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Hey, welcome into All Ball.

I'm Doug Gottlieb.

Thanks so much for making this a part of your podcast listening day, your podcast listening week.

We're going to get you ready for the NBA draft, which of course

is this Thursday night. And you can follow me on Twitter as well as I'll be posting some things

on Instagram and on Facebook. I've gotten a chance to talk to a bunch of NBA people and talk to

some agents as well, some coaches, some front office people, all of whom

have given me a variety of perspectives on what we can expect to see this Thursday.

You know, it's interesting because there are some people that believe this is just going to be

an okay draft.

If you look back at last year, I'm not sure there was a ton of hype at the top of the draft

that matched the hype at the top of this year's draft.

I actually think this is a pretty darn good draft.

We should have a bevy of starters, a bevy of rotation players, and then some intriguing

prospects that could be very much hit or very

much miss and look i i think there's a lot of different topic talking topics but here to me are

the three most interesting one is do you pass on dionre aiton at number one or even in the top two or three,

not because you don't have him as that highly rated a prospect,

but because he plays a position to which is kind of being eliminated.

It's not that the center position is being eliminated,

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