Dream Team Draft - rankings due Sunday night
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vikinginferno
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Hey, about after the draft, do we already know who we are playing against in the first round? Is it 1v16, 2v15, and so on?
Kings Faithful
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I believe each draft participant sends a list of our personal "1-15" and the commissioner then finds the seeding that way. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
vikinginferno
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AleksandarN
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Ok I am now shifting my focus to my head coach.
This was a real tough choice but I am going to pick.
Jerry Sloan
This was a real tough choice but I am going to pick.
Jerry Sloan
Dime Dropper
All-Star
I like the Petrovic pick. I was considering him.
I'm getting really nervous now, ten picks before I'm up again and I'm hoping my guy will still be there. He is exactly what I need.
I'm getting really nervous now, ten picks before I'm up again and I'm hoping my guy will still be there. He is exactly what I need.
GeraldWallace#3
Bench
Ron Artest
Maybe a nuthead but you gotta love the guy's heart tenasity and love for the game. He is the guy you can count on to gaurd your best player and shut them down, he is the guy you can count on to intimidate the next team. He is the guy who can count on to play any position on the floor. And plus with Phil Jackson his attitude is sure to straighten up.
Best Year:
3.1 AST/ 2.1 SPG/ 0.9 BPG/ 24.6 PPG
2004 Defensive Player of the Year
2004 All Star
changed my pick didnt think anyone saw though.
When you're talking head coaches, there is no way you do not start off with this guy as the greatest ever... So, since my collection of players is going to need the wisdom of the ages, I'm picking...
Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach, President
Just prior to the beginning of the 2006-07 season, Arnold 'Red' Auerbach passed away in his hometown of Washington, DC on October 28, 2006. He was 89 years old.
Red had been a part of the Celtics family for 57 years and he had been a part of the National Basketball Association for 60 years, never missing the opening of a season. The Boston Celtics organization has dedicated the 2006-07 season in his memory.
Auerbach spent the first three seasons of his pro career with the Washington Capitols before moving on to the Tri-Cities Hawks for one campaign. At this point, Walter Brown, who owned the struggling Boston Celtics, appointed Auerbach as the man to lead the squad into what would ultimately become the greatest franchise in pro basketball annals.
Auerbach carefully crafted a competitive team, and his moves culminated with an April 29, 1956 transaction that sent Ed Macauley and Cliff Hagan to St. Louis for the Hawks' first-round pick; with that selection, the Celtics chose Bill Russell. This blockbuster trade would spur the Celtics into the most dominant franchise in pro basketball history and helped spawn the legend that is Auerbach and the Celtics. From 1950-1966, Auerbach coached the Celtics to nine world titles, including eight in succession from 1959-1966. His incredible record was 938-479 (.662) in regular-season play and an equally impressive 99-69 (.589) in post-season encounters. Prior to the 1966-67 season, the "coach" removed himself from the bench in order to concentrate on his duties as General Manager, and appointed Bill Russell as player-coach.
With Red's guidance and knowledge, the Celtics continued to win. In 1968 and 1969, the Celtics added two more titles. After a down period in the early 1970s, Auerbach restructured the team, adding key personnel through trades and the draft, and ultimately raised banners in 1974 and 1976. It was the subsequent years that would provide Auerbach with his biggest challenge, as the late '70s proved to be a dismal period for the Celtics. Yet Auerbach once again saved the franchise with the shrewd selection of Larry Bird in the 1978 draft. Although he would have to wait a year before Bird could play in the NBA, Auerbach sensed that the Indiana native was the man to rejuvenate the proud organization. Five other teams had a shot at Bird, but all passed.
In 1981, Boston became the NBA champions again as Auerbach orchestrated another amazing trade, this time dealing the first and 13th picks in the 1981 draft to Golden State for Robert Parish and the third overall pick (Kevin McHale). Boston added two more titles in 1984 and 1986 thanks to the master's keen additions of Bill Walton and others.
Auerbach had been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards and honors throughout his career. In 1968, he was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA for all his successes. When the NBA chose its Silver Anniversary Team honoring the best of the league's first 25 years, Red was chosen as coach of that distinguished team. In 1982, he was elected to the Washington Hall of Stars, a Hall of Fame which involves people from all sports. Red was also honored as NBA Coach of the Year in 1965, winning the trophy that now bears his name, and NBA Executive of the Year in 1980. Also in that year, he was selected to the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team as "Greatest Coach in the History of the NBA," by the PBWAA.
In 1985, the Red Auerbach Fund, established in the great coach's name, was created to promote athletic, recreational, and other youth development activities in Boston and throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. January 4, 1985 will always be a special day in Red's heart and in Boston sports history, as it was on this day that the Celtics family saluted its patriarch by having the number "2" retired in his honor (emblematic as the second most influential person in the organization's annals; similarly, the number "1" is dedicated to the team's founder, Walter Brown). On Red's 68th birthday, September 20, 1985, a life-size sculpture of Auerbach was unveiled and placed in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace so the public would have a lasting tribute to this basketball genius and legend.
