Writers Picks: Consensus Top Draft Prospects
Projecting NBA careers is no science. We asked eight CHN writers to submit their top 15 2008 NBA Draft prospects, and no surprise, everyone had a different list. The numbers were then compiled, giving 15 points for a 1st place vote on down to 1 point for a 15th place vote. Below is the consensus ranking, followed by our individual selections.
For whatever reason, it appears that a clear top 13 players has formed, but after that its somewhat of a mess. Rose was the big winner, leading 5 lists to just 3 for Beasley. Only 8 guys appeared on everyone's lists: the top 6 prospects and Joe Alexander, who only managed to come in 11th.
| Player | JBor | JBru | RCar | JFox | RJoh | SSieg | JTei | JTom | Total | |
| 1 | Derrick Rose | 15 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 15 | 13 | 15 | 14 | 119 |
| 2 | Michael Beasley | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 15 | 115 |
| 3 | OJ Mayo | 13 | 13 | 11 | 13 | 12 | 14 | 13 | 13 | 102 |
| 4 | Jerryd Bayless | 12 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 9 | 86 |
| 5 | Eric Gordon | 8 | 11 | 8 | 11 | 11 | 12 | 10 | 6 | 77 |
| 6 | Brook Lopez | 11 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 9 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 73 |
| 7 | Kevin Love | 10 | 10 | 10 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 11 | 68 | |
| 8 | Russell Westbrook | 6 | 8 | 13 | 10 | 7 | 2 | 12 | 58 | |
| 9 | Anthony Randolph | 7 | 9 | 3 | 5 | 13 | 10 | 1 | 4 | 52 |
| 10 | Danilo Gallinari | 5 | 6 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 9 | 7 | 47 | |
| 11 | Joe Alexander | 9 | 3 | 1 | 7 | 6 | 6 | 8 | 3 | 43 |
| 12 | Darrell Arthur | 3 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 7 | 8 | 37 | |
| 13 | DJ Augustin | 4 | 4 | 7 | 1 | 5 | 3 | 6 | 30 | |
| 14 | Chris D-R | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | ||||
| 15t | Nicolas Batum | 2 | 3 | 4 | 9 | |||||
| 15t | Kosta Koufous | 2 | 2 | 5 | 9 | |||||
| 17t | Marreese Speights | 1 | 5 | 6 | ||||||
| 17t | Robin Lopez | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||||||
| 18 | Brandon Rush | 1 | 4 | 5 | ||||||
| 19 | Donte Greene | 5 | 5 | |||||||
| 20 | DeAndre Jordan | 3 | 1 | 4 | ||||||
| 21 | Roy Hibbert | 2 | 2 | |||||||
| 22 | Serge Ibaka | 1 | 1 |
*ties in points are broken by amount of ballots a player appears on
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