NBA Draft Stuff
by edwzipper on Saturday, June 21st, 2008 at 10:28am
A collection of reading material:
—Mock draft 3.0 from si.com—has Russell Westbrook going to Seattle at number 4 overall. That’s ah, hmmm. Interesting. Unrealistic?
–Ian Thomson at si.com with his dark horses to watch on draft night (he has ROBIN Lopez on the list—take that, Brook)
—Fox Sports’ mock is courtesy of nbadraft.net and has the top 5 picks as Rose/Beasley/Mayo/Bayless/Love. That strikes me as most likely. And I am strangely fine with the notion of Kevin Love coming to Memphis. God knows the Grizzlies could use the basketball IQ he would bring with him.
—Jeff Reynolds at sportsline thinks that when the dust has settled, OJ Mayo will be the best of this draft class. He still mocks him third overall though, to Minnesota.
–Swamp all-everything TF points the way to an honest-to-deity accessible espn.com article of some utility, John Hollinger’s breakdown of the draft’s big men. A quick review of the article yields this thought: Pray your favorite team doesn’t go the Anthony Randolph route. Hollinger rates him lower than Longar Longar. That’s bad bad.
Some draft chatter starting to bubble here in the Swamp (mostly me, but, then, given that I am a Bengals and Grizzlies fan, draft season tends to be my Super Bowl. Sigh). Stop by with a thought or two.