He had received seven honorary degrees from various institutions. Red valued such honors so much that he kept a previous commitment to American International College by delivering its commencement speech on May 22, 1988, even though it prevented him from being at Boston Garden for the deciding game of the Celtics-Hawks' best-of-seven thriller. On that day, AIC presented Auerbach with a Doctor of Humanities Honorary Degree. A week earlier he had received a Doctor of Arts Honorary Degree from Stonehill College. He has also received Honorary Doctorate Degrees in Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce College, on May 24, 1981, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), in 1982, and from Boston University, on May 13, 1984. In 1986, Central New England College honored him with an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration. On February 14, 1993, his alma mater, George Washington, bestowed an honorary Doctorate of Public Service Degree, and on June 9, 1998, the university celebrated Red's 80th birthday by unveiling a plaque and a bust of the legendary coach. This tribute is permanently attached to the exterior of the Smith Center, GW's athletic facility.
Red was the author of seven books. His first, Basketball for the Player, the Fan and Coach, has been translated into seven languages and is the largest-selling basketball book in print. His second book, co-authored with Paul Sann, was Winning the Hard Way, and he also penned a pair of publications written in conjunction with Joe Fitzgerald: Red Auerbach: An Autobiography and Red Auerbach On and Off the Court. In October, 1991, M.B.A.: Management by Auerbach, was co-authored with Ken Dooley. In 1994, Seeing Red was written with Dan Shaughnessy. In October 2004, his latest book, Let Me Tell You A Story, was co-authored with legendary sports journalist John Feinstein. In 1987, an excellent instructional video entitled Winning Basketball became available to the public featuring the insight, thoughts, and philosophy of Red and three-time NBA Most Valuable Player and Celtics' captain Larry Bird. In 2005, he was recognized as an Honorary Master Chef at the the U.S. Coast Guard.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Red attended Eastern District High School in that city, attended Seth Low Junior College in New York, and George Washington University in the District of Columbia. He played three years of college basketball at GW, and was the team's leading scorer and a defensive specialist. He received a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1940 and a Master of Arts in Education from GW the following year.
Red (September 20, 1917 - October 28, 2006) and his late wife, Dorothy, were married in 1941 and survived by two daughters: Nancy, who is married to former CNN anchorman Reid Collins, and Randy, who is Vice-President of Creative Affairs for Blue Tulip Productions in Hollywood. Red is also survived by one granddaughter, Julie, a housewife and student at GW, who is married to Eric Fleiger. He also was survived by his great-grandson, Peter Auerbach Fleiger, and two great-granddaughters, Hope and Noelle Fleiger.
http://www.nba.com/celtics/history/Red_Auerbach.html
Red Auerbach
Red Auerbach, President
Just prior to the beginning of the 2006-07 season, Arnold 'Red' Auerbach passed away in his hometown of Washington, DC on October 28, 2006. He was 89 years old.
Red had been a part of the Celtics family for 57 years and he had been a part of the National Basketball Association for 60 years, never missing the opening of a season. The Boston Celtics organization has dedicated the 2006-07 season in his memory.
Auerbach spent the first three seasons of his pro career with the Washington Capitols before moving on to the Tri-Cities Hawks for one campaign. At this point, Walter Brown, who owned the struggling Boston Celtics, appointed Auerbach as the man to lead the squad into what would ultimately become the greatest franchise in pro basketball annals.
Auerbach carefully crafted a competitive team, and his moves culminated with an April 29, 1956 transaction that sent Ed Macauley and Cliff Hagan to St. Louis for the Hawks' first-round pick; with that selection, the Celtics chose Bill Russell. This blockbuster trade would spur the Celtics into the most dominant franchise in pro basketball history and helped spawn the legend that is Auerbach and the Celtics. From 1950-1966, Auerbach coached the Celtics to nine world titles, including eight in succession from 1959-1966. His incredible record was 938-479 (.662) in regular-season play and an equally impressive 99-69 (.589) in post-season encounters. Prior to the 1966-67 season, the "coach" removed himself from the bench in order to concentrate on his duties as General Manager, and appointed Bill Russell as player-coach.
With Red's guidance and knowledge, the Celtics continued to win. In 1968 and 1969, the Celtics added two more titles. After a down period in the early 1970s, Auerbach restructured the team, adding key personnel through trades and the draft, and ultimately raised banners in 1974 and 1976. It was the subsequent years that would provide Auerbach with his biggest challenge, as the late '70s proved to be a dismal period for the Celtics. Yet Auerbach once again saved the franchise with the shrewd selection of Larry Bird in the 1978 draft. Although he would have to wait a year before Bird could play in the NBA, Auerbach sensed that the Indiana native was the man to rejuvenate the proud organization. Five other teams had a shot at Bird, but all passed.
