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Posted by catmandoo (Member # 1284) on 06-22-2015, 07:03 PM:

It might seem temporarily forgotten at the start of the NBA draft.

The first three players taken Thursday could easily be a trio of big guys. Karl-Anthony Towns seems the likely pick by Minnesota at No. 1, the Los Angeles Lakers would next figure to snare Jahlil Okafor at No. 2 and it wouldn't surprise many onlookers if Philadelphia then took Latvian prospect Kristaps Porzingis with the third pick.

Give or take an inch, they're all 7-footers.

So after a title series where Cleveland's LeBron James and Golden State's Draymond Green — both about 6-foot-8 — spent time at center and where the Warriors swung the series their way by going to a small lineup and forcing the Cavaliers away from what was working, all eyes when the draft starts will be on bigs once again.

"I think big men still run the game," Okafor said after a workout with the Lakers earlier this month. "When you have a dominant big man, that changes the aspects of the game. You can see that now, you can see the Golden State big men and the Cleveland big men doing big things for their teams. So we believe the big men still run it."

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