Random NBA Draft Thoughts
By now, everyone and their teary-eyed single mother has weighed in on the NBA Draft festivities — see: Shoals, Shanoff, Ziller, SLAM, the Haus crew (including MJD’s Schrutebucks), the TrueHoop Blogger team, Steinz, two FD’ers, etc., etc. But I figured I’d try and do right and get a few quick thoughts up here anyways. So, in no particular order:
My favorite moment of the night was the shot of Yi trying to open a bottle of Sprite. I think it happened pre-draft. Did anyone else catch this? Hilarious.
Before you ask, yes, Tas is freaking pumped that the Raps acquired Greek forward Giorgos Printezis from the Spurs for a future 2nd round pick. In fact, I’ve already received confirmation that Tas has bought (and tucked in) his customized jersey.
Me: Corey Brewer looks like he should be in the next ‘Kings of Comedy’ flick. Becky: Noah = Ugliest. Outkast member. Ever.
If you need me, I’ll be in Europe. Single tear.
QUITE FRANKLY, this STEPHEN A. SMITH impersonation BLOWS. (With that said, some of the Socks’ lines — “I hereby dub, Joakim Noah, the ‘People’s Princess’” — were money.)
I’ve flip-flopped on how I feel about that Sonics-Celtics trade three or four times already. On one hand, it sort of makes sense. The Sonics get to hand the franchise keys to KD, while the Celts pick up a bona fide (albeit aging) All-Star to pair with Pierce in the East. On the other hand, it sucks ass. I’ll save my final thoughts on this (and the Randolph and J-Rich trades) until Tuesday morning’s podcast. Try and sleep at night, OK.
Stuckey is NOT the next D-Wade. Julius Hodge is! How many times do I have to tell you this? Rise, Julius, rise.
Love Utah’s late first-round pick: Morris Almond, a 6-6 human Lite-Brite. The Jazz were in desperate need of outside scoring. This guy should help. Man, Williams, Boozer, Okur, Brewer, Millsap, still AK, now Almond … this is a young and talented team.
I don’t care how well the Hawks drafted last night; those new Bobcat-like jerseys are ugly! I mean, where the fuck is the yellow? Where!?!? You can’t do that! So sad.
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The Basketball Jones ‘NBA Draft Preview’ — Ep. 181 (.mp3)
On today’s show, Tas and I are joined by Dan Shanoff to breakdown tonight’s NBA Draft storylines.
Who will go #1 — Oden or Durant? Will the Hawks finally do right? Is ‘Big Baby’ Davis this year’s sleeper-tweener? Is Taureen Green any worse than Mike Conley Jr.? So many questions, so little time on the clock!
Oh, all that, and we give Oden a nickname, talk Kobe and KG trade rumors, curse stupid people, and much, much more…
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(Extra: After you’re done with the show, make sure to check out my pics from last year’s Draft festivities and the How-To Rookie Portrait guide. Ah, good times.)
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