Other notable draft events that I've caught on ESPN in the last few minutes:*** The Heat did indeed draft Michael Beasley. That sneaky Pat Riley.
*** The Pacers are making a bunch of trades. Jermaine O'Neal is going to Toronto for T.J. Ford. They're also going to have both of the Rush brothers--Brandon and Kareem--after a trade with Portland.
*** The crazy fans at the draft keep chanting "Silver! Silver!" every time Adam Silver, the NBA Deputy Commissioner, comes to the podium to announce a pick. He looks like he's getting a real kick out of it.
With the 45th pick, the Spurs select Goran Dragic, a point guard from Slovenia.
*** The Mavericks just selected Shan Foster with the 52nd pick. The commentators are making a big deal out of how he looks just like Usher and that he even plays the piano. Then they showed a clip of him singing a song that he wrote just for draft day. He was sitting in front of a keyboard while it was playing a preset song (or maybe he had recorded it--but he wasn't playing it at that time), and singing about how "no one shoots the 3 like me / I can't wait to play in the NBA.") It was awesome.*** The Portland Trailblazers have like 20 picks in this draft.
*** 5 Kansas Jayhawks were drafted this year.
Okay, the Spurs have one more pick at 57 in the draft. That's 4 picks away. Hurry up Houston. You know who you're going to pick, just pick. OK. here comes Adam Silver. Maarty Loonin (Maarty with two a's).
OK, Spurs on the clock. It's the 57th pick overall. That's almost exactly where the Spurs got Manu Ginobili.
And...aw, crap. They made a pick during a commercial. I didn't see who they got. Here we go: James Gist, a Forward from Maryland.
Okay, there we go. That's a draft for me. I have beers that need drinking at Don's with my man Matt Cross.
UPDATE: The Spurs have traded Goran Dragic to the Suns for Malik Harrison, a 6-6 Small Forward from Oregon.
7 comments:
Dude, George Hill, 6'2", 181??
Those are my dimensions almost exactly. But it looks like he wears those 181 a little differently.
George Hill? Never heard of him. But his school is a palindrome and I like that. I like that a lot.
I just think it's funny that even Wikipedia had to think about what in the world IUPUI stood for! I only feel sorry for George Hill the astronomer, the director, and the race car driver who lost their spots on top of the George Hill search results since this breaking news. Their presence will surely be missed. Go Spurs!
Haha! Hopefully our George Hill can keep the others beat down into third-page Google obscurity. Now if he was up against George Hill the astronomer/director/race car driver things might be a little different.
i like the looks of this guy Hill, do we have any conformations on his tattoos? I'm betting he's getting a Spur'n'boots on his lower back.
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