Current Players only NBA Draft

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After the huge success that was the first Redcafe NBA draft ;) we bring to you on the eve of the start of the new season, the current players only NBA draft! Only players that are eligible for this draft are the ones that are entering the new season tonight (shoutout to our retired legends Kobe, Duncan and Garnett)!

Timeline: Players entering the 2016-17 NBA season, judged on current ability which includes and their performances in the last two seasons.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_current_NBA_team_rosters

No. of picks: 10. Pick your starting five and a bench. You will need at least two players to cover each of the following positions: PG, SG, SF, PF, C.

No. of managers: 8.

If you are interested, please post in this thread.
Managers so far:

1. Aldo
2. Kasper
3. NM
4. JaffyJoe
5. Sarni
6. DesiBD
7. syrian_scholes
8.

For those who don't know how drafts work on here:
General Rules:
1. Snake Draft Format i.e. picks start with Manager 1, then 1-8, 8-1, 1-8 and so on. (Random Order, initialised by a neutral.)
2. All managers have 8 hours to decide their pick, if not they can pick whenever they are ready while the draft continues. Three missed picks in a row results in loss of the eight hour window.
3. When you make a pick, please post the player name and/or a picture, update the ongoing draft list and tag the next manager.
4. Once a pick is posted in the thread, either by a manager or his assistant, it CANNOT be changed. This rule is final, no exceptions (posted by mistake, etc). Be careful before posting a pick.
5. There will be 10 rounds of drafting.
6. Once the teams are done, we can have a small KO tournament.
 
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In. I'm new to this draft thing so forgive me for some mistakes in advance.:)
 

NM

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I'll play. Losing interest in the NBA with a my favorite players retiring so maybe this will start it up
 

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I want to get into basketball this season, and I feel like this draft will be perfect for that. I'll be an avid spectator here and see how this goes. :)
 

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I'll join but I can start only in one week if it's relevant. How will the KO tournament look like? I'm not too much of a basketball specialist to really speak tactics and shit like that, just enjoy NBA.
 

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I'll join but I can start only in one week if it's relevant. How will the KO tournament look like? I'm not too much of a basketball specialist to really speak tactics and shit like that, just enjoy NBA.
This would possibly start much sooner as there was just one spot left, could even start today itself. Probably the best if you team up with someone in that case.

You can check out the tournament of the last NBA draft, I think the discussions mainly revolved around how good/bad the said players were and their quality and not that much in terms of tactics.

Yeah it's supposed to be a fun draft and not as serious as the football ones.
 

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This would possibly start much sooner as there was just one spot left, could even start today itself. Probably the best if you team up with someone in that case.

You can check out the tournament of the last NBA draft, I think the discussions mainly revolved around how good/bad the said players were and their quality and not that much in terms of tactics.

Yeah it's supposed to be a fun draft and not as serious as the football ones.
Cool.
I'm on vacation so if someone wants the spot let him have it, no point of AMs for this I reckon as it's probably more light and easygoing. I'll follow it from the side and if someone drops out/slot won't get filled at the coming days I'll take it.
 

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Lets do two players per team mandatory so we can reduce the wait time from 8 hours to like 5.
 

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Lets do two players per team mandatory so we can reduce the wait time from 8 hours to like 5.
Depends man, a lot of times the co-managers would slow things up waiting for their buddy to show up if their target got picked and they need to discuss again etc. 8 hours is a fair limit honestly considering time zones and your turn can fall overnight as well. Just 8 teams so won't take that long.

Well, we have our 8 managers then, we need a neutral to randomise the order and we can begin.

1. Aldo
2. Kasper
3. NM
4. JaffyJoe
5. Sarni
6. DesiBD
7. syrian_scholes
8. RDCR07

Can someone please volunteer and chuck that into random.org and give us the results?
 

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Here is your sequence:

3
8
6
2
1
5
4
7

Timestamp: 2016-10-25 14:07:08 UTC
 

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I pick LeBron. I hate his guts, but he's the best there is.

NM: 1. LeBron
RDCR07: 1.
DesiBD: 1.
Kasper: 1.
Aldo: 1.
Sarni: 1.
JaffyJoe: 1.
syrian_scholes: 1.

@RDCR07
 

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NM: 1. LeBron
RDCR07: 1. Curry
DesiBD: 1.
Kasper: 1.
Aldo: 1.
Sarni: 1.
JaffyJoe: 1.
syrian_scholes: 1.
 

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Leonard.

NM: 1. LeBron
RDCR07: 1. Curry
DesiBD: 1. Durant
Kasper: 1. Leonard
Aldo: 1.
Sarni: 1.
JaffyJoe: 1.
syrian_scholes: 1.

@Aldo