NBA Draft Order 2015: Entire List of Selections for This Year's Draft

The wait is over, as it's finally time for the 2015 NBA draft. Thursday will see 30 NBA teams select from a teeming pool of talent featuring the best soon-to-be-former collegiate players in the United States and top stars from across the globe.

The Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York, is this year's site for the draft, which begins at 7 p.m. ET and will be televised live on ESPN (live streaming on WatchESPN).

The talk of the town is Kentucky's Karl-Anthony Towns, a good bet to become the No. 1 overall pick in the draft by the Minnesota Timberwolves. The 19-year-old big man insists he doesn't know anything yet about his future, however.

"I have no promises yet. I just don't have anything. Wish I did," Towns said Wednesday, via Yahoo Sports' Marc J. Spears. "I would have a lot of stress taken off my back. The biggest stress is this is the draft. This isn't college no more. You can't get traded in college."

There's much more to this draft, of course, than who might go No. 1 overall. For those looking to keep track of everything at home, here's a complete list of selections for this year's draft.

 
Turmoil at the Top

The Los Angeles Lakers have been involved in more than their fair share of rumors leading up to the NBA draft. While Minnesota seems all but destined to pick Towns at No. 1, the Lakers could go in a number of directions with the No. 2 pick, including dealing it for a league superstar.

Yahoo Sports' Adrian Wojnarowski reports the Lakers and Sacramento Kings have discussed a deal that might send DeMarcus Cousins to Los Angeles, one that would take several L.A. assets to pull off:

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Kings vice president of basketball operations Vlade Divac has pursued a possible deal that would include a bevy of assets, including the Lakers' No. 2 pick in Thursday's NBA draft, rookies Julius Randle and Jordan Clarkson and other draft assets, league sources told Yahoo Sports. Sacramento also would want to unload the remainder of forward Carl Landry's two years, $13.5 million contract, league sources said.

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While some Lakers fans might balk at such a steep asking price, Cousins really might be worth selling the farm for. Randle is an unknown commodity after missing nearly his entire rookie season with a leg injury. Clarkson is promising, averaging 11.9 points and 3.5 assists his rookie year, and trading a No. 2 pick is never fun. Of course, grabbing one of the league's best players might be worth the loss of such a prized asset. 

Cousins is only 24 years old and averaged 24.1 points, 12.7 rebounds and 1.7 blocks per game last year. He ranked ninth in the league in player efficiency rating at 25.29, per ESPN.com. CBS Sports' Sam Vecenie believes Cousins is a no-brainer acquisition if it's true that he's available:

Should the Lakers hold on to their No. 2 pick, it seems the choice is coming down to Ohio State's D'Angelo Russell or Duke's Jahlil Okafor. Russell is a combo guard capable of playing the point or the 2. Okafor is a 7-footer with excellent footwork and a silky-smooth offensive game. Despite having Kobe Bryant for another year and Clarkson in the backcourt, Bleacher Report's Kevin Ding writes the Lakers could be leaning toward Russell:

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If the Los Angeles Lakers draft Ohio State guard D'Angelo Russell on Thursday night, as is the increasing likelihood, it will be for one simple reason.

They believe he is a star.

Although the Lakers respect Jahlil Okafor's size and skill (his defensive potential, not so much), momentum and consensus have been growing in the front office that Russell, not Okafor, is the special one.

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This would leave the Philadelphia 76ers in quite a predicament at No. 3. They already have Nerlens Noel and Joel Embiid on the roster. Even though the latter's injured foot puts his sophomore season (and long-term viability) into question, the Sixers would seem to have much greater needs in the backcourt and be disinclined to overload in the frontcourt.

If this scenario pans out and no trades come of it, the Sixers might pass on Okafor and then go for Emmanuel Mudiay, a 6'5" point guard who played in China last year instead of the NCAA.

It's difficult to discern what may come of this draft, and what happens at the top will certainly have ramifications felt much later into the lottery stage.