The NBA Draft was last night, so today the natural reaction is to rush to snap judgements. Although not nearly as many people dish out grades for the NBA Draft as they do for the NFL Draft, there are still a fair amount of evaluations out there. Rather than making you scour the internet and look through all the varying opinions we've taken a good chunk of them and put them together into our NBA Draft report card.

Scores are tabulated like a regular GPA. An 'A' is a 4.0, an 'A-' is a 3.7, 'B+' a 3.3, 'B' a 3 and so on. (no extra points were given for an A+ as not all graders used the A+ option.


The Wizards were widely regarded as the winners of the draft, receiving two A+ and no grade lower than a B. The Jazz were right behind them getting nothing lower than a B+. At the other end of the draft were the Hornets, who didn't actually come away from the draft with any extra players. Most gave the Hornets an incomplete, and rightfully so, but all three who did grade them decided that nothing was worth a C-. Not doing much better were the Blazers, who gave up Andre Miller and Rudy Fernandez to get Raymond Felton, and then reached for Nolan Smith with the 21st pick.

As you might expect, for some teams the grades were wildly divergent. This is what happens when you evaluate how good talent is before it gets a chance to perform. The biggest difference of the bunch came with the Kings and Timberwolves. As for the Kings, Chad Ford of ESPN thought they nailed their draft, giving them an A; meanwhile the folks at CBS and SB Nation both gave the Kings a D, their draft day trade shook up everyone's opinions of their overall take. Ford also gave the T-wolves an A, and Tom Ziller at SB Nation gave them a D. In this case SB Nation was on their own, every other grader gave Minnesota at least a B. Again part of this comes from Ziller looking at their trades involving current players as well as their draftees.