Reid Forgrave (CBS Sports) has Celtics taking Jayson Tatum #1

[KG Living Legend]

 This is how stupid this guy is. One gm compared Tatum to Artest. What? That's the worst comparison I've ever heard.

 One NBA general manager compared Tatum to Ron Artest (when Artest was good), and to me, that's the type of piece that could immediately vault Boston into a championship contender. Though it wouldn't surprise me if the Celtics swing some sort of trade with this pick to pick up an established NBA star (Jimmy Butler

[Tr1boy]

 This is how stupid this guy is. One gm compared Tatum to Artest. What? That's the worst comparison I've ever heard.

 One NBA general manager compared Tatum to Ron Artest (when Artest was good), and to me, that's the type of piece that could immediately vault Boston into a championship contender. Though it wouldn't surprise me if the Celtics swing some sort of trade with this pick to pick up an established NBA star (Jimmy Butler

Yeah pretty bad comparison

Tatum best comparison I have seen is Danny Granger. 

[CelticsElite]

Young Granger would be great to Add to this team

[Celts Fan 508]

I would love this, Tatum is my guy, I've seen him play 20+ times and am so impressed with his scoring versatility.  Tatum is going to be a stud, I can pretty much guarantee it.

However, I have not watched Fultz that much so I can't say for certain that Tatum is better than Fultz.  I did watch Ball 12+ times and I would take Tatum over him every day and twice on Sunday.  If Fultz is really that much better than Tatum then he must be phenomenal.

[Kadin]

You don't take Tatum or anyone else at #1. If you don't want Fultz, then you trade back to #3 or something and get your guy as well as some additional assets. You don't waste the #1 pick like that.

[CelticsElite]

This isn't nfl draft. We can't trade down if no one else wants to do a deal to trade up

Although I would hope to get more assets or future pics to be able to pick up Tatum

[Somebody]

I would love this, Tatum is my guy, I've seen him play 20+ times and am so impressed with his scoring versatility.  Tatum is going to be a stud, I can pretty much guarantee it.

However, I have not watched Fultz that much so I can't say for certain that Tatum is better than Fultz.  I did watch Ball 12+ times and I would take Tatum over him every day and twice on Sunday.  If Fultz is really that much better than Tatum then he must be phenomenal.

Fultz is that good. I admit that I don't watch Tatum much but he looks like a Danny Granger type to me, who's good but not as good as arguably the best pg prospect in the 21st century in Fultz (only 17 drafts so it's a rather small sample size lol and emphasis on arguably)

[Boris Badenov]

Hate to derail the thread, but he's updated the mock...

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/mock-draft

[CelticsElite]

Hate to derail the thread, but he's updated the mock...

http://www.cbssports.com/nba/draft/mock-draft

I like forgraves mock

[JOMVP]

He also has us trading a player we dont have the rights to (Amir Johnson) in a trade for Paul George.

[gouki88]

He also has us trading a player we dont have the rights to (Amir Johnson) in a trade for Paul George.

LOL  a real expert.

[Celtics4ever]

If Ainge is talking Tatum that might be smokescreen for Jackson or Fox.

[BlackCeltic]

Jaylen 2016, Tatum 2017, Michael Porter Jr. 2018? Imagine drafting 3 Small forwards in top 3 for 3 straight years. I couldn't see Ainge drafting this way if he holds onto the picks. If he is drafting for the future then the following is ideal:

Jaylen SF/SG

Fultz  SG/PG

Bamba C/PF or Porter Jr. SF/PF

[obnoxiousmime]

This would be a mistake not easily forgraven.

[Celtics4ever]

Ainge never shows his hand.   It could be other teams trying to drive down the price of Fultz.