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2007 NBA Draft Review: Winners & Losers

Team By Team Breakdown of Picks

This year’s NBA draft was considered to be one of the deepest we’ve seen in a long while.  Normally I’d disagree with the experts and Jay Bilas, but this time they were right.  The new age limit rule has made all of these young kids go to someone’s college for at least a year and play against some better competition.  But no matter how deep a draft might be, some teams will still find a way to screw up their draft night and their franchise’s future.  Here is a report card of the winners and losers from last Thursday night.

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Len Bias: A tragedy

I have never been a big NBA fan and the recent NBA finals didn’t change my opinions about the league. It is mostly a thug league that is heading in the wrong direction. Sure LeBron James is a great player and is good for the league. But, it was the players like Magic Johnson and Larry Bird that led the league into the glorious era that was the 1980s and paved the way for Michael Jordan. Yet there was one player that Magic and Bird paved the way for that never got the chance to play in the NBA and that is the tragic story that is Len Bias

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The Perfect Situation

Everyone knows second round picks in the NBA Draft are no sure things. They don’t have guaranteed salaries, and they damn sure don’t have a guaranteed roster spot. Each second round player has to earn his stripes in summer league action and show his team he was worth the pick, and more, that he’s worth keeping around.

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Who Won And Lost In This Year’s NBA Draft

by Trevor Freeman

Pizza or Tacos………Tacos.  Yuengling, Sierra Nevada Pale Ale or Natty Light……Natty Light.  You gotta go Old School for an event like this.  Golden State Warrior Throwback jersey or Boom Dizzle Warriors Jersey…….Boom Dizzle.  Are there better “drinking” sporting events than the NFL and NBA Drafts?  A couple minutes to pee between picks and grab snacks.  No pressure to pay complete attention.  Mel Kiper and Jay Bilas squaring off to see who can be the bigger sports nerd.  Pro and college intersecting to form a perfect union.  

There are many recaps you can read on this wonderful event.  Just know that every other writer you will read was completely sober when they wrote their recap.  Not only could I not operate heavy machinery at this moment, but I am having problems getting the mouse to work correctly on my mousepad.  That speaks volumes about how much I care about covering this event.  We begin our look at the draft with………  

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A True Role Model

To an avid basketball fan, the name “Stephon Marbury” usually generates responses along the lines of “he’s a selfish point guard who thinks it’s always about him” or “I wouldn’t want that overpaid bum on my team! All the team’s he got traded out of became contenders!”

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Our Look At The NBA Draft

by Trevor Freeman

So I’m at Pat O’Brien’s and I’m playing a little Beirut.  In walk some kids who look to be fresh out of college and eventually my group engages them in some friendly “Beirut” banter.  In my first game against a solid twosome, I offer a “we’re playing 21 cups” in a cocky manner.  Being a veteran I felt that my experience would better translate in a 21 cup game.  The youth responded, “No problem, old-timer”.  The game begins and me and my partner who are both staring 30 in the eye got off to a great start and held on for a close win.  Following this we played two more games and the college kids whupped us.  What does this have to do with the NBA Draft?  Nothing really…….well except for the fact that there are a bunch of young kids about to put a whupping on some veterans.  

People look at this draft as being all about Kevin Durant and Greg Oden.  However there are some nice value plays in here as I think both Al Horford and Corey Brewer will be big-time contributors.  

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Cleveland – San Antonio Series — Youth vs. Experience

The NBA Finals features two teams with many similarities. First, you have teacher Greg Popovich and his student, Mike Brown, former assistant under Pop in San Antonio. Brown and Cleveland General Manager Danny Ferry, who was an executive with San Antonio before landing in Ohio, have tried to mold the Cavs in the shape of the Spurs.

Defense is the name of the game for both teams with the Spurs ranking second in the league in defensive efficiency with the Cavs not far behind at fourth. Offensive efficiency is where San Antonio has a significant edge over Cleveland.

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The Best Of This Era

by Trevor Freeman

“The definition of “Tim Duncanitis” is when the media and followers of a sport make arguments that other players are best, because they just don’t want to state the obvious.  In Tim Duncan’s case, pundits love to predict LeBron James or Dwyane Wade to be the MVP/Best Player in basketball even though it’s painfully clear to every rational human being watching hoops that the best player is indeed Duncan.  This is why Tim Duncan has only won two MVP’s.”

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Make it a series- Mike!

For Mike Brown and the Cleveland Cavaliers, there are two ways to look at the reality of being down 2-0 in the NBA Finals to the San Antonio Spurs: they pack their tails between their legs and run away, or they make adjustments and take the fight to the Spurs.

For the fans of the NBA, and fans of quality basketball for that matter, we pray it’s the latter.

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Lebron Jordan

Now that the world is back to spinning on it’s axis and Lebron James is slowly coming down off his high from getting to the Finals, we can clarify some things. First and foremost, Lebron James is STILL not Michael Jordan. He’s not even Kobe Bryant. Granted, what he did against Detroit and throughout the playoffs was unbelievable, and downright special, but it wasn’t Michael. It was, well, what we expected. You cannot bring this much hype to the table as the so-called “face of the NBA” and not win some playoffs series or get to the final series. And yes, Kevin Garnett, that means up until now your career and all of it’s accomplishments mean nothing. But really, to take that next step, Lebron needs to win the whole thing. Not next year. Not in three years. This year. The difference between Jordan or Kobe and James? Not that James has never won a title, more, the other two guys never lost one.

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