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Official 2005 NBA Draft and Offseason thread
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Charlotte's GM only wants NBA ready players right now.Bat said:
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I agree, Granger sould've been the pick over May.Bowser said:
Oh man, what a draft for the Lakers.. First they pick the 2005 version of Oliver Miller. And later they pick a guy who's had serious anger management issues.. INCLUDING elbowing somone in the face to draw blood during a workout...
BUT, I think Ronny Turiaf will be a solid player for them.
BUT, I think Ronny Turiaf will be a solid player for them.
Damn, Nuggets had me going until they did that stupid trade with the Blazers (which is official). I thought they might have had a good draft for once that wasn't a no-brainer pick (read: 2003) , but then they ship a legit point guard who can shoot away for two nobodies. Julius Hodge would've made more sense to trade, because we need a better backup for Andre than Boykins, and I think Jack could've done it. If Hodge proves me wrong, I'll gladly eat my words, but what this team needs is a shooter, not another slasher. If he doesn't learn to shoot, dude better handle the ball like a PG and play it well, too.
And Babcock needs to be fired. Now. Drafting Villanueva @ 7, when you have KG 2.0 up and coming, with Green, Granger, and even McCants left... just... wow. Richard Peddie needs get rid of him and start that club over for the 5th time in 5 years. That Dr. Suess rhyme about him is totally applicable and valid to him and his dumbass moves. If you didn't believe they should be in the NBDL before, you HAVE to now.
Editt: Also, damn the Nuggets office for not taking Garcia, he'd be the perfect fit for this team
And Babcock needs to be fired. Now. Drafting Villanueva @ 7, when you have KG 2.0 up and coming, with Green, Granger, and even McCants left... just... wow. Richard Peddie needs get rid of him and start that club over for the 5th time in 5 years. That Dr. Suess rhyme about him is totally applicable and valid to him and his dumbass moves. If you didn't believe they should be in the NBDL before, you HAVE to now.
Editt: Also, damn the Nuggets office for not taking Garcia, he'd be the perfect fit for this team
BatiGOOOOOOL
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Incognito said:
I've heard really good things about Gelebale. Very good shooter and defender. I was pretty sure he was going to be the Spurs pick at 28th from everything I've read the last couple of weeks.
Maybe you'll be right for the first time since... forever.
lmao I'm watching SportsCenter where they're doing "All Access with Chris Paul" and they showed Paul watching AtH, at the point where Tim Calishaw was talking about how Green woud be the best player out of the draft and Paul wouldn't do too good because he is only 6' and Paul said, "Whadda ya mean ya can't be good if you aren't taller than 6'? Don't tell that to Steve Nash, he's league MVP. Tom Cowlishaw..."
:lol
:lol
:lol
"So Charlie, how does it feel to be a Raptor?"
"duuuhh...uhhh...feel like very good"
"Where will you play with the Raptors already having Chris Bosh?"
"uhh...center...small forward...umm...I so great...point gaurd...don't matta"
"What do you think of the millions of Raptors fans who think you are the wrong pick?"
"*chuckles* haha...dey so dumb...
"So Charlie, how does it feel to be a Raptor?"
"duuuhh...uhhh...feel like very good"
"Where will you play with the Raptors already having Chris Bosh?"
"uhh...center...small forward...umm...I so great...point gaurd...don't matta"
"What do you think of the millions of Raptors fans who think you are the wrong pick?"
"*chuckles* haha...dey so dumb...
Ninja Scooter
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:lol Charlie Leukimia
Ninja Scooter
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bionic77 said:
he's already doing that.
I watched the draft for about 20 minutes and had to turn it off. ESPN coverage was horrible. Is there a player the analysts didn't like? Hell we had Jason Kidd, Scottie Pippen, Tracy McGrady, and Isiah Thomas all invoked in this telecast. Pathetic. Please don't broadcast another NBA draft after the first 12 picks next year Kthx.
http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/050629&num=0
and I'll save you the trouble
"8:14 Remember my running joke about Charlie Villanueva looking like the lead singer of Midnight Oil? Well, Charlie has a new claim to fame he just became one of the top-five worst picks in the history of the NBA draft. Toronto took him seventh. Seventh! Seventh! Rob Babcock just drafted Rafael Araujo and Charlie Villanueva with back-to-back top-10 picks when he already had Chris Bosh! And he just left Green and Danny Granger on the board! Throw in the Carter trade and are we absolutely sure that Babcock isn't Scott Layden using a fake Canadian passport? You're lucky I didn't start out as the Toronto Sports Guy, I would have been capable of 25 to 30 straight Babcock columns this summer."
