Fantasy Basketball 2016: 1st-Round NBA Mock Draft and Top Team Names

With the NBA preseason winding down, it’s time to start getting pumped for the regular season. If you’re a fantasy basketball player, you probably have a draft coming up or have recently picked your roster.

Whatever your situation is, it’s important to know which NBA players are true fantasy superstars and how they stack up against each other. So let’s go through a first-round mock draft for a 10-team, standard-scoring league.

After the mock and a few player breakdowns, we’ll offer a handful of team names that might get a chuckle or two out of the other owners in your league.

1st-Round Fantasy Basketball Mock Draft

No. 4: Kevin Durant, Golden State Warriors

Adjustment period? What adjustment period? Through five preseason games with the Warriors, Kevin Durant has been everything the team had hoped for and more.

Durant’s numbers per 36 minutes—28.4 points, 7.2 rebounds and 5.0 assists on a 75.4 true-shooting percentage, per RealGM—paint a rosy outlook for his fantasy owners in 2016-17. The 28-year-old forward has always been efficient, but things should get much easier for him this season playing alongside three All-Stars, including arguably the two best three-point shooters in NBA history.

Of course, said All-Stars are the exact reason Durant is down at No. 4 this season. The Warriors will have to keep Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green happy by involving each player in the offense, which means Durant will have games where he only takes around 10 shots. It’s extremely unlikely that he’ll have another 64-game streak of scoring at least 20 points like he did …

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