The Pac-10 tournament: Heaven for NBA scouts (and agents)
For the quantity and quality of the NBA prospects on display, there has never been a Pac-10 tournament like this.
And my guess is there haven’t been many ACC, Big East or Big Ten tournaments like what we’re seeing in Staples Center.
The Pac-10 is packed with draft picks: 22-24 of them, by my count — although not all will be first rounders and not all are coming out this spring.
The record for first-rounders by one conference in one draft is eight, by the ACC. The Pac-10 could very well equal or surpass that total and will certainly shatter its own record for first rounders (five).
More than 40 scouts are expected to watch the action, and you know prospective agents will be, well, lurking. (OK, not all of them lurk. Bill Duffy: not a lurker. But some do because they have to.)
Anyhow, here’s a rundown of the future draft picks (in rough order of projected selection):
***Lottery Picks (this year or next)
Brook Lopez, Stanford: Expected to leave school and should be the first big man selected not from Kansas State.
Jerryd Bayless, Arizona: Expected to leave school and should go in the top five. A combo guard who can score against anyone, from anywhere.
Tags: lottery, oregon
March 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
Rich people go to Vegas to do their gambling, where the “house” edge is one order of magnitude slimmer than the lottery.
March 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Is it me, or did that article repeat itself over and over again? I reckon they could have fit all that content into a couple of paragraphs…
March 16th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
Give the money to the poor. You can get a buzz from being nice.
March 16th, 2008 at 4:51 pm
I think a brilliant idea. The only downside is that they didn’t take it far enough. The next logical step would be emergency response.”911 Emergency, before continuing, please pick a number from 0-9. If you pick the wrong one, we will block your phone number permanently”
March 16th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
I could understand spending $1 on a lottery ticket because hell, there’s hardly anything $1 will buy except false hope.But $50?? For $50 in a poor neighborhood, you can get a hooker to do damn near anything! And at least you know you’ll come away with something to show for it!
March 16th, 2008 at 6:33 pm
LOL. Right. Only Americans like “get rich quick” schemes…
March 16th, 2008 at 7:23 pm
you should read about how much money schools have actually been getting before you decide to throw away your money on state sponsored gambling with horrible odds. also: every scratch off has the odds on the back and the cashier is required to read it to you before you buy it if you ask. do that before you buy one.