Live @ NBA Draft ’09: Picks 21-25
BJ Mullens (Ohio State)
BURTON: Again catering to the Knicks fans, ESPN interviews Larry Brown on the big screen so New York can shower him with boos. Brown talks about Gerald Henderson being a solid player “and he has good genes.” I always wondered if NBA teams actually considered that stuff — maybe they do. So maybe Jeff Jordan would have gotten drafted in 2011 after all.
The Hornets take Darren Collison 21st, who’s in the crowd and comes down to shake Stern’s hand. New Orleans needed some depth behind Chris Paul, and they got the most experienced PG on the board; not a bad pick at all even if Collison has some flaws and is small. Darren actually looks like Jrue Holiday’s smaller, older brother. Dave Chappelle as Rick James would have a field day with those two, that’s all I’m gonna say…
KATZ: Knicks fans are waiting for the other shoe to drop. The second most reliable source in the game today behind Kevin Love might be Yahoo! Sports’ Adrian Wojnarowski. He’s reporting that the Knicks are aggressively going after Ricky Rubio. It doesn’t specify who the Knicks would give up, but we’d imagine that Hill and Nate Robinson would both be involved. Maybe New York will even pick for Minnesota at No. 29. That way they’d be able to take two more points guards back-to-back for a second time tonight.
“One league GM said a deal ‘isn’t 100 percent,’ but likely,” wrote Wojnarowski.
BURTON: Shaq is interviewed over the phone. He starts off by offering condolences to the Jackson family, and I’d bet Shaq is the only active NBA player who’s actually ever met Michael Jackson. Shaq says he’d be willing to come off the bench, but nobody really believes that.
The Blazers took … some European dude 22nd … and the Kings took Omri Casspi 23rd. All I know about Casspi is that he can shoot, and his highlight video didn’t change that.
KATZ: The Garden went from being cheerful, chanting “JVG!” in unison, to angry, loud and drunk. For absolutely no reason, they just booed the daylights out of B.J. Mullens going to Dallas. That has absolutely no impact on anyone’s life. But it’s the thing to do at No. 24.
David Stern might as well have put three marbles in his mouth and tried to talk instead of announcing Rodrigue Beaubois.
The Mavericks, Thunder and Ric Bucher are all in kahootz. Though Dalls could have picked Beaubois, leaving Mullens for the Thunder, they did it in the opposite order and then traded their picks so that Bucher would have a reason to do another live-shot.
BURTON: Beaubois looks like he’s 14 years old. He makes Chris Quinn look like Clint Eastwood.
Mullens is a steal at 24 for Dallas. Yeah, he’s young and inexperienced, but a lot of that was Thad Matta really dicking him on PT this year, which I honestly think was Matta’s effort to keep Mullens in school for another year. Mullens has the size and skills to be a Lottery pick. Offensively, he’s everything Erick Dampier isn’t.
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June 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
ProphetGK says:
what happened 2 Lawson??
June 25th, 2009 at 9:34 pm
AZ says:
minn woulda drafted jordan
June 25th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
goonther says:
traded to denver for future pick
June 25th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
ShowKase says:
Lmao @ the Collison and Holiday comparison to the Murphy brothers
June 25th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
AZ says:
patty mills to minn…..
June 25th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
sh!tfaced says:
lawson went to denver
June 25th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
ProphetGK says:
must suck to have MJ as your dad and even try to play bball…
June 25th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
CP3DaMan says:
Darren Collison is poo.. I wish the damn jazz wouldnt have picked Eric Maynor so the Hornets coulda got him…
June 25th, 2009 at 9:37 pm
sh!tfaced says:
dejuan blair and bj mullens are falling…
June 25th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
goonther says:
so much for the cavs wanting to move “significantly” up in the draft
June 25th, 2009 at 9:38 pm
POPPI GEE says:
Portland needs to go Blair or pg cause I don’t see Blake carrying them where they need to be.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:39 pm
POPPI GEE says:
Dime on Tweeter says Rubio to the Knicks!
June 25th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
ShowKase says:
Apparently these analyst only read the stuff ESPN gives them. They just called B.Roy and LA “underrated”? We all know about them.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:40 pm
ProphetGK says:
better be good, my blazers be champions in a few
June 25th, 2009 at 9:43 pm
ProphetGK says:
imagine the photo poses with shaq on the cavs?
June 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Spliff 2 My Lou says:
The blazers could’ve had that claver guy later. They should’ve chosen somebody who could help them now. They are close to being a legit contender. That picks not gonna help anytime soon.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
goonther says:
rubio to knicks?!?! crazy night
June 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
POPPI GEE says:
Be fun to see Rubio in NY but who they giving up and I would have still like to see Curry or Henderson as a Knick.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:44 pm
Brown says:
Never heard of Victor Claver….
June 25th, 2009 at 9:47 pm
POPPI GEE says:
Dallas really should get Blair. I wonder why dude has dropped so low….or is it really a drop?
June 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
Mr. bball says:
they say blairs knees
June 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm
sh!tfaced says:
blair was projected at the teens in most mock drafts
June 25th, 2009 at 9:50 pm
POPPI GEE says:
Nice move by Dallas.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:53 pm
ProphetGK says:
lmfao, who is this guy and how do u say his name
June 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
ProphetGK says:
ohhhhhh trade
June 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
sh!tfaced says:
BOOB-WAH. LOL
June 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
the cynic says:
somebody do themselves a favor and pick Patty Mills
June 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
ShowKase says:
This is the BEST part of the draft! When teams start picking players who we will never see. Its like picking a ghost man, when you’re a little kid and you dont have enough players to play a real game. lol
June 25th, 2009 at 9:55 pm
qwerty says:
steal by dallas
June 25th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
Brown says:
Blair would have looked nice in OKC.
June 25th, 2009 at 9:56 pm
chiaki says:
ugly move by dallas for trading mullens to OKC
June 25th, 2009 at 9:59 pm
ProphetGK says:
why are there mock drafts if the draft is gonna be nothing like it? oh thats a good pick for the bullls
June 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
A$$Cube aka Told ya! says:
I told ya! I told ya! I told ya that Beaubois would be selected as a late first rounder, Austin
Sam Presti just made another smart move. Too bad they’re not in Seattle anymore. I can’t like them too much then…
June 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
superfreak says:
darkness is spreadin!
June 25th, 2009 at 10:01 pm
SoulOnIce says:
Why the hell hasn’t Sam Young been drafted yet???
June 25th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
goonther says:
so sports pundits have a job and people like us get fired from ours for studying mock drafts on company time
June 25th, 2009 at 10:07 pm
ProphetGK says:
theres a new junkyard dog in the house
June 25th, 2009 at 10:11 pm
ProphetGK says:
OOOOHHH minnnis gunnna be stackeddddddddddddddd
June 26th, 2009 at 5:34 am
solomon (el latino machismo) says:
he makes chris quinn look like clint eastwood ROFLMFAO