2016 NBA Mock Draft: 1st-Round Predictions for Most Intriguing Prospects

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Now that the order of the top 14 selections has been established with the 2016 NBA draft lottery on Tuesday, organizations can begin planning for who they will take on June 23 in Brooklyn, New York. 

This might not be the deepest draft the league has seen, but a pair of can’t-miss prospects in LSU’s Ben Simmons and Duke’s Brandon Ingram are projected to go off the board first and second. But the order in which those two players are chosen remains unknown. 

My latest first-round mock draft will try to shed some insight into what the Philadelphia 76ers and Los Angeles Lakers could be thinking at the top of the board:

The Lakers might find it more beneficial to draft Ingram instead of Simmons because they have their point guard of the future with D’Angelo Russell. 

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