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

The NBA offseason was littered with personnel shake-ups, which means fantasy basketball owners have a whole new set of questions to consider when it comes to first-round draft picks. 

While Golden State Warriors superstar Stephen Curry was previously tabbed as a potential No. 1 fantasy selection, Kevin Durant’s arrival in the Bay Area has dinged both players’ stocks and elevated Oklahoma City Thunder point guard Russell Westbrook into the top spot in that conversation.

Factor in Houston Rockets star James Harden’s position change to point guard under run-and-gun guru Mike D’Antoni, and there’s plenty of justification behind picking the bearded wonder with this year’s top pick.

With the regular season around the corner, here’s an overview of a first-round mock draft for a standard 10-team head-to-head league:

Top Picks to Target

There’s no right or wrong answer in the Westbrook-Harden debate, so it comes down to a matter of preference.

With Westbrook, we know volume will be out of control, and NumberFire’s Brad Leibfried pointed out a significant sample size to make that case in July:

Even with Durant on his team, Westbrook already boasted one of the highest usage rates in the league at 33.1 percent last season. For the season, that number jumped to an insane 39.0 with Durant off of the floor last year. If he were to maintain that for an entire season, that would give Westbrook the highest usage rate of all-time, surpassing the 38.7 percent usage rate Kobe Bryant put up …

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