{"id":39918,"date":"2022-06-07T03:55:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-07T03:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/draft-rumors-magic-smith-pacers-sharpe-jovic-more\/"},"modified":"2022-06-07T03:55:00","modified_gmt":"2022-06-07T03:55:00","slug":"draft-rumors-magic-smith-pacers-sharpe-jovic-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/draft-rumors-magic-smith-pacers-sharpe-jovic-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Rumors: Magic, Smith, Pacers, Sharpe, Jovic, More"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-304918\">\n<div class=\"post-hd\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<span>June 6th 2022 at 1:17 pm CST<\/span> by Luke Adams \t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"post-bd\">\n<div class=\"userContent\">\n<p>Echoing what ESPN&#8217;s Jonathan Givony reported last month, Jeremy Woo of SI.com says the &#8220;general expectation&#8221; around the league is that <strong>Jabari Smith<\/strong> is the favorite to be picked first overall by the <strong>Magic<\/strong> in the 2022 NBA draft.  Woo notes that Orlando is doing its due diligence on several prospects at the top of this year&#8217;s draft class, but his \u201cgut feeling\u201d di lui is that the team will ultimately land on Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Woo&#8217;s latest mock draft for SI.com includes several other interesting tidbits.  Here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Keegan Murray<\/strong> and <strong>Jaden Ivey<\/strong> are the two prospects most frequently linked to the <strong>Pacers<\/strong> by rival teams, though it&#8217;s unclear if either of them will still be available when Indiana picks at No. 6, Woo writes, adding that No. 6 appears to be Murray&#8217;s floor.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Shaedon Sharpe<\/strong> earned some buzz at last month&#8217;s draft combine, but \u201csome of that excitement has turned to trepidation\u201d since teams left Chicago, according to Woo who suggests that Sharpe&#8217;s individual workouts will go a long way toward determining how he&#8217;s regarded by lottery teams.<\/li>\n<li>Woo has heard that Serbian wing <strong>Nikola Jovic<\/strong> would like to come to the NBA right away, so he won&#8217;t necessarily be a draft-and-stash pick.<\/li>\n<li>Some people around the NBA believe the <strong>Thunder<\/strong> may look to package their No. 12 pick and a future pick or two to acquire a second top-10 selection, says Woo.  Oklahoma City also controls the second overall pick.<\/li>\n<li>Rival teams believe the <strong>Knicks<\/strong> will likely target a point guard or a big man at No. 11, per Woo, who believes it&#8217;s possible both <strong>Mark Williams<\/strong> and <strong>Jalen Duren<\/strong> will be available at that spot. <strong>TyTy Washington<\/strong>&#8216;s name has also come up in Woo&#8217;s conversations as a player to watch at No. 11. Washington worked out on Monday for the Knicks and told reporters, including Ian Begley of SNY.tv (<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IanBegley\/status\/1533865821675606020\" data-wpel-link=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter link<\/a>) that he also workouts on tap with the <strong>Pelicans<\/strong> (No. 8), <strong>Spurs<\/strong> (No. 9), <strong>Wizards<\/strong> (No. 10), and <strong>Cavaliers<\/strong> (No. 14).<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 6th 2022 at 1:17 pm CST by Luke Adams Echoing what ESPN&#8217;s Jonathan Givony reported last month, Jeremy Woo of SI.com says the &#8220;general expectation&#8221; around the league is that Jabari Smith is the favorite to be picked first overall by the Magic in the 2022 NBA draft. Woo notes that Orlando is doing &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/draft-rumors-magic-smith-pacers-sharpe-jovic-more\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Draft Rumors: Magic, Smith, Pacers, Sharpe, Jovic, More<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.hoopsrumors.com\/files\/2022\/05\/Jabari-Smith-900x600.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}