Posts Tagged ‘NBA Draft’

19-year old French wing Nicholas Batum with the 25th pick in the first round is the official sign that we’ve passed to that part of the NBA draft where teams can officially just pick names out of a hat or from the yellow pages or randomly out of Facebook or from wherever. Somebody’s got [...]

With this pick they just acquired in a trade with Denver and they took one, but it’s not somebody I know anything about. French center Alexis Ajinca looks, well, tall, and probably has a great pallet but I don’t know if he brings much more to tobacco country than that.
Guess that’s why they think [...]

Spindly 7-0 center JaVale McGee, the Wizards have, well, made the type of non-descript pick that befits a franchise that could disappear immediately with few people caring or noticing.

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Player that has a chance to make a, well, minor-to-middling impact this season. If he can give the Phoenix Suns 8-to-10 minutes a game of rebounding and D, then this will be a pretty good pick for the Suns.

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Taking 6-11 Rider big Jason Thompson at numero 12 could be a bit of a reach for Sacto but with a frontline that consists of Brad Miller and Mikki Moore, Thompson’s a good fit. Don’t be surprised if he’s one of the few guys picked outside the top five that starts next season.

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That Charlotte’s given up on Raymond Felton?

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Joe Alexander’s a good story and has shot up the draft board meteorically, but is really the best player the Milwaukee Bucks could’ve gotten with the 8th pick? The answer to that question is no.

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But he’s going to eternal mess that is the LA Clipper so he’s pretty much irrelevant until his contract expires in three years.

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That Donnie Walsh, Mike D’Antoni and the rest of the Knicks braintrust wanted to hear lots of boos because they picked Italian forward Danilo Gallinari. I don’t know much about Gallinari’s game but I do know that he’s got to have a brass pair and Rambo-like guts to sit there with Steven A. Smith, [...]

The Bulls did, well, the only thing and took Windy City native Derrick Rose with number one. Let’s see what Pat Riley does with the second pick

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Given the mess at MSG, even with Munster-looking Donnie Walsh and Mike D’Antoni on the job, it really shouldn’t be that much of a surprise that the New York Knickerbockers shit the bed when it came to the NBA draft lottery. With a 137 out of a 1,000 chance of snaring the first pick, New York ended up the 6th overall pick, which wouldn’t be so bad but for the fact that the Knicks finished in the bottom four of the league last year and have pretty much nothing to show for it.

This is one of those NBA drafts where just about everybody agrees on who the top two players are, in this case it’s exhilarating point guard Derrick Rose and studly forward Michael Beasley, but the rest of the draft, while filled with talent and potential, is void of consensus.