Draft night scene at the Garden

Thanks be to free nights and weekends. Because when Rudy Gay checked his phone, he already had 17 messages and 21 missed calls.

Not that he or any of his draft counterparts can't afford a hefty phone bill nowadays. But still, the number and frequency of the calls and text messages they were receiving was, well, off the hook. Catch one of the draftees during a free moment and he was flipping open his phone or typing like mad on his keypad, even during off-camera interviews.

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