I prefer to think that Boston ends up #1 and then uses the rest of the picks to move up in the mid first.
We saw last year that other teams aren't going to take the pupu platter of picks and give up a better pick. Or else we would have Porzingas or Winslow. (Or was Danny wanting to get Winslow up at four as well in dealing with the Knicks?)
So yes, I am very with you in preferring to think, and pray, that Boston ends up #1!
And ALiveH, I agree, I would trade all the picks we have in the next three years to be able to get the number one slot in this draft, and maybe even to get the number two. Otherwise they will just be spent on the Fab Mello's of the world. Or maybe we get lucky and get a Jimmy Butler or Draymon Green, but won't have the playing time to give them and they don't develop. It is a crappy situation, when you have all the assets in the world but can't get any greater value out of them by combining them.
What team would be stupid enough to trade Ben Simmons or Brandon Ingram for, let's say, draft picks 5, 19 & 20 of the 2016 draft, number 5 in 2017 and number 5 and number 20 in 2018? That is considering the Nets stay about at their level now and don't improve. So, yes, we need to hit the lottery this year.
Edit - Dammit, that depresses me.