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Who's in and who's out of the draft?

"20.  DENVER   Ty Lawson 6-0   PG UNC

GM Notes:  Needing a PG, the Denver Nuggets sleect Ty Lawson from the University of North Carolina. With the backcourt of Lawson and Iverson our goal will be to simply outscore everyone to make up for the lack of D and size in the backcourt. With a lineup of Lawson, Iverson, Anthony, Klieza and Camby we have a fast, mobile group who can fly up and down the floor, add to that the elevation in Denver and a lot of teams will leave gassed and with a loss."

I guess my selection will have to be redone as well as the NJ/LAC trade as both Lawson and Budinger are supposedly pulling out.

Also those who were high on grabbing Hudson with the 33rd (yea) he pulled out as well (boo.) Also it is kinda funny the guy we had in twice is not staying in, Beaubois.

Gallinari is in but whether or not he will come over is drafted by a team he does not want is up for debate as he has a pretty good deal lined up in Italia and may just want to stay there and play. He has also made some comments that he would only want to play in NY or NJ, bigger market teams with high Italian populations as well.

http://www.draftexpress.com/article/Early-Entry-Withdrawal-Deadline-Who-s-In-or-Out--537-EST--2929/

Interesting stuff.

 

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Oh what's with the obnoxious provincialism?

We saw this with Yi whatshisface, last year’s Chinese phenom who got drafted by the Bucks. The dude insisted that he only wanted to play on a big market team. I’m glad the Bucks didn’t let him get his way. I felt like telling him that the NBA - all of it - is a big market team. Who the heck was he to be questioning which team he ended up playing on? Just play the damn game. Lucky even to be in the league. Be a professional, not a whiny-faced little provincialist.

Same with Gallinari. Another case of whiny-faced provincialism. If he wants to be around Italian people then he oughta move back to Italy.

by Love on Jun 16, 2008 5:02 PM PDT reply actions  

Totally agree

I think it stemmed back to when Steve Francis only wanted to play in a city with other Americans, and then to his dismay was forced to go live with Canadians (yuck!) I mean c’mon, they are ALMOST a NBA team.

by RememberRastaMonsta! on Jun 16, 2008 5:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

I can't wait for the Bucks to draft Gallinari.

It’s the whole premise of Dogma.

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by T Darkstar on Jun 16, 2008 7:13 PM PDT up reply actions  

Gallanari to the Bucks.... easy call

what other team in their position would waste a pick like that?

If you dont talk to your cats about catnip, who will?

by bow4meow on Jun 16, 2008 7:43 PM PDT up reply actions  

chinese phenom?

I dont think he was ever described as a phenom or even potential phenom. You’re not referring to the joke “Ha” are you?

If you dont talk to your cats about catnip, who will?

by bow4meow on Jun 16, 2008 7:41 PM PDT up reply actions  

no,

he would be the korean phenom.

"you have long words
they make long writing" ratbastird

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by ptwnblzr on Jun 16, 2008 11:34 PM PDT up reply actions  

Gallinari

will now drop to #13, and KP, having interviewed him, will take him.

Next year, he will be European player of the year, and win so many trophies his wife will tell him, “Galli, too many trophies, our living room is too crowded. Go be a big fish in a big pond.”

He will come over in 2009-2010, and win ROY for us as our 8th man off the bench, scoring 18 ppg in only 12 minutes on 83% shooting. He will buy a very large house in Portland, so that there is room for all of his new trophies, and for the extra rings he will win (after he has one for each of his ten fingers).

The stuff about bigger markets with Italian populations is just something he and KP cooked up to get teams to leave him in the draft until #13.

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by jscot on Jun 17, 2008 8:20 AM PDT reply actions  

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