In Front of NBA Combine, Evans Projected by Many as 1st Round Pick

The NBA Draft Combine begins Tuesday, and Jawun Evans will be there in Chicago. The former Oklahoma State PG will go through agility drills as well as play five on five games against 66 other players who hope to hear their name called in July.

Evans has been docile since news broke that he wasn’t going to come back for his junior season at Oklahoma State. Since then also, a lot of people have tried to imagine him in an NBA uniform. The question is, which one?

According to Bleacher Report’s mock draft released Sunday, Evans is going with the final pick in the first round to the Utah Jazz on a pick acquired from the Golden State Warriors.

Utah has been called a place that can “lull you to sleep” during the Jazz and Warriors’ Western Conference Semifinal series, but the fact that the Jazz not only made the playoffs, but also won its first series shows the team is becoming legitimate.

However, Utah ranked last in the regular season in pace of play. The Jazz picked guard Dante Exum with the fifth pick of the 2014 draft, but he hasn’t added any kind of explosive burst. That’s what Evans masters in.

The mock draft states Evans is, “One of two players in the country to average at least 19 points and six assists.” And that he will, “will look to carve out a role as a pick-and-roll specialist and bench spark.”

NBADraft.net has Evans going in the second round to the Celtics (Stillwater East?) and Draft Express has him going in the first round to the Lakers. Chad Ford of ESPN has Evans going No. 25 overall to the Orlando Magic.