- You can make your own mock draft on DraftExpress. If I were a two-bit college player with inifinite free time, I'd make ten thousand of them with myself as the top overall pick, just to see if I could get a scout to come to my game.
- The Knicks great hope for the future is, and will be, Eddy Curry. As Howard Beck points out in The New York Times, they have pretty much zero chance of a high draft pick in 2007 either (unless they trade for it). "But the most potentially devastating aspect of the Curry trade is a seldom-discussed wrinkle. The Knicks also gave the Bulls the option to exchange first-round picks in 2007 — again, without conditions. And next year's draft is projected to be stocked with impact players, led by the current prep star Greg Oden, a 7-foot center. There were seven 7-footers in this year's McDonald's All-Star Game, and according to one general manager, all could be picked in the first round in 2007."
- It has been real, Bucks Town.
- The last practice of the Blazers' year fittingly included "suicides."
- For those of you who can't wait until tomorrow to sort out who will play who in the eastern conference.
- I thought the whole "Memphis and the Clippers both want to lose" story had been a little overdone. But now I'm positive. NPR covers the NBA about once a month, and even they are telling this story. By the way, Memphis won and gets to play Dallas in the first round. I hope they win, just to show up the Clippers. The Clippers, meanwhile, earned homecourt advantage in the first-round against the Nuggets. Top of the agenda, Mr. Stern: changing these playoff seedings.
- Darius Miles and Zach Randolph haven't just been lazy and distracted at times. They have been pitching fits, it appears, in attempts to get traded (a la Ruben Patterson). And they're doing it in part because they don't like Nate McMillan's tough love. Here's Jason Quick: "The gist of Miles' and Randolph's complaints are twofold: They don't like playing on what has turned out to be the NBA's worst team; and they don't care for the discipline meted out by first-year coach Nate McMillan."
- Jim Brunner and Bob Young in the Seattle Times: "Sonics owners said Tuesday in a letter to Mayor Greg Nickels the team wants to know this month whether city officials will back a $220 million KeyArena expansion. If not, the team, which started playing in Seattle in 1967, may leave."
- Danny Ainge has a plan.
- Smart insight for Miami Heat fans.
- The Garnett Center.
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