Hello, welcome to the Hook Collective Podcast. We talk about the NDA, which we are doing on Sunday evening.

Joining me is the man of the week.

We're so lucky he got a few minutes of his time

before it gets crazy.

Our draft analyst and founder of Draft Express,

which is still remains legendary in the NBA Jonathan Gavoni.

What's up Brian how are you? I'm probably a little bit more well rested than you.

Now I'm trying to cram I'm like an exam week trying to cram on all the draft stuff that you've been working on endlessly for 12 months.

So I'm going to yield to your expertise here, but so thank you for lending it.

So it's not every some years we have this question three days before the draft but we'd have it this year wasn't the case last year right out of the gate

We still don't know who the number one pick is going to be for the Atlanta Hawks and now there's a bunch of

different reasons for that the quality of the draft is a factor the nature of the Hawks

situation is a factor ranking the top prospects is a factor where are you at Jonathan and who would you take if you were the

Hawk? Well we've had Zachary Ariza Shay number one for pretty much the entire cycle and that's who most of the NBA expects to ultimately be picked

one either by Atlanta or if there's some kind of trade maybe with San Antonio you know which I'm not sure how likely that is, but if that did happen, I believe that Risa Shay would be the target.

Most of the NBA teams that I talk to have Risa Shea,

at number one on their board, but not all.

Some of them have Alexar there.

But I think Riza Shea is probably the guy

for either of those teams.

Riesa Shay is like a combo forward, a wing, a talented wing.

I've had him described to me as he's a safe pick at number one.

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