I hope everyones had a bit of a chance to work out a strategy for the draft or scout some players etc. At the time of writing this we only have 3days, 7hours and 30minutes until Danny10 is on the clock to select the #1 pick!

An important thing to note at this stage is that trades take 2 days to finalise after they are accepted, and all trades need to be finalised at least an hour before our draft begins. So anyone still bargaining or planning to trade any draft picks need to propose and have the trade accepted sometime in the next 30 hours or so - cutoff for the trade to be accepted is Tuesday at 9pm AEST.

Trading can be very worthwile - There have been 3 completed trades involving my team, and im rapt with the outcome - 6 picks within the top 88 and another at 102 should help me set up a good core group of keepers for the season. I dont have great knowledge of the NBA players these days, so it was important to me to try and get extra picks inside the top100 as i wont have much of a clue from there on in the draft, outside of a few players that I suspect most other GMs will be looking at as well.

So get trading, its fun and its your last chance before the draft!

Now, I would highly recommend  that you all do a mock draft.  Hugely important IMO as it will give us a chance to get a handle on the format of the draft and how the application works etc.

Im not sure if anyone has found a mock draft with 20 teams in it - please let us all know in the comments if you have - as on the ESPN site they only have 10 teamers available, which is still good to get accustomed to it all, which IMO is the most important aspect to doing a mock draft. Here is a link to where you can access a mock draft: <a rel="nofollow" href="http://games.espn.go.com/fba/mockdraftlobby"> http://games.espn.go.com/fba/mockdraftlobby[/url], choose the ’snake’ version.

Now thats about it for this week. I cant wait for the draft! Is everyone expecting to be there?

One last thing is Im going to attempt a top10 prediction...  have a look over the break:::::<!--more-->

I may be wrong, but first 3 picks are easy IMO, after that it gets really tricky.

#1:   LeBron James, Miami, SF

#2:   Chris Paul, New Orleans, PG

#3:   Kevin Durant, Oklahoma City, SF

#4:   Pau Gasol, LA Lakers, PF/C

#5:   Kobe Bryant, LA Lakers, SG

#6:   Steve Nash, Phoenix, PG

#7:   Rajon Rondo, Boston, PG

#8:   Dwayne Wade, Miami, SG

#9:   Dirk Nowitzki, Dallas, PF

#10:   Deron Williams, Utah, PG

* Picks 4-10 could all just as easily be picked in any other position and they could even miss the top10 as there are heaps of others that i have not included. C.Anthony &amp; D.Howard especially unlucky to miss out.

I know that there are a heap of you that know more about the NBA than me, so please give your predictions in the comments down below. And please feel free to rip through my predictions!!

And lastly, does anyone have any questions about the draft?