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          Ford-Pelton: Lottery team draft fixes: Nuggets, Heat, Pacers, Jazz

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          • Chad Ford
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            Chad Ford
            ESPN Senior Writer
            • Senior NBA Writer for ESPN.com
            • ESPN Insider NBA Draft Analyst since 2002
            • Writes ESPN's NBA Draft Top 100 and Lottery Mock Draft
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          • Kevin Pelton
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            Kevin Pelton
            ESPN Senior Writer
            • Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series
            • Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers
            • Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system
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          May 7, 2015, 02:00 PM

          ESPN Insider's Chad Ford and Kevin Pelton return to provide the kind of discussions that are happening in front offices around the NBA -- where scouts and statistics experts are breaking down NBA draft prospects using their "eyes, ears and numbers."

          Kevin Pelton: Over the next few weeks, we'll take a look at the biggest need I identified for each team in my my Roster Reload series and how they might be able to fill it in the draft. Having already covered the bottom four teams and teams Nos. 5 to 8, today we take a look at the teams entering the later part of the lottery: the Nuggets, Heat, Pacers and Jazz.

          Chad Ford: And as an added bonus, I'll bait you with my picks from Wednesday's "Grade: A" mock draft where I played GM for all 30 teams. I think you are going to disagree on a few in particular.