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its like jordan has downs

6/26/2008 11:02:33 PM

well at least we didnt get sonny weems lol

6/26/2008 11:03:28 PM

JR GIDDENS

lol

6/26/2008 11:06:43 PM

good to see sean singletary get drafted

6/26/2008 11:11:11 PM

Singletary could have made it with the Bobcats....I think he could actually play well in the NBA. Sure he is small but he is really fast, has a good handle, and can shoot. Why couldn't he be the next Chris Paul?

[Edited on June 26, 2008 at 11:16 PM. Reason : Isn't the plan to make Felton a 2 anyway?]

6/26/2008 11:16:27 PM

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"Why couldn't he be the next Chris Paul?"

Because he's not good enough. Chris Paul is just nasty and always has been.

6/26/2008 11:19:03 PM

At UVA, Sean basically was the whole team.....his junior year he had Reynolds but this past year he had no help at all.

6/26/2008 11:20:03 PM

That doesn't mean he can be the next Chris Paul. Chris Paul is probably going to go down as one of the top PGs ever. Singletary MIGHT make an all-star team or two...and that's a big might.

6/26/2008 11:27:53 PM

I know he probably won't be near as good but Paul just shows that size doesn't mean everything. I like what Singletary brings and wish Charlotte would have took a chance on him instead of Weaver.

6/26/2008 11:35:08 PM

ok wtf just happened there. Shan Foster singing a song about the draft

"I.. can't wait to play.. in the NBA"

6/26/2008 11:37:16 PM

Hahaha. Did anyone just hear that guy's song?

6/26/2008 11:37:27 PM

Sweet, James Gist made it!

6/26/2008 11:54:35 PM

Deron Washington gets drafted and Chris Lofton doesn't?????

6/27/2008 12:06:29 AM

Washington has a lot more NBA style talent... Lofton might catch on somewhere as a black Steve Kerr type

6/27/2008 12:07:57 AM

washington jumped over a guy

6/27/2008 12:36:43 AM

God somewhere his trashy mom has a big shit-eating grin on her face....

So glad we don't have to see his ugly ass or his mom anymore.

6/27/2008 12:41:06 AM

woof

6/27/2008 12:48:52 AM

The chances of hearing "Its Gay to Love" at a Grizz game this season is apparently nil as the Grizz trade him & Miller to the Twolves for Jaric, A Walker, & Mayo

6/27/2008 1:10:21 AM

its funny how they talk about how we need to watch out for the 2nd round players because they can make a splash too, and then they reel off Manu and Monte Ellis as their two examples. whooptie doo

6/27/2008 2:43:14 AM

From Simmons draft diary this morning... perfect

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"5:24: Our first stunner of the night: Charlotte reaching for D.J. Augustin at No. 9, followed by a shot of a devastated Brook Lopez in the stands. Hey, any time you have a chance to grab a career backup with the ninth pick, you gotta do it. (Do you think Charlotte's war room is located on the ninth hole at MJ's golf course? Like, it's basically him on his cell phone and two other guys on Treos trying to rush the pick in before they sneak in nine more holes? The Bobcats might be the worst-run franchise in the league. And that's saying something. If MJ's Bulls career was like Ted Danson's run on "Cheers," then his Wizards comeback was "Becker," and this current Bobcats debacle is definitely "Help Me Help You.")"

6/27/2008 8:57:09 AM

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"If MJ's Bulls career was like Ted Danson's run on "Cheers," then his Wizards comeback was "Becker," and this current Bobcats debacle is definitely "Help Me Help You.")""

ahahahaa

6/27/2008 9:03:54 AM

Congrats to MJ for another worthless draft.

Larry Bird had an expansion draft for the Pacers.

Congrats to CNNSI for using Courtney Fells' picture as JJ Hickson's draft shot.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/basketball/2008/draft/tracker/draft_analysis/

6/27/2008 9:06:30 AM

With the exception of maybe the top 7 picks, I feel like this was a kind of random draft. It seems like you always have 2 or 3 guys going higher than you thought they would and 2 or 3 guys go lower than you thought they would. But it seemed like there was 10 of each of those this year.

