NBA mock draft: The Utah Jazz and our composite top 30 picks
By Ryan Aston
Business is picking up in the Association; the 2018 NBA Draft has arrived. To see who the Utah Jazz and the rest of the league’s teams might pick, we’ve pooled our data for a composite mock draft.
The 2018 NBA Draft is finally upon us and questions abound ahead of the big night. Will the Utah Jazz attempt to trade up once again for a player they like? Will they flip it for a veteran? If they stay at No. 21, is the draft really as deep as it seems?
These are some of the things Jazz GM Dennis Lindsey will be considering as he works to cement the team’s status as a contender.
Finally, who’s going No. 1 overall? Is it DeAndre Ayton? Luka Doncic? Maybe Jaren Jackson, Jr. slips in there.
Today, myself and the rest of The J-Notes crew will join forces to answer those very questions ourselves.
In the basketball blogosphere, every hoops scribe has his or her own biases and opinions as relates to draft prospects. No one person has all the answers about who the best prospects are or who will be successful at the next level. And even the best of us are going to end up looking silly in a sizable portion of our evaluations.
I’ll call foul on myself right now. Last year, I had the Boston Celtics taking Josh Jackson while Jayson Tatum fell all the way to No. 8. That was me. I did that.
So, once again, we’ve attempted to circumvent all of that by taking a “wisdom of crowds” approach to our official mock draft.
In an effort to figure out what the Jazz and the league’s 29 other teams might do, our staffers have all completed drafts, which were plugged together to comprise a composite mock draft.
Here are the results….
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