery picks and the top 6 (in a slightly different order). I also got 24 of the 29 first rounders right. 4 of the 5 first-rounders I projected went with the first 4 picks of the second round: Othella Harrington, Ryan Minor, Mark Hendrickson and Moochie Norris. Drew Barry was the only pick I was WAY off on. I had him at 29, he went at 57.
Key: Italicized picks were right on.
Bold picks were one off up or down
  1. Allen Iverson PG (Philadelphia)
  2. Shareef Abdur-Rahim SF/PF (Toronto)
  3. Marcus Camby PF (Vancouver) *Camby and Shareef could flip-flop
  4. Stephon Marbury PG (Milwaukee)
  5. Antoine Walker PF/SF (Minnesota) *I'd take Allen
  6. Ray Allen SG (Boston) *They would be happy with him, Antoine if gone
  7. Erick Dampier C (LA Clippers)
  8. Kerry Kittles SG (New Jersey)
  9. Lorenzen Wright PF (Dallas)
  10. John Wallace SF (Indiana)
  11. Todd Fuller C (Golden State) *looking hard at Rentzias too
  12. Zydrunas Ilgauskas C (Cleveland)
  13. Steve Nash PG (Charlotte) *could take PF then Nash or Kobe at 16
  14. Samaki Walker PF (Sacramento)
  15. Kobe Bryant SG (Phoenix)
  16. Vitaly Potapenko PF/C (Charlotte)
  17. Jerome Williams SF/PF (Portland)
  18. Walter McCarty SF (New York)
  19. Moochie Norris PG (New York)
  20. Dontae' Jones SF (Cleveland)
  21. Roy Rogers PF (New York)
  22. Ryan Minor SF (Vancouver)
  23. Brian Evans SF (Denver)
  24. Jermaine O'Neal PF (LA Lakers)
  25. Efthimis Rentzias C (Utah)
  26. Priest Lauderdale C (Detroit)
  27. Mark Hendrickson PF (Orlando)
  28. Othella Harrington PF (Atlanta)
  29. Drew Barry PG/SG (Chicago)
  30. Tony Delk PG/SG (Houston)
  31. Steve Hamer C (Philadelphia)
  32. Jeff McInnis PG (Philadelphia)
  33. Travis Knight C (Whatever Center is left) (Milwaukee)
  34. Ronnie Henderson SG (Dallas)
  35. Pedrag Stoyakovich SG (Seattle)
  36. Jason Sasser SF (LA Clippers)
  37. Eric Gingold C (Denver)
  38. Darnell Robinson C (Boston)
  39. Doron Sheffer PG/SG (Denver)
  40. Shandon Anderson SF (Golden State)
  41. Randy Livingstone PG (Sacramento)
  42. Arthur Long PF (Houston)
  43. Russ Millard C/PF (Phoenix)
  44. Carlos Strong PF (Charlotte)
  45. Reggie Geary PG (Seattle)
  46. Marcus Brown SG/PG (Portland)
  47. Joseph Blair PF (Seattle)
  48. Amal McCaskil PF (Philadelphia)
  49. Ron Riley SF/SG (Orlando)
  50. Chucky Atkins PG (Houston)
  51. Frangiskos Alvertis SG/SF (Vancouver)
  52. Derek Fisher SG (Indiana)
  53. Kebu Stewart PF (Milwaukee)
  54. Randy Edney C (Utah)
  55. Johnny Rhodes SG (Washington)
  56. Dante Calabria SG (Cleveland)
  57. Marcus Mann PF (Seattle)
  58. Marcus Pope PF (Dallas)

Honorable Mention for getting drafted late in the second round: Terquin Mott (PF), Tim Moore (SF), Jason Osbourne (SF), Malik Rose (SF), Kevin Granger (PG) and Ben Davis (PF).

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