The Lottery
The Draft BoardI went to one of the most unique and bad-ass hoop party/event/gallery opening last night. Check out the premise:
Our boy Chris Isenberg from No Mas (dope clothing line) did crazy digital renderings of headshots of every NBA lottery pick from 1985 to 1995. The headshots were all from the year they were drafted and mounted on canvas for last night’s “lottery.” Sponsored by Puma (No Mas has an exclusive shoe coming out with Puma later this year), the
gallery was set up to look like the NBA Draft. Everyone at the party got a scratch
card – some 500 were distributed – in hopes of being one of the of the 105 picks available (some people, like me, got two cards). They then had a David Stern-looking dude (seriously) and a ping-pong ball machine (again, I’m serious) and they had a draft lottery. I got the 18th pick with one card and the 76th pick with my other card. With my two picks I got to draft two of the players and actually take home the art pieces. We’ll hook you up with the whole draft later today, but from memory, I believe Patrick Ewing went 1st overall, Len Bias (RIP) went 2nd, Shaq 3rd, KG 4th, Chris Mullin 5th, Luc Longley 6th, and Penny Hardaway 7th.
Why did Longley go so high? His picture was amazing, flowing mullet and all.
With the 18th pick I was deciding between the X-Man or Glenn Rice, who’s art piece was one
of the cooler ones available. After consulting with Chris (who suggested I either go Rice or go nuts and draft Tim Perry), I brought home Rice. With the 76th pick and a lot of good players on the board, I fought the urge to draft The Rifleman, Chuck Person, and instead hooked up Pat (our Editorial Director) with Bobby Hurley, who I know he has a strange white-boy obession with. Josh with a mid 40′s pick took home Mitch “Rock” Richmond. Our other boy had a pick in the 60′s and took Big Dogg Glenn Robinson, for the sole reason that he has a friend in Milwaukee who hates Dogg and he figured this would be good torture material. He also had to work out a trade for Big Dogg with some other guy. The trade somehow involved Armon Gilliam.
Besides the amazing fact that we actually got to take home the art pieces, it was also a party, with a DJ, and open bar.
Big thanks to Chris, No Mas, and Puma for the great night.
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June 28th, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Bust Jlaze says:
That sounds like a great time…who comes up with those dope ideas? I gotta have a party like that yo
June 28th, 2007 at 1:52 pm
Eric says:
That sounds like it was awesome.
Tough call between Rice and X Man. And passing on the Riffleman to hook it for Cass, wow, very team oriented on your end. But that is what you do.
Will the Green get lucky tonight?
Love the draft/Hate the draft
June 28th, 2007 at 3:52 pm
TheJed says:
The Green get lucky if we deal the pick. I don’t think we can come out of tonight as a clear big winner unless we end with JO, KG, or Ray…. and we still have big Al.
June 28th, 2007 at 4:33 pm
Kope says:
Green will screw this up. no doubt about it. They would have screwed up last night too. Would have taken ewing over bias cause ainge wouldn’t realize they were just photos.
That’s why knick’s fans have it good tonight. even when Zeke blows the pick, at least it isn’t a lottery pick and won’t sting AS bad.
June 28th, 2007 at 8:34 pm
Bust Jlaze says:
I’m just lookin’ for someone to say something about this…I might even bring it up again tomorrow, but I just read this on ESPN.com: (a quote from Mike Kupchak)
“We could stick with the group as it is today or we can look to be aggressive and try to get to that next level. Either way, we think we’ll be a talented team next year.”
You mean to tell me EVEN NOW, he’s STILL not sure he wants to get to “that next level”??? No WONDER Kobe is so frustrated! “Are you kidding me?!”