Welcome to Lockdown Warriors, your daily podcast on All Things Warriors, part of the

Lockdown podcast network. I'm West Goldberg Warriors Beat Reporter for the Mercury News. This is part

one of my two-part podcast with Jonathan Charks from the Ringer, who among being one of the best

people on the NBA really knows this stuff when it comes to the draft. I always appreciate the way

that he thinks about basketball appreciate the way that he

thinks about basketball and the reporting that he does. He's one of the best when it comes to

really understanding what's happening on the court and explaining it in a way that's easy to

understand. So I'm really happy he agreed to come on the show because the draft was originally

supposed to be last week, but because of the pandemic, it's now scheduled for November 18th.

So instead of the original draft, we are doing our own mock draft.

Charks and I will each take control of seven of the 14 lottery teams and do a mock draft night,

complete with trades and analysis.

You're going to want to stick around for both parts, but here's part one.

Enjoy.

You are Locked-on Warriors, your daily Golden State Warriors podcast, part of the

Locked-on Podcast Network, your team every day.

I'm here with Jonathan Charks from the Ringer, who is joining me for every day. I'm here with Jonathan Charks from the Ringer, who is joining me for our team-controlled

mock draft.

We'll each run seven of the 14-line-way teams rotating picks for a moth draft night.

The rules are basically each pick will be open for a trade, then the pick will be made with an explanation, and then that will be followed by a quick reaction from both of us.

And then the next GM will just make his pick. So we're just going to do one through 14. Let's get started, Charks. You're running the Timberwolves, and you're on the clock with the number one pick.

See, I think one reason to be on this pod, because I feel like you're the NBA's leading DeAngelo Russell expert.

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