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If the 2009 NBA draft were held over again today, how would it go? I asked a handful of NBA GMs and while they

weren't unanimous in their orders, certain points became clear: Blake Griffin still would be No. 1, though one GM would've taken James Harden in a do-over; Taj Gibson and Jrue Holiday made the biggest leaps; Hasheem Thabeet, Jonny Flynn and Jordan Hill all would've fallen out of the top 10. This is slightly different from the one I did for CSN during the Warriors-Celtics telecast, in that I only asked that set of GMs to order the top 10 with Jrue included. I neglected to account for several other lower picks slipping into the top 10. Here is the new and improved order as it would go today, with where they went in '09 in parentheses: 1. Blake Griffin (1) 2. James Harden (3) 3. Jrue Holiday (17) 4. Steph Curry (7) 5. Ricky Rubio (5) 6. Ty Lawson (18) 7. Taj Gibson (26) 8. DeMar DeRozan (9) 9. Tyreke Evans (4) 10. Brandon Jennings (10)