Like a lot of college basketball fans, I was shocked to see Pittsburgh’s DeJuan Blair drop to the 37th overall pick in this year’s draft. Sure, he doesn’t have ideal power forward height, and he has a history of knee problems… but he played much bigger than his listed height would indicate, routinely abusing the [...]
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The Minnesota/Washington trade shakes things up at the top of the draft, and our mock draft has been updated accordingly. The new top five: Clippers: Blake Griffin – Same as it ever was. Grizzlies: Hasheem Thabeet – Going on the assumption that this week’s cancelled workout wasn’t a subtle way of saying, “Please don’t draft [...]
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With less than a week to go before the main event, we tender to you our latest set of wild guesses. We’re still comfortably certain that Blake Griffin will go first overall. After that, things get dicey, as neither of the projected number two picks sound all that excited about the possibility of playing in [...]
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Thabeet was an absolute game-changer for Connecticut, dominating the paint for Jim Calhoun’s Huskies for three seasons. If he had stayed in school for one more year, he would likely have shattered the all-time Division I record for blocked shots. Thabeet is no lumbering paint-clogger — he possesses remarkable athleticism and speed for someone his [...]
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The NBA Draft rumor mill is churning out new stories every hour on the hour — and some of those rumors are reflected in this update of our mock draft. via NBA Draft 2.0 – Projecting the top 30 picks in the 2009 NBA Draft.
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