NBA Mock Draft 2015: Magic win No. 3 pick

With the NBA playoffs winding down and the 2015 NBA Draft rapidly approaching, here is a mock draft that illustrates which NBA prospects will go where come late June.

The NBA Draft is right around the corner. Which means the teams who are sitting at home watching the playoffs transpire have something to look forward to. It is always exciting to see different teams who have been down on their luck attempt to uncover the next Russell Westbrook or Anthony Davis out of the young prospects entering the draft.

This year, many young players could be immediate impact guys for certain NBA teams. For whatever reason, the 2015 Draft is very center/forward heavy. Karl-Anthony Towns, Jahlil Okafor, D’Angelo Russell, Willie Cauley-Stein, and Frank Kaminsky are just a few of the many who will probably be taken in the first round this year. The argument of who will go no. 1 overall is probably between Towns and Okafor, whose sheer potential alone make them the most attractive candidates to be taken first.

Not to be overlooked are some of the foreign players who could turn out to be the next best thing in the NBA. Emmanuel Mundiay, Mario Hezonja, and Kristaps Prozingis are a few names that have been popping up on the international basketball circuit. For whatever reason, foreign players tend to be a bit more risky, just because no one knows what they can actually do against NBA level competition. But it’s a risk some teams may be willing to make in the early part of the draft this year.

All in all, no one will actually know who is going where until the NBA Draft actually takes place. But for now, we can speculate all we want. So here is the 2015 NBA Mock Draft.

Note: Draft order was decided by an NBA Draft Simulator for the lottery picks (1-14). The NBA Draft Lottery will take place after the NBA playoffs have concluded. The rest of the order is in reverse of the NBA regular season standings.

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