2016 NBA Draft: Best sleepers

The top of the NBA Draft is stacked with immense talents and no-brainers. Who are the sleepers, the players floating below the radar but ready to make a huge impact?

We are on the precipice of one of the more exciting events of the NBA offseason — the draft. For decades people have constructed careers off evaluating prospects in preparation for the NBA draft, every team has a scouting department and bloggers salivate over the chance to be right about who will go where. Yet, without fail, there will be a handful of players who slip through the cracks and make teams regret passing them over in late June.

In the last two drafts players like Rodney Hood, Nikola Jokic, Norman Powell and Josh Richardson are some of those guys who were ultimately a bargain for the team who selected them. In hindsight it’s easy to criticize and ridicule NBA general managers for overlooking certain guys, but again — it happens every single year.

Sleepers don’t necessarily have to be second round picks or even late picks. Justification for a sleeper pick would be a guy who is selected much lower than he should have been. Sometimes that’s due to age, specific skill set, off court issues, unwarranted perceptions of said player and many other varying factors.

With that in mind, here is a preemptive look at five guys who could feasibly end up as sleepers when all the dust clears on the 2016 NBA Draft.

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