Or maybe I just have a short memory and this happens every year.

6/27/2008 9:26:43 AM

i was hoping that when i woke up this morning and checked the newspaper i'd see that we had packaged some recently drafted players to trade for a veteran like we did last year

6/27/2008 9:50:15 AM

The Warriors drafted Brandon Wright again.

6/27/2008 9:59:54 AM

Big article in the Observer about how we almost traded Gerald Wallace for TJ Ford

6/27/2008 10:02:52 AM

Love and Mayo have been swapped

Mike Miller goes with love to Minnesota, Antoine Walker to Memphis, a few other players involved too

6/27/2008 10:12:39 AM

Mayo's got to be happy now. He looked like he was at a funeral last night when the t-wolves picked him...thinking about shoveling snow out of his driveway for the next three years.

6/27/2008 10:15:42 AM

still though he moves from minnesota to memphis...aside from the weather, thats not much of an upgrade

6/27/2008 10:25:24 AM

^^ you should put quotes around your post when you copy someone else's words

like this:

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"but poor Mayo and his entourage look like they're consoling each other at a wake right now. Bad sign."

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"Not right now, not when he's coming to the realization he will be spending the next five years shoveling snow in Minnesota."

6/27/2008 10:44:44 AM

^Ha...you know I was thinking about that when I wrote that. I couldn't remember if it was a shoveling snow comment or not. Either way, its not fair when a sportswriter takes the two most generic comments...does that mean I can't use it just because Bill Simmons says the most obvious things??

Someone looks depressed = people are depressed when they are at a funeral or when they find out someone they are close to dies (the funeral/wake comment is used all the time).

A black kid who just spent a year in Southern California gets drafted by a team in probably the coldest city that has an NBA franchise = make some joke about something people don't like doing in the snow or ice.

6/27/2008 10:58:59 AM

like you said he spent the last year in southern california and even in high school he seemed like he was ready for the spotlight...but he doesnt go to new york or chicago or los angeles or miami...he goes to minnesota and then memphis...

6/27/2008 11:09:02 AM

^^ I was just busting your balls. Simmons does have a way of relating to what the average fan is thinking, though.

6/27/2008 11:15:42 AM

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

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"20 Charlotte (from Denver) Alexis Ajinca 7-1 240 PF France Ajinca is 20 years old and averaged 5 ppg in France. In the history of the NBA draft, has there ever been a player who averaged 5 ppg or less who turned into a decent player? Ajinca was a workout warrior, dominating some of the other big men in the past few weeks. And he has great size and skills. But can he turn them into production on the court? He'll likely stay in France to develop."

6/27/2008 3:54:39 PM

no shit jay bilas

6/27/2008 3:58:18 PM

http://www.nbadraft.net/admincp/profiles/alexisajinca.html

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2k87y_alexis-ajinca-fiba-world-championsh_sport embed please

looks like he could have crazy upside as a lanky 3 or 4.

6/27/2008 5:27:59 PM

Seems like if you are drafting a foreign player to be a good team guy and help add to your team it works, but just don't count on them to be "the guy" to lead you to a championship.

They do play better team ball though, easier to convince a foreign guy to buy into your team system then get a college guy to sacrafice his 24 shots a game he is use to getting.

6/27/2008 6:16:36 PM

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"easier to convince a foreign guy to buy into your team system"

...assuming they understand english well enough to know what you're asking them to do

6/27/2008 6:42:34 PM

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"The Bobcats might be the worst-run franchise in the league. And that's saying something."

Might? They are. This is ridiculous. A day later and it's even worse looking at it. DJ over Lopez, a 7-foot goofball who can't walk over anyone (what's worse is it's a pick we traded for to prolly get Hibbert or the other Lopez), and Weaver over CDR.

6/28/2008 12:02:03 AM