2007 NBA Draft Thread, started on the night of the lottery.

Oh wellz, at least we guaranteed another couple years of (Beli)Nelli ball.

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guys yeah i think im out guys yeah

MY PREDICTION: THAD YOUNG 3RD BEST PLAYER OF THIS DRAFT ALSO IM NOT SURE IM A BASKETBALL FAN ANYMORE

and the bulls got noah - more power to em yah

AWWW MCAINZ WIFE AWWWW

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id do her i mean ijust need someone to hold me right now someone not ray ray

City Women Agree: The Farmer Needs a Wife

fyi

thaddeus is a pimp, i was hoping the hawks would get him along w/conley, tho i cant complain at all abt horford/acie

wow i cant believe i was drunk posting just 5 hours ago - waht a beautiful dream. also cant believing how much the nba hates zach randolph. wtf dude must actually be the douche to end all.

There are much worse douche bags in the nba than Randolph. That isn't saying much in his favor, though. He can give you 20 and 10 every night, but his big problem is that he can't be a role player and you can't build a successful team around him. So he's just another expensive millstone, like so many other players are.

But is he a bigger or smaller millstone than Steve Francis?

He also gives the guy he's guarding about 30 a night while he's obsessing over his own 20 and 10. I went to almost every game at the Rose Garden over the last couple years. Hope Knicks fans enjoy watching Zach stare at the stat counter for 48 minutes.

Now the Knicks have two Eddy Currys, although at least Randolph can stick his arms up in the air and grab some boards. The DePaul kid is benefiting quite nicely from the Renaldo Balkman effect!

I love how Marco Bellinellinnellyball wasn't on ANY first round mock drafts, but the talking heads still insisted he was a good pick. It reminds me of when the Patriots draft ... automatic praise. If the Warriors drafted Roberto Benigni or Francesco Totti, I think the response woulda been exactly the same.

Was Tiago Splitter DESTINED to go to the Spurs or what? I was kinda hoping they'd grab Big Baby and have Duncan/Pops whip him into shape, though. Also, I really liked Oberto's play in the playoffs, so it'd be weird if they let him get away in free agency. Resign that fella.

Minnesota drafted Rashad McCants for the third consecutive year.

I'm gonna miss J-Rich. :(

Haha, Tiago fulfilled the Spurs annual requisite foreign power forward selection (Luis Scola, Ian Mahinmi) and I'm guessing dude will probably never play for us.

Aimless is otm with this: "but his big problem is that he can't be a role player and you can't build a successful team around him." How many guys in the league can be described this way that basically fill up stat sheets and do fuck all for a team?

oh right. "The brother from DePaul" was maybe my favorite moment of the draft.

Is anyone calling Oden "thunder god" yet?
Because I am.

Man, Spencer Hawes, strikes one and two here:

Spencer Hawes is a hardcore conservative from, of all places, the liberal stronghold of Seattle. He was drafted into a city (Sacramento) where one of the country's most recognizable Republican governors (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is in office. Hawes says he "loves" Arnold, and that he brought True Lies with him on the trip to New York, with plans to watch it on the flight home. "Now it has a little extra meaning for me," Hawes said.

When I spoke with Hawes at the league's predraft camp on May 31, he talked about a recent Public Debate class exercise at the University of Washington. In it, he said, he denied the entire existence -- and human cause -- of global warming. When asked for his take on Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth, Hawes said, "It's one big lie. I talked about that in my opening speech -- it's the media's liberal overexaggeration of just about everything."

Will root for his demise openly.

God of lightening, more like.

The past two days I've picked up The Oregonian newspaper to find stories and photos that try to emphasize how immensely huge Greg Oden is. That's silly. He isn't a new Shaq. The Trailblazers already have a center, Pryzbilla, who's bigger than Oden in both height and weight.

Oden's gift is his quickness and timing for his size. He runs like the wind, moves his feet like blue blazes, shifts to the weak side in a blink, and times his jumps excellently well. He's a 7 ft. gazelle, not a sasquatch. He even looks Bill Russell. Sweet.

But he isn't the biggest guy in the league by a long shot.

Could someone tell Spencer Haw-Hawes that Arnold favors gay marriage and a federally mandated cap on CO2 emissions?

yah oden is much more in the david robinson mold

shit, shaq used to run like a deer. he wasnt just some big motherfucker when he first came into the league~

When Shaq really starts to let himself go, it is going to be a woeful sight to behold.

So why are so many people taking pains to pronounce Yi's surname the "right way" when so few have done so with me???

Obviously, you are inconsequential. I said it. Satisfied now?

No. ;_;

What's it going to take, then?

2 years, $6 million with an option for a third year.

My people will get in touch with your people.

Oden out for entire season ;_;

Why my life always gotta get ruined??????????

if the blazers dont take durant 1st they are toal retards part2 ala the jordan draft. oden is mr alonzo mourning if every thing works out ok. i keep saying this but no one is listening. not that i like basketball at all any more ever.

-- jhøshea

respect

lol amazing document with the slur and everything

When Shaq really starts to let himself go, it is going to be a woeful sight to behold.

― polyphonic, Monday, July 2, 2007 5:18 PM (sixteen years ago) bookmarkflaglink

Not sure I agree with myself there lol he looks okay