The TrueHoop three-man draft

Let’s have a little fun with this

BY HENRY ABBOTT, JAROD HECTOR, and TRAVIS MORAN

With his legal troubles in the rearview, Illinois guard Terrence Shannon Jr. has leapt back into many draft debates. RICH SCHULTZ/GETTY IMAGES

This week, while waiting for resident expert David Thorpe to return from the Great White North (Toronto), we cooked up a fun idea. 

Unlike David, the three of us are much closer to the engaged NBA fan—meaning, there’s only so much depth we can add to a draft analysis. But what about looking even further down the road, into a future no one knows? That’s where broken clocks can rule the day.

So, we did a little in-house snake draft and each picked a few players we thought might have the best Estimated Plus-Minus (EPM) after three full seasons. Shirking even 90 seconds of homework, we dove right in, making Henry choose first since it was his idea.