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Aaaah, NBA Christmas.
NBA Draft Day was traditionally my favourite day of the year (followed closely by the first day of March Madness), and this year's draft could be one of the best Christmases yet.
There's really no certainty regarding the top picks in the draft for the first time in years, and a fairly even distribution of talent from about pick five on down to pick 35. Players like Victor Oladipo, Nerlens Noel, Otto Porter, Kentavious Caldwell-Pope and Jamaal Franklin appear to be solid future NBA players if not stars, but other than that? Even top options like Ben McLemore and Trey Burke scare me.
As a result, anything could happen tonight and it'll be interesting to see how things unfold.
Well, maybe not so much as a Raptors' fan.
The team of course at present has no picks in the draft, thanks to various trades, and it's uncertain if they'll even want to get in on tonight's action considering the typical price tag attached to draft picks.
But as we pointed out yesterday, it does make sense on various levels to try and nab a pick, so our poll question today revolves around this item...