NBA Draft 2016: Latest Mock Draft and Teams with Most to Lose on June 23

The NBA and the teams fortunate enough to clutch first-round picks—sorry, New York Knicks—put everything on the line at the podium soon.

While the wait will seem more excruciating the shorter it gets (that only makes sense when professional sports leagues approach draft time, folks), the saving grace is the official order is now out in the wild and digestible.

Other than former Philadelphia 76ers general manager Sam Hinkie giving one giant fist pump over the proceedings, things went about as expected. As a result, projections don’t undergo massive changes, and those teams with the most at risk don’t get anything in the form of relief.

Let’s examine those teams with the most to lose after a look at an updated mock draft.

2016 NBA Mock Draft

Teams with Most to Lose Boston Celtics 

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Good luck figuring out what the Boston Celtics will do after falling to the undesirable No. 3 slot. 

Landing at the third pick means Ben Simmons and Brandon Ingram aren’t coming to town. It means settling for a player who might not necessarily be worth the third pick and hoping he pans out while meshing with a young core that already made the playoffs.

General manager Danny Ainge isn’t one to get shoddy value out of a pick. It’s why he’s already talked about perhaps moving the selection.

“Trading the No. 3 pick will be difficult, sure, because there’s some good players at No. 3,” Ainge said, according to Steve Bulpett of the Boston Herald. “But there are some players that it wouldn’t be difficult for. And we’ll be listening, and we’ll have a lot of communication internally and try to figure that out.”

In the above mock draft, Ainge and Co. keep the pick and grab Dragan Bender of Croatia, an athletic big man who can space the floor with his shooting. It’s the biggest roster need and …

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