The first thing is a bit strange. Got home tonight and remembered that the draft was tonight. So I flipped over to the NBA Network. ON THE NIGHT OF THE NBA DRAFT, the NBA Network is showing it's seventh repeat of the NBA finals game 6. Say what?!!
Seriously, they aren't televising their own draft, relying on ESPN to do it for them. I can't imagine a more important task for a league's own network, than broadcasting it's own draft.
I also think that the NBA's way of determining draft order is more absurd at the end than at it's very absurd beginning. And I still think they fix ping pong balls. That they don't show it .... SOMEHOW, the Lakers get the second pick. I know they fixed it so the Knicks could draft Patrick Ewing, back when they actually showed you how they did the lottery.
But at the end of the draft, should be the two teams that made the finals. Instead, the Cavs get to draft according to their mediocre regular season record, rather than making the finals.
The Hunter kid, the coaches son who beat Baylor with the late heroics went at the end of the first round. To the Celtics. Just finishing his freshman year? I remember hearing talking heads projecting him as close to a lottery pick. I guess they forgot that these days, half the guys in the lottery are from Europe, Asia or South America.
Thursday night out of the top 13 picks, FOUR were from Kentucky, two were from Duke, three were from other US colleges and the rest were from out of the country. One from Ohio State, Arizona and ugh UTexas.
One other thought. I don't think I'd have to work, if somebody had to pay me ten grand, if they went on tv told us that some kid was a likely lottery pick, who didn't even get drafted. At least so long as the IRS didn't hear about it.
BTW, the Dukie who so many said would be the first pick, while most were telling us it was between Okafor and K A-T ... Okafor didn't go til third. The 76er's think they got a steal. But then they forgot how many Dukies flunk out in the NBA when they don't get every crucial call in a truly important game.
I'm sure he'll be great. Wink wink. But I truly hope he fails.
Seriously, they aren't televising their own draft, relying on ESPN to do it for them. I can't imagine a more important task for a league's own network, than broadcasting it's own draft.
I also think that the NBA's way of determining draft order is more absurd at the end than at it's very absurd beginning. And I still think they fix ping pong balls. That they don't show it .... SOMEHOW, the Lakers get the second pick. I know they fixed it so the Knicks could draft Patrick Ewing, back when they actually showed you how they did the lottery.
But at the end of the draft, should be the two teams that made the finals. Instead, the Cavs get to draft according to their mediocre regular season record, rather than making the finals.
The Hunter kid, the coaches son who beat Baylor with the late heroics went at the end of the first round. To the Celtics. Just finishing his freshman year? I remember hearing talking heads projecting him as close to a lottery pick. I guess they forgot that these days, half the guys in the lottery are from Europe, Asia or South America.
Thursday night out of the top 13 picks, FOUR were from Kentucky, two were from Duke, three were from other US colleges and the rest were from out of the country. One from Ohio State, Arizona and ugh UTexas.
One other thought. I don't think I'd have to work, if somebody had to pay me ten grand, if they went on tv told us that some kid was a likely lottery pick, who didn't even get drafted. At least so long as the IRS didn't hear about it.
BTW, the Dukie who so many said would be the first pick, while most were telling us it was between Okafor and K A-T ... Okafor didn't go til third. The 76er's think they got a steal. But then they forgot how many Dukies flunk out in the NBA when they don't get every crucial call in a truly important game.
I'm sure he'll be great. Wink wink. But I truly hope he fails.
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