Looking back historically, in every draft, there have been tremendous whiffs and there have been tremendous steals. Thanks to varying degrees of extensive scouting and GM adeptness, high picks have sometimes yielded stiffs where lower picks found All Stars. In light of this, I have decided to give grades on all of the first round picks.
Click the Jump to see if your team stole a Kobe Bryant or was left with a Kwame Brown
After this year’s Draft Lottery, all Charlotte Bobcat fans worldwide, all ten of them, hung their head in collective disappointment. Bobcats GM Rich Cho embarked on one of the most ambitious tanking jobs ever, en route to a 7-59 record and the worst winning percentage in NBA history. But all of the Bobcats efforts to get the number one overall pick and draft franchise player Anthony Davis were in vain, as the New Orleans Hornets jumped five spots to get the first pick and the Unibrowed Wonder Kid. Although this draft lottery was devastating to Bobcat fans, it allows the rest of us to get a better picture of how the draft will play out based on individual team needs.
Click the Jump for the mock draft.
Early in the first quarter of Game 2 in the BOS-ATL matchup, Josh Smith tried to do a little showboating with this two hand reverse cradle. Needless to say, the results were a little less than satisfactory, as J-Smoove failed to even hit the rim on this one… In a playoff game that was decided only by 7 points, a breakaway dunk could have been shifted the momentum early on and ignited the Hawks to an early lead. Instead, it turned into this laughingstock of a play.
This fail almost makes me feel nostalgic, as I remember that Smith has a penchant for trying to be a little too fancy with the most inopportune timing. Let this video clip take you back three years ago, when Smith tries to go between-the-legs Vinsanity style. The only catch was that this was in Game 5 of a playoff series against the Miami Heat.
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