and I'll save you the trouble
"8:14 Remember my running joke about Charlie Villanueva looking like the lead singer of Midnight Oil? Well, Charlie has a new claim to fame he just became one of the top-five worst picks in the history of the NBA draft. Toronto took him seventh. Seventh! Seventh! Rob Babcock just drafted Rafael Araujo and Charlie Villanueva with back-to-back top-10 picks when he already had Chris Bosh! And he just left Green and Danny Granger on the board! Throw in the Carter trade and are we absolutely sure that Babcock isn't Scott Layden using a fake Canadian passport? You're lucky I didn't start out as the Toronto Sports Guy, I would have been capable of 25 to 30 straight Babcock columns this summer."
Sirpopopop
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Andrew Bynum - all the local hoop gurus (I live in the area) are calling this pick an absolute steal.*
* A steal for Andrew Bynum stealing money from the Lakers I mean.
* A steal for Andrew Bynum stealing money from the Lakers I mean.
So did anyone figure out what the Lakers' "secret" was that Pippen talked about last week? I'm pretty curious, myself. I wouldn't be surprised if it was another flagrant bending/changing of the rules to help LA become competitive again, a la the change to a 7 game first round a couple of years back (i.e., "the LA rule"). 
It hasn't been updated since he was drafted, but it's still a pretty slick site.
http://www.charlievillanueva.org/home.html (site has music)
http://www.charlievillanueva.org/home.html (site has music)
Hey that's not nice! 4 million Americans have Alopecia! If you visited his store you'd know that "the majority of the sale proceeds will be donated to the following non-profit organizations: National Alopecia Areata Foundation, Time Square Church, and Red Cross; the remaining profits will be used to maintain this website." He's just a good guy!
Aruarian Reflection
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There wouldn't happen to be a torrent of the Draft floating around would there? There's so many things that Sports Guy mentioned that I wish I could have seen. McCants tapping Stern on the shoulder :lol
:lol at Bill Simmons on ESPN radio talking about the Bynum pick. The host + Bill were ripping on the pick pretty hard, and Bill thinks there's a conspiracy out there to drive Kobe out of town.
They took a few calls from Laker fans as well, one of them who argued that it's a good pick because it's a sign that soon the Lakers will completely bottom out, Mitch Kuptchak will be out, Phil will be gone, and someone else will be brought in to clean house.
They took a few calls from Laker fans as well, one of them who argued that it's a good pick because it's a sign that soon the Lakers will completely bottom out, Mitch Kuptchak will be out, Phil will be gone, and someone else will be brought in to clean house.
Loki said:So did anyone figure out what the Lakers' "secret" was that Pippen talked about last week? I'm pretty curious, myself. I wouldn't be surprised if it was another flagrant bending/changing of the rules to help LA become competitive again, a la the change to a 7 game first round a couple of years back (i.e., "the LA rule").
Lakers get to play with 6 players instead of 5, they are allowed to carry knives onto the court, and they get a 10 point lead to start every game.
P.S. No matter what your black heart says, the 7 game first round change will always and forever be known as the T-Mac rule. Stern hates T-Mac and knows that T-Mac's powers vanish after winning 3 games dooming him to forever stay in the first round (Yao's powers vanish after running up and down the court 2 times, but Stern had nothing to do with that).
DMczaf said:WTF @ the BET Awards
Magic gets a lap dance and Jordan gets a shoutout from Will Smith, wtf.
Magic married someone named Cookie who stayed married to him even after she found out he contracted HIV (even though he had sex with so many women even just the year before he got it that he said it was impossible to know who he got it from). Jordan is a married to a scary alien who is threatening to divorce him and take the kids if he gets out of line, this after some scary ugly white women tried to blackmail him for something that happened like 10 years earlier.
Not that hard to figure out DM. Jordan obviously married the devil.
Ninja Scooter
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why did Magic get stuck getting a lap dance from the ugly one? He should have had Beyonce goddamit. He's Magic Fucking Johnson!
Cloudy said:
Here's what I want the Bobcats to do:
Resign: Knight, Kapono, Rush, Wallace, and Carroll.
Sign Wesley Person from Denver (can't remember if he was a RFA or a URFA).
That's it. That's all. Here is what the roster would look like:
Felton/Knight/Hart
Person/Rush/Carroll
Wallace/Kapono
Okafor/May/Ely
Brezec/Okafor/Ely
I can definately see the Bobcats using Okafor at C and May at PF when Brezec is resting on the bench.
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