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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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ESPN Senior Writer- Co-author, Pro Basketball Prospectus series
- Formerly a consultant with the Indiana Pacers
- Developed WARP rating and SCHOENE system
For the past several years, ESPN Insider's Chad Ford and Kevin Pelton have provided the kind of discussions that are happening in front offices around the NBA -- where scouts and statistical experts are breaking down NBA prospects using their "eyes, ears and numbers." This year those conversations are extending beyond the NBA draft to include prospects in their rookie or sophomore seasons.
Chad and Kevin both had Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns No. 1 on their respective big boards at the end of the draft (see Pelton's Statistical Big Board and Ford's final Big Board 12.0).
Rating Towns No. 1
Pelton: It's early, crazy early, but given what you've seen from Towns in the preseason and in his first two NBA games, how do you feel about projecting him No. 1 in the draft last season?