In 1981, Boston became the NBA champions again as Auerbach orchestrated another amazing trade, this time dealing the first and 13th picks in the 1981 draft to Golden State for Robert Parish and the third overall pick (Kevin McHale). Boston added two more titles in 1984 and 1986 thanks to the master's keen additions of Bill Walton and others.
Auerbach had been the recipient of numerous distinguished awards and honors throughout his career. In 1968, he was enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, MA for all his successes. When the NBA chose its Silver Anniversary Team honoring the best of the league's first 25 years, Red was chosen as coach of that distinguished team. In 1982, he was elected to the Washington Hall of Stars, a Hall of Fame which involves people from all sports. Red was also honored as NBA Coach of the Year in 1965, winning the trophy that now bears his name, and NBA Executive of the Year in 1980. Also in that year, he was selected to the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team as "Greatest Coach in the History of the NBA," by the PBWAA.
In 1985, the Red Auerbach Fund, established in the great coach's name, was created to promote athletic, recreational, and other youth development activities in Boston and throughout the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. January 4, 1985 will always be a special day in Red's heart and in Boston sports history, as it was on this day that the Celtics family saluted its patriarch by having the number "2" retired in his honor (emblematic as the second most influential person in the organization's annals; similarly, the number "1" is dedicated to the team's founder, Walter Brown). On Red's 68th birthday, September 20, 1985, a life-size sculpture of Auerbach was unveiled and placed in Boston's historic Faneuil Hall Marketplace so the public would have a lasting tribute to this basketball genius and legend.
He had received seven honorary degrees from various institutions. Red valued such honors so much that he kept a previous commitment to American International College by delivering its commencement speech on May 22, 1988, even though it prevented him from being at Boston Garden for the deciding game of the Celtics-Hawks' best-of-seven thriller. On that day, AIC presented Auerbach with a Doctor of Humanities Honorary Degree. A week earlier he had received a Doctor of Arts Honorary Degree from Stonehill College. He has also received Honorary Doctorate Degrees in Humane Letters from Franklin Pierce College, on May 24, 1981, the University of Massachusetts (Boston), in 1982, and from Boston University, on May 13, 1984. In 1986, Central New England College honored him with an Honorary Doctorate Degree in Business Administration. On February 14, 1993, his alma mater, George Washington, bestowed an honorary Doctorate of Public Service Degree, and on June 9, 1998, the university celebrated Red's 80th birthday by unveiling a plaque and a bust of the legendary coach. This tribute is permanently attached to the exterior of the Smith Center, GW's athletic facility.
Red was the author of seven books. His first, Basketball for the Player, the Fan and Coach, has been translated into seven languages and is the largest-selling basketball book in print. His second book, co-authored with Paul Sann, was Winning the Hard Way, and he also penned a pair of publications written in conjunction with Joe Fitzgerald: Red Auerbach: An Autobiography and Red Auerbach On and Off the Court. In October, 1991, M.B.A.: Management by Auerbach, was co-authored with Ken Dooley. In 1994, Seeing Red was written with Dan Shaughnessy. In October 2004, his latest book, Let Me Tell You A Story, was co-authored with legendary sports journalist John Feinstein. In 1987, an excellent instructional video entitled Winning Basketball became available to the public featuring the insight, thoughts, and philosophy of Red and three-time NBA Most Valuable Player and Celtics' captain Larry Bird. In 2005, he was recognized as an Honorary Master Chef at the the U.S. Coast Guard.
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Red attended Eastern District High School in that city, attended Seth Low Junior College in New York, and George Washington University in the District of Columbia. He played three years of college basketball at GW, and was the team's leading scorer and a defensive specialist. He received a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1940 and a Master of Arts in Education from GW the following year.
Red (September 20, 1917 - October 28, 2006) and his late wife, Dorothy, were married in 1941 and survived by two daughters: Nancy, who is married to former CNN anchorman Reid Collins, and Randy, who is Vice-President of Creative Affairs for Blue Tulip Productions in Hollywood. Red is also survived by one granddaughter, Julie, a housewife and student at GW, who is married to Eric Fleiger. He also was survived by his great-grandson, Peter Auerbach Fleiger, and two great-granddaughters, Hope and Noelle Fleiger.
http://www.nba.com/celtics/history/Red_Auerbach.html
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Jespher
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LoungeLizard
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Robert Parish C
I think your team is looking pretty good when you've got "The Chief", one of the immortal original "Big Three", as a role player. Parish will do all of the little things, rebound, defend, screen and most importantly keep the opposing teams big man out of the lane by consistently knocking down the midrange jumper by launching his high arching, roof scraping, jump shot.
