When you're talking draft, get your JELL-a-balls and your KLAY-zas straight or you'll look like a real CHENK. Here, as a public service, is your guide to all those hard-to-pronounce names from yesterday's NBA draft:
- CENK AKYOL (CHENK AK-e-ol) Atlanta Hawks
- MARTYNAS ANDRIUSKEVICIUS (mar-TEE-nas on-droosh-KE-vee-choos) Cleveland Cavaliers
- IKE DIOGU (Dee-o-goo) Golden State Warriors
- MICKAEL GELABALE (JELL-a-bal) Seattle SuperSonics
- MARCIN GORTAT (MAR-chin GOR-tot) Orlando Magic
- MILE ILIC (MEE-lay EEL-ich) New Jersey Nets
- ERSAN ILYASOVA (ER-san eel-ya-SO-va) Milwaukee Bucks
- LINAS KLEIZA (LEE-nas KLAY-za) Denver Nuggets (I dare you not to say LIE-nus like the Peanuts character.)
- YAROSLAV KOROLEV (YAR-a-slav CORE-ro-lev) Los Angeles Clippers
- ERAZEM LORBEK (e-RA-zum LOR-bek) Indiana Pacers
- IAN MAHINMI (YAN MY-ee-me) San Antonio Spurs
- JOHAN PETRO (JOE-han PET-tro) Seattle SuperSonics
- UROS SLOKAR (OO-rosh SLOW-car) Toronto Raptors (Well, guess his nickname's all sewed up.)
- FRAN VANQUEZ (fran VAS-kez) Orlando Magic (Included because I can't stand the thought anyone would ever think it was VAS-kwez.)
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