Tonight will be a night where young men’s basketball dreams are realized, as they will be drafted into the NBA. We’ve given our readers thoughts on how tonight’s draft will end once the dust settles, but we wanted to go one step further and see how the draft would go if these fictional basketball players were on the board from some of our beloved moves.
Before we get starts there is one rule to what characters are not eligible to be included in Sneaker Reporter’s Fictional Mock Draft, and that is if the player is from a basketball movie based on real-life players, for example, any players from Disney’s Glory Road seeing that this movie was based off the improbable run of Texas Western College (now known as University of Texas at El Paso or UTEP) to win NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship.
So let’s get started…
1. Detroit – Neon Boudreaux, Blue Chips
2. Houston – Moses Guthrie, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
3. Cleveland – Jesus Shuttlesworth, He Got Game
4. Toronto – Butch McRea, Blue Chips
5. Orlando – Ty Crane, Coach Carter
6. Oklahoma City – Will Smith, The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
7. Golden State (from Minnesota)- Erick Scott, High Flying Bird
8. Orlando (from Chicago) – Rick Roe, Blue Chips
9. Sacramento – Terron Forte, Amateur
10. New Orleans – Junior Battle, Coach Carter
11. Charlotte – Saleh, The Air Up There
12. San Antonio – Clarence Withers aka Coffee Black, Semi-Pro
13. Indiana – Jimmy Chitwood, Hoosiers
14. Golden State – Marcus Stokes, Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
15. Washington – Steve Urkel, Family Matters
16. Oklahoma City (from Boston) – Kenyon Stone, Coach Carter
17. Memphis – Odin James, ‘O’
18. Oklahoma City (from Miami via the LA Clippers, Philadelphia, and Phoenix) – Brian, Thunderstruck
19. New York – Stacey Patton, Eddie (1996)
20. Atlanta – Cam Calloway, Survivor’s Remorse
21. New York (from Dallas) – Kyle Lee Watson, Above The Rim
22. Los Angeles Lakers – Quincy McCall, Love & Basketball
23. Houston (from Portland) – Scott McKnight, Just Wright
24. Houston (from Milwaukee) – Lonnie Dukes, He Got Game
25. LA Clippers – Calvin Cambridge, Like Mike
26. Denver – Billy Hoyle, White Men Can’t Jump
27. Brooklyn- Sidney Deane, White Men Can’t Jump
28. Philadelphia- Kenny Taylor, The 6th Man
29. Phoenix – Todd Anderson, The Cookout
30. Utah – Lewis Scott, Celtic Pride
The making of this list was really fun to create let’s not forget in only a few hours from the resetting of the schedule, and certain trade scenarios will be growing into reality in the coming hours leading up to tonight’s draft. Cade Cunningham is the prominent selection at No. 1 in a lot of people’s top projections, but from picks two and below, that’s where it can get a little tricky. There’s no certainty over what can, or will happen during one of the NBA’s most unpredictable nights.
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