The Official 2017 NBA Draft Talk Thread
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Blackrogue
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Completely overrated and doesn't project to be able to defend his position or multiple positions.
Porter Jr. (among others) is a much better prospect and will have a better future in the NBA.
Really? Some people saying he's the best prospect ever,
Complete and utter hyperbole from cacs who are hailing him as their next great white hope.
10 years from now, people will be looking back at next year's class laughing at any idiot who claimed he was the best prospect in 2018, let alone the best NBA prospect ever.
No..Money..Mo..Problems
it is what it is
I always liked his game he's a very skilled player but unless he goes to a stable system and coach I'm afraid he's just gonna be another undersized great college guard that doesn't cut it in the league.
He Who Posts Well
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MARK CUBAN THREATENED TO 'FIRE' STAFFERS IF THEY LEAKED PICK TO WOJNAROWSKI
By Thomas Lott
June 24, 2017 9:27am EDT
Adrian Wojnarowski did a lot of scooping Thursday night at the NBA Draft. He had the Celtics taking Jayson Tatum a full seven minutes before the NBA announced it, Josh Jackson six minutes before it was announced, and De'Aaron Fox even three minutes before Jackson was announced as the fourth pick.
The man has some sources.
Mark Cuban was not going to let those sources get to Adrian Wojnarowski. Period. Not a chance.
And to make sure of that prior to the draft he had a meeting with all of those in the Mavericks draft room. The message was simple. Do not leak anything to anyone. Though he had a more poignant way of saying it.
"The closer it gets to the (No. 9) pick, the more tense it became," Cuban said in a press conference Friday. "I said, 'OK, two things. One, when I'm on the phone, everybody shut up. Two, if this gets to Wojo before our pick, whoever we find out did it is fired.'"
There was one pick in the Top 10 that Wojnarowski did not have on draft night. That pick was the Mavericks. They selected N.C. State's Dennis Smith and Wojo actually had to retweet someone else who found out who the Mavs were picking.
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I wish more team would enact the same policy. Woj is taking all the fun out of the draft
By Thomas Lott
June 24, 2017 9:27am EDT
Adrian Wojnarowski did a lot of scooping Thursday night at the NBA Draft. He had the Celtics taking Jayson Tatum a full seven minutes before the NBA announced it, Josh Jackson six minutes before it was announced, and De'Aaron Fox even three minutes before Jackson was announced as the fourth pick.
The man has some sources.
Mark Cuban was not going to let those sources get to Adrian Wojnarowski. Period. Not a chance.
And to make sure of that prior to the draft he had a meeting with all of those in the Mavericks draft room. The message was simple. Do not leak anything to anyone. Though he had a more poignant way of saying it.
"The closer it gets to the (No. 9) pick, the more tense it became," Cuban said in a press conference Friday. "I said, 'OK, two things. One, when I'm on the phone, everybody shut up. Two, if this gets to Wojo before our pick, whoever we find out did it is fired.'"
There was one pick in the Top 10 that Wojnarowski did not have on draft night. That pick was the Mavericks. They selected N.C. State's Dennis Smith and Wojo actually had to retweet someone else who found out who the Mavs were picking.
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I wish more team would enact the same policy. Woj is taking all the fun out of the draft
MARK CUBAN THREATENED TO 'FIRE' STAFFERS IF THEY LEAKED PICK TO WOJNAROWSKI
By Thomas Lott
June 24, 2017 9:27am EDT
Adrian Wojnarowski did a lot of scooping Thursday night at the NBA Draft. He had the Celtics taking Jayson Tatum a full seven minutes before the NBA announced it, Josh Jackson six minutes before it was announced, and De'Aaron Fox even three minutes before Jackson was announced as the fourth pick.
The man has some sources.
Mark Cuban was not going to let those sources get to Adrian Wojnarowski. Period. Not a chance.
And to make sure of that prior to the draft he had a meeting with all of those in the Mavericks draft room. The message was simple. Do not leak anything to anyone. Though he had a more poignant way of saying it.
"The closer it gets to the (No. 9) pick, the more tense it became," Cuban said in a press conference Friday. "I said, 'OK, two things. One, when I'm on the phone, everybody shut up. Two, if this gets to Wojo before our pick, whoever we find out did it is fired.'"
There was one pick in the Top 10 that Wojnarowski did not have on draft night. That pick was the Mavericks. They selected N.C. State's Dennis Smith and Wojo actually had to retweet someone else who found out who the Mavs were picking.
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I wish more team would enact the same policy. Woj is taking all the fun out of the draft
Woj is going to ESPN, so no more leaking of the draft.
He has great work ethic, I think he'll be fine. At the least he can carve out a sharpshooter role as a 10th man or something.
Philly is the perfect situation for him though, that's for sure.
