It took 5 months longer than expected but the NBA Draft is finally here, and I couldn’t be more thankful. But while I do love the NBA Draft, that’s not what this post is about, this is about how to turn the NBA Draft into an exciting drinking game for you and your friends.
Here’s all you need; a tv, alcohol, and friends (either in-person or virtual).
Here are the rules!!
- Number small individual sheets of paper 1 to the # of drinkers playing, then have each player pull a number to determine your own draft order.
- The player who pulls #1 goes first and has two options
- They can guess the specific player drafted which is worth 5 drinks
- They can guess which conference the next player drafted played in (or say international) which is worth only 1 Drink
- If they are correct, they can assign out that number of drinks, or if they are wrong, that’s what they have to drink.
- Here’s where it gets interesting, if you are correct, you get to go again. If you happen to get two in a row right, you get to assign drinks again and you are “heating up”….that’s right, NBA Jam Rules are in effect.
- If you get a third pick in a row correct, you are “On Fire”, and the number of drinks you get to assign continues to double until you’re wrong.
- So let’s say you chose the right conference 3 times in a row; that third correct pick is worth 2 drinks, four in a row is worth 4 drinks, five in a row is worth 8……..and so on.
- If you happen to get five in a row picking the actual players, you may as well just have someone finish their drink.
6. When you get a draft pick wrong, the next person in order gets to go.
By the end of the first round, everyone should have a nice buzz going which makes everyone a winner. And let’s be honest, when you are playing drinking games, the only real loser is who falls down first.