With three 2nd round picks all within nine slots of each other, the chance that Joe goes with a couple foreigners we don’t know really anything about is, what, 50%? 75? 90? Personally, it would be a little anti-climatic if that is Joe’s desired route, but then again, stashing foreign talent overseas for a few [...]

     
With the NBA draft almost a month away I figure I’ll start my own coverage of it by looking at all of Joe D’s drafts.
You can’t get this kind of coverage anywhere else people.
2000
1st, 14th- Mateen Cleaves
2nd, 44th- Brian Cardinal
Cardinal turned out to have a better career than about half the players drafted in the first round, including Cleaves, sadly.
2001
1st, [...]

No player’s game to game performance and attitude have ever elicited so many different emotions from me as Rasheed Wallace’s have. Being a level headed fan of many sports, I’ve come to grasp the concept of letting things—as in player/team performance, attitude, instinct—run their course, so to say. I have vehemently vowed to never become [...]

Nuggets 1 Lakers 1.
I’m a happy camper folks.
Head on over to this link and behold Chauncey’s naughtiness.
Then follow the directions for optimal naughtiness.

If Richard Hamilton is traded, I will understand the reasoning. With the good days of contending all but over, the direction of the team I would hope would be headed towards youth and freeing/avoiding hefty contracts. In three, four, even five years from now when Detroit could be back in the upper echelon of the East, [...]