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Chad Ford covers the NBA and NBA Draft for ESPN Insider. He is also a frequent contributor to ESPN the Magazine and makes weekly appearances on ESPN Radio and ESPNEWS.

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Power forwards aplenty in 2010 draft

Chad Ford

Power forward, historically, has been the most coveted position in the draft and NBA teams should be hungry for talented 4s in 2010. The 2009 draft sa...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | December 11, 2009

Stock Watch: Turner's injury a very bad break

Chad Ford

We're now one month into the college basketball season, the Thanksgiving holiday tournaments are over and every player has roughly seven or eight game...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | December 08, 2009

Unheralded players making their mark early

Chad Ford

We've spent the last few weeks covering players who were high on the radar of NBA scouts coming into the season. But every year a few players who were...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | December 03, 2009

Stealthy mid-major programs have NBA talent

Chad Ford

Every year NBA GMs hand out lots of love to players from the big conferences. The overwhelming majority of players drafted in the first round come fro...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 25, 2009

Rookie Watch: Let's give thanks

David Thorpe, Scouts Inc.

Here's what the rookies are doing to make us thankful.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Pondexter heads thin list of college seniors

Chad Ford

College seniors continue to be a dying breed in the NBA draft. The thinking is simple: After four years, all the good players have already left school...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 24, 2009

Ebanks epitomizes players with volatile stock

Chad Ford

For the last decade we've gone about building our Top 100 by surveying NBA scouts and executives on their take on the top prospects in the world. Gen...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 19, 2009

Would-be first-rounders back for better or worse

Chad Ford

If you're a college underclassman with a shot at going in the lottery, chances are you're declaring for the NBA draft. In the past decade, virtually e...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 16, 2009

'Kobe-esque' Barnes heads 2011 draft class

Chad Ford

It may feel a little early to be talking about the 2011 NBA draft, but things were set in motion today when the top high school prospect in the countr...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 13, 2009

How Bosh could join Wade and LeBron

Chad Ford, ESPN.com

The scenarios may look tough, but there are three ways Miami could pull off a dream lineup.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 13, 2009

The boys of summer

Chad Ford

Every summer NBA scouts are out in force, sniffing around, trying to get the latest on what top recruits -- both in the U.S. and abroad -- are doing t...

ESPN Insider Blog Entry | Conversation | November 12, 2009

Celtics' J.R. Giddens could become trade bait

Chris Forsberg

An interesting note from Chad Ford's column Monday on the deadline to extend members of recent draft classes: "The only other...

Blog Entry | Conversation | November 03, 2009

Jack's way out of Golden State

Chad Ford, ESPN.com

How Stephen Jackson could get his wish and part ways with the Golden State Warriors

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | November 09, 2009

Looking ahead: Free-agent class of 2010

Chad Ford, ESPN.com

Chad Ford takes a look at the free-agent class of 2010.

ESPN Insider Story | Conversation | July 31, 2009

Chad Ford's 2009-10 Predictions

Chad Ford, ESPN.com

Our ESPN Insider forecasts the regular-season outcome for the Eastern Conference.

Story | Conversation | October 12, 2009