How the Boston Celtics fared in NBA Wire’s roundtable draft

The editors of the nine NBA Wire sites put their heads together to simulate the draft; this is what the Boston Celtics ended up nabbing.

The Boston Celtics took a slightly different route than we expected in our NBA Wire-wide roundtable mock draft that pitted all our editors against each other in the annual free-for-all we call the NBA draft.

Firstly, though we doggedly tried to trade up with all our picks and even several of our less expensive players, we were simply unable to do so.

We also had trouble using a late first to move big men Enes Kanter and/or Vincent Poirier, which was evidently unappealing to our other NBA Wire editors.

While we have no way of knowing whether or not that is how things will play out on draft night, we learned making a draft-night trade takes a lot more work than we anticipated; we may want to temper our expectations as a result.

We did draft four prospects under the assumption we’d find a way to make space later — though our approach was at least a little different than many of the consensus moves later in the draft.

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