Now let's see if Cuban and the Mavs can use the #5 pick and maybe Dirk Nowitzki in a trade for Shaq. This should be interesting.
$710.96... The price of freedom.
Posted on 06/24/2004 4:19:36 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan
Just starting now. Orlando up.
thanks for the thread. I'm so busy doing homework and comp stuff I would have missed it!
So how many Christian Laettners will be drafted this year?
Back in the 80s I used to be a huge fan of the NBA draft. Of course, the major difference back then was you followed the players through 4 years of college, for example Partick Ewing, Ralph Sampson, Akeen Olajuwoan, Chris Mullen, even the busts like Walter Berry, Pearl Washington, and Chris Washburn. These days I have no idea who 3/4 of these players are. NBA draft has become more akin to the NHL or MBL draft.
At least I knew who Christian Laettner is. I have no clue who most of the players are or seen them play.
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The endless season just ended and now the brief off season begins. If it wasn't so pathetic, I'd probably like the sport again.
The NBA should get lost for 4 months.
Now let's see if Cuban and the Mavs can use the #5 pick and maybe Dirk Nowitzki in a trade for Shaq. This should be interesting.
$710.96... The price of freedom.
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tatoo thug draft alert.
Supposedly the Mavs are unwilling to trade Dirk even in a deal for Shaq.
I agree with you actually. Very soon March Madness will be the tournament of also-rans instead of a draft showcase. I can just see the NBA now... "If you were any good, why didn't you get drafted out of HS?"
My sentiments exactly. Only I would add a few more names to your list.
You speak heresy!!!!!!!!!!!!
There is no way Cuban should trade Dirk for Shaq.
Of course being the internet billionaire whiz-nerd he is, that is probably exactly what will happen.
As far as I am concerned, Shaq is nothing more than a HUUUUUGE baby. If he wasn't taller than the net, he'd be worthless.
Unfortunately, I have heard comments like that. For example, players who stay in college for 4 years get a rap that they were not good enough to get drafted in the NBA early in their career.
the lakers are idiots if they take a deal without dirk, walker is a stiff.
That's what they say. Anyway, it's now rumored that Steve Nash and Antoine Walker may be offered along with the #5 for O'Neal. I know they say they want to keep Nowitzki, but we'll soon see.
$710.96... The price of freedom.
Future Rapists, Drug Dealers, and Murderers Convention 2004
hopefully the lakers arent dumb enough to trade shaq for a couple nobodies and the fifth player in a weak draft, if so the gm should be fire on the spot.
There is a book out called "Out of Bounds" that tracks the criminal record of NBA players. Supposedly almost half the players have criminal records although that might include misdemeanors.
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