With the college season over and the NBA season winding down, it’s time again to start focusing on the draft. Like last season, I’m going to do multiple installments of my Grizzlies draft board following each step in the process: the lottery selection, the pre-draft combine, the individual workouts. Unlike last season, I expect some significant changes to the following list.
Last year, the only big difference between my initial draft list and my final one was moving Anthony Randolph off the board after seeing his individual workout (and getting a sense of how much of a project he was going to be). But this is a more difficult draft to get a handle on and I’ve watched less college basketball than I did last season, so I expect to learn a lot more over the next two months that will impact my thinking on the draft.
So, consider this a very preliminary ranking of who the Grizzlies should be looking at in the lottery. I’m going nine deep on the list, because #9 is the lowest the Grizzlies will possibly be picking. I’ll have a follow-up post in the coming days on players to potentially target with the team’s two later picks.
