ballafromthenorth

Is it for certain that we don't get it? I've been looking on my digital cable schedule and I don't see it.. I'm so pumped for this lottery/draft, so if I have to just watch the results online, so be it.. but it would be great to watch on tv..

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What a great week so far for NBA fans. The week starts off with two game 7's that was thrilling to the end, and it continues with the lottery followed by the drama between two teams led by best friends.

~It's the most, wonderful time of the year~

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neoxsupreme

Hopefully the ping pong balls go the Raptors way. I'm hoping for a top 3 pick. Good thing Bosh got injured @ the end of the season when the season was lost anyways.

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To commemerate today's unveiling of draft positions, I'm going to paint miniature raptor logos on my ping pong balls.

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Slasher

I have a pretty good feeling that we will end up with one of the top three picks. Something about this year, with the new GM and Bosh announcing he wants to stick around, makes you think there's a lot of positive in the air in Raptorland.

clutchmoney

we havn't won the lotto, have we? I think this is the year of the Raptors...finally we get the #1 pick and we take Bargnani.



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HELLO, ANDREA: Word around the league, at least from a couple of front office types and other insiders who were in Detroit for Game 7 of the Piston-Cavaliers series, is that Toronto knows exactly who it wants to draft no matter what happens in the lottery.

Say hello to Andrea Bargnani.

And they are probably going to get that chance. A team or two are worried that Bargnani, who I'm told is enamoured of Colangelo and the Raptors, may put out word that he's quite happy to stay in Europe to dissuade a team or two from drafting him.

After what Orlando went through with Juan Vasquez last year — he said he'd come, they took him, he stayed in Spain — teams might be leery of drafting Europeans in the top half of the lottery.

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good ol' juan vasquez. orlando got cheated. i'm wondering how they felt about fran vazquez. that might be a touchy subject, too.

but hopefully bargnani can cuddle up snugly beside cory bosch and charlie venezuela.

doug smith is in the know, y'all. his basketball knowledge is second to none.

peace

TRON

we won the lotto that would have gotten us Allen Iverson, but had to pick second because of the expansion agreement we signed to get the team to Toronto, and forever changing the course of history in Toronto

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shookem

I think they meant Juan Veldez.



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shookem

Not really, Zeke would've taken Camby with the first or as he did, second pick.

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aizn

who are the best friends?!?! wallace and shaq?

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actually, tron is (more) right. isiah had iverson at the top of his draft board (according to most published/unpublished reports) and marcus was apparently plan B.

i didn't want iverson at the time myself, i was really worried about a damon/ai backcourt, so i was somewhat relieved when we had to 'settle' for marcus. but the stories are well-printed: isiah wanted allen. i'm not sure what that would've meant to damon's tenure in toronto, i'd assume he would've been traded, but thomas was pretty firm on the subject 10 years ago: he thought it would work, he got almost giddy about its potential in several interviews (as i recall).

i'm glad they've since changed up the expansion rules, though. we faced the toughest expansion guidelines this league has ever seen (imo). i don't fail to consider that vancouver may have directly/indirectly lost their team due to the restrictions. i think stern's office knows it, too. at least they've since corrected the mistake.

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no_free_baskets

zeke would have taken iverson...ai was easily regarded as the top prospect in that stocked draft...u could tell he was gonna be a completely dominating player in the league even just coming out of college.. it really wasnt hard to see...

actually camby i dont think was even a clear choice at 2..there was a lot of discussion at the time n after the draft that isiah wavered btwn sar and camby quite a bit...

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