Drafting College Players in 2009

Win Score = PTS + REB + STL + ½*BLK + ½*AST – FGA – ½*FTA – TO – ½*PF

PAWS40 = Positions Adjusted Win Score per 40 minutes = Win Score per 40 minutes – Average Win Score per 40 minutes at position played

Average PAWS40 = 10.13

Win Score per 40 minutes taken from DraftExpress

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Draft	Team	Name	College	Position Played	Game	Minutes per Game	Win Score per 40 minutes	PAWS40	PAWS40 Rank	Draft Rank
1	LA Clippers	Blake Griffin	Oklahoma	PF	35	33.3	21.2	18.9	2	1
2	Memphis	Hasheem Thabeet	Connecticut	C	36	31.8	17.0	14.8	6	2
3	Oklahoma City	James Harden	Arizona State	SG	35	35.8	9.0	10.7	23	3
4	Sacramento	Tyreke Evans	Memphis	SG	37	29.0	8.0	9.7	32	4
6	Minnesota	Jonny Flynn	Syracuse	PG	38	37.3	5.8	8.6	38	5
7	Golden State	Stephen Curry	Davidson	PG	34	33.7	11.5	14.3	9	6
8	New York	Jordan Hill	Arizona	PF	34	35.7	12.3	10.0	28	7
9	Toronto	Demar DeRozan	USC	SG	35	33.4	6.8	8.5	39	8
11	New Jersey	Terrence Williams	Louisville	SG	37	34.2	12.8	14.5	8	9
12	Charlotte	Gerald Henderson	Duke	SG	37	29.7	8.0	9.7	33	10
13	Indiana	Tyler Hansbrough	North Carolina	PF	34	30.3	14.1	11.8	15	11
14	Phoenix	Earl Clark	Louisville	SF	37	34.3	9.6	9.8	29	12
15	Detroit	Austin Daye	Gonzaga	SF	34	26.3	10.3	10.5	26	13
16	Chicago	James Johnson	Wake Forest	PF	31	30.5	13.3	11.0	21	14
17	Philadelphia	Jrue Holiday	UCLA	PG	35	27.1	6.9	9.7	30	15
18	Denver	Ty Lawson	North Carolina	PG	35	29.9	12.8	15.6	3	16
19	Atlanta	Jeff Teague	Wake Forest	PG	31	32.0	7.7	10.5	25	17
20	Utah	Eric Maynor	Virginia Commonwealth	PG	34	35.5	8.2	11.0	20	18
21	New Orleans	Darren Collison	UCLA	PG	35	31.5	7.6	10.4	27	19
24	Oklahoma City	B.J. Mullens	Ohio State	C	33	20.3	9.9	7.7	43	20
26	Chicago	Taj Gibson	USC	PF	35	33.7	13.3	11.0	22	21
27	Memphis	DeMarre Carroll	Missouri	PF	38	28.0	14.3	12.0	12	22
28	Minnesota	Wayne Ellington	North Carolina	SG	38	30.4	9.9	11.6	17	23
29	New York	Toney Douglas	Florida State	SG	35	36.5	7.3	9.0	36	24
31	Portland	Jeff Pendergraph	Arizona State	PF	35	32.5	13.4	11.1	19	25
32	Houston	Jermaine Taylor	UCF	SG	31	31.9	10.0	11.7	16	26
33	Portland	Dante Cunningham	Villanova	PF	38	31.6	10.1	7.8	42	27
35	Detroit	DaJuan Summers	Georgetown	SF	31	29.4	6.0	6.2	47	28
36	Memphis	Sam Young	Pittsburgh	SF	36	31.8	9.4	9.6	34	29
37	San Antonio	DeJuan Blair	Pittsburgh	PF	35	27.3	21.8	22.0	1	30
38	Sacramento	Jon Brockman	Washington	PF	34	30.5	14.4	14.6	7	31
40	Charlotte	Derrick Brown	Xavier	PF	35	29.5	9.9	7.6	44	32
41	Milwaukee	Jodie Meeks	Kentucky	SG	36	34.4	7.8	9.5	35	33
43	New Orleans	Marcus Thornton	LSU	SG	35	31.9	10.4	12.1	11	34
44	Houston	Chase Budinger	Arizona	SF	35	37.6	9.5	9.7	31	35
45	Dallas	Nick Calathes	Florida	PG	36	33.3	10.8	13.6	10	36
46	Cleveland	Danny Green	North Carolina	SF	38	27.4	11.3	11.5	18	37
48	Phoenix	Taylor Griffin	Oklahoma	SF	36	30.0	8.7	8.9	37	38
50	Utah	Goran Suton	Michigan State	C	33	25.9	14.0	11.8	14	39
51	San Antonio	Jack McClinton	Miami (FL)	SG	32	32.2	6.4	8.1	40	40
52	Indiana	A.J. Price	Connecticut	PG	35	31.8	5.2	8.0	41	41
54	Oklahoma City	Robert Vaden	UAB	SG	34	36.5	5.2	6.9	46	42
55	Portland	Patrick Mills	Saint Mary's	PG	26	33.3	4.6	7.4	45	43
56	Dallas	Ahmad Nivins	Saint Joseph's	PF	32	39.3	15.1	15.3	4	44
58	Boston	Lester Hudson	Tennessee-Martin	PG	32	36.0	12.3	15.1	5	45
59	LA Lakers	Chinemelu Elonu	Texas A&M	PF	34	23.8	12.9	10.6	24	46
60	Miami	Robert Dozier	Memphis	SF	37	30.2	11.7	11.9	13	47