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Okay enough of that! Now let's back to the major sports in the United States.




The NBA Draft is finally upon us. Yet I cannot help but NOT feel excited about this draft. There is really no reason to watch unless your team has a pick in the top ten. If you do end up watching this thing on the four letter sports network tomorrow night than kudos to you (starts at 7ET). It won't take long since there are only two rounds now unlike the wasted days of NFL Draft coverage that is almost as bad as Super Bowl pregame shows.

The draft order for the top ten are as follows just in case you don't know or don't care.

1. Washington Wizards
2. Philadelphia 76ers
3. New Jersey Nets
4. Minnesota Timberwolves
5. Sacramento Kings
6. Golden State Warriors
7. Detroit Pistons
8. Los Angeles Clippers
9. Utah Jazz (From New York via Phoenix)
10. Indiana Pacers

The Wizards pick first and as you can see they haven't had the best track record. Do you recognize any of these names? Well neither did I for the most part, but with no picks in 2009 and 2005 no wonder they have struggled. Even if you get a guy that the fans don't necessarily know about that doesn't mean he is a bust. Look at Devin Harris, pretty good numbers in Dallas and New Jersey. If it weren't for the fact he plays in New Jersey now we might actually be talking about him more.

2008		JaVale McGee
2007		Nick Young
2006		Oleksiy Pecherov
2004		Devin Harris
2003		Jarvis Hayes
2002		Juan Dixon
2002		Jared Jeffries
2001		Kwame Brown

The Philadelphia 76ers haven't had this high of a pick since 1997 and number one since 1997. Some guy named Allen Iverson who took more shots and missed than the cops who probably chased him as a kid. Realistically the only upside I can think of is that since Larry Brown they will finally have a legitimate coach who is not only a favorite amongst the 76er organization in Doug Collins, but Andre Iguodala when healthy along with teammate Elton Brand would be a good fit with Evan Turner from Ohio State if Philadelphia goes that route.

2008		Marreese Speights
2007		Daequan Cook
2007		Petteri Koponen
2007		Thaddeus Young
2006		Thabo Sefolosha
2004		Andre Iguodala
2002		John Salmons
2001		Samuel Dalembert
2000		Speedy Claxton
1998		Larry Hughes
1997		Keith Van Horn
1996		Allen Iverson

The Nets of course are still banking on Lebron so I don't really have much to say on them except they have been bad. So bad that I think that if you took the best of all the colleges in the area they could probably beat the Nets also. First time in 10 years that they have had a top five pick.

2008		Ryan Anderson
2008		Brook Lopez
2007		Sean Williams
2006		Marcus Williams
2006		Josh Boone
2005		Antoine Wright
2004		Viktor Khryapa
2003		Zoran Planinic
2002		Nenad Krstic
2001		Eddie Griffin
2000		Kenyon Martin

The rest I'll let you intelligent people figure out on your own. For those of you living in the Utah area and really want to know about what the Jazz are going to do they are picking ninth. More than likely I see them going with something they don't really need such as another small forward or a guard. Maybe they'll get lucky and draft Greg Monroe or Ed Davis. Both of those players would go well with Paul Millsap if he ends up being the starter. Even more of an issue is trying to bring back Carlos Boozer, Kyle Korver, and possibly bring back Fesenko. If they can't or won't resign Boozer than big man is where they need to go in the draft. We'll see tomorrow if they actually will.

On a lighter note here's Aiden playing with a light sabre.