2017 NBA Mock Draft: The best choice each team can make

The Chicago Bulls have a decent offseason coming up with much riding on Dwyane Wade’s player option decision and team decision on Rajon Rondo. There is also the looming question of how the front office views the franchise’s future with regards to Jimmy Butler. Given all of those questions and the relative lack of a stable core outside of Butler, the ideal option for the Bulls is to take the best player available and that would be Oklahoma State’s Jawun Evans.

Why is Evans higher on our board than he is elsewhere? A lot of it has to do with his production as a sophomore. Evans averaged 26.2 points and 8.7 assists per 40 minutes this season while leading the nation’s number one offense on a team where the second best player was Jeffrey Carroll, a prospect that few NBA fans have ever heard of. The sophomore point guard is a maestro running pick-and-roll and excels at getting into the teeth of a defense as much as any other point guard in this draft class. Evans has a starting point guard ceiling even if the probability that he’ll reach it is lower than the five point guards likely to go before him.

The thing that limits Evans is his size. At just 6-foot tall, he struggles to finish around the rim and he’s not going to be a very switchable defender on the other end. Evans, though, can still be a productive defender as evidenced by his high steal rate during his sophomore season.

Learn more about Jawun Evans at The Step Back.