A few of the "Chief's" many accolades:
Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2003)
NBA champion (1981, '84, '86, '97)
All-NBA Second Team (1982)
All-NBA Third Team (1989)
Nine-time All-Star
One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996).
I think your team is looking pretty good when you've got "The Chief", one of the immortal original "Big Three", as a role player. Parish will do all of the little things, rebound, defend, screen and most importantly keep the opposing teams big man out of the lane by consistently knocking down the midrange jumper by launching his high arching, roof scraping, jump shot.
A few of the "Chief's" many accolades:
Elected to Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (2003)
NBA champion (1981, '84, '86, '97)
All-NBA Second Team (1982)
All-NBA Third Team (1989)
Nine-time All-Star
One of 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996).
Kings Faithful
Starter
Perhaps the greatest coach of all time... my next pick is Red Auerbach!
Kings Faithful
Starter
Dang it VF! Sans that last pick.....
Kings Faithful
Starter
For my 2nd attempt at my next pick I choose head coach Kenny Natt!
Na...I'm just jokin. My real pick is Pat Riley!
Na...I'm just jokin. My real pick is Pat Riley!
Kings Faithful
Starter
I'm sorry.
I honestly couldn't believe he was still on the table.
I had a feeling he wouldn't be much longer so I was planning this whole round to take advantage of it...Then you with all your intelligence had to come around and ruin it...THANKS!
vikinginferno
Starter
With my 6th pick, I choose the player we all know and love...
Doug Christie
He's one of my favorite players of all time and he is known for his relentless defense. He will be my first man off the bench, do the dirty work, and also put in some offense. He is the ultimate team player and is loved by his team.
Here he was a perennial NBA all defensive first or second team selection and was recognized as one of the best 3 point shooters. He had superb athleticism and quickness and also great ballhandling and passing skills. His best stats are 17 points per game, 5.5 rebounds, and 5 assists, but those don't show Doug justice as stats were never what mattered for him.
Named to the NBA All-Defensive 1st Team in 2002-03.
Named to the NBA All-Defensive 2nd Team in 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2003-04
Doug Christie
He's one of my favorite players of all time and he is known for his relentless defense. He will be my first man off the bench, do the dirty work, and also put in some offense. He is the ultimate team player and is loved by his team.
Here he was a perennial NBA all defensive first or second team selection and was recognized as one of the best 3 point shooters. He had superb athleticism and quickness and also great ballhandling and passing skills. His best stats are 17 points per game, 5.5 rebounds, and 5 assists, but those don't show Doug justice as stats were never what mattered for him.
Named to the NBA All-Defensive 1st Team in 2002-03.
Named to the NBA All-Defensive 2nd Team in 2000-01, 2001-02 and 2003-04
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Dime Dropper
All-Star
Nice pick. He's a good glue guy, will know his role and play D. I considered him with my last pick, but I just couldn't take him over Maravich. Where'd you get those stats, by the way? Basketball-reference states his best statistical year as a little short of the ones you've posted.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Ah, well that's unfortunate, but helpful too in a way. I had a potential use for Doug, but was worried I was going to have to reach for him given his familiarity in these parts. Suppose I should thank you for relieving me of that pressure.
vikinginferno
Starter
Nice pick. He's a good glue guy, will know his role and play D. I considered him with my last pick, but I just couldn't take him over Maravich. Where'd you get those stats, by the way? Basketball-reference states his best statistical year as a little short of the ones you've posted.
It wasn't all in one year. I meant that those were his best stats for each category. Maybe I should rephrase.
With Doug, it was always about so much more than just the stats. How do you show with mere numbers the heart he showed when he came back into the game after an injury because Peja was injured? How do you even begin to show the emotion he still brings to the court, which was apparent to everyone who saw him at the jersey retirement ceremonies?
I applaud your pick. He is the true definition of a "glue guy" and he brings a lot of character to your squad.
Dime Dropper
All-Star
Looks like there's a run on coaches at the minute. Also looks like the draft is starting to speed up, too, just as night sets in here. Looks like it will be the middle of the night by the time my pick comes around, and my guy may just get stolen from me because of it 
The idea that someone could have their pick stolen by someone further down the list occurred to me, too. I don't like the idea of two people being on the clock at this point as I think it's going to get rather dicey. In all fairness, Red Auerbach shouldn't even have been available for me because KingsFaithful would have taken him. I'm not willing to give him up at this point, mind you, but I think the group might want to discuss shifting to a one-person-on-the-clock at the start of the next round. That way someone like DimeDropper won't be penalized for living on the wrong side of the earth.
Dime Dropper
All-Star
If it suits you, I can PM you my guy and you can pick him for me when I'm on the clock providing he's still available. You're right that the two-on-the-clock rule has some disadvantages, but it does help keep the draft at a nice pace. If you don't mind making my pick for me, I'll send you a PM with his name and a link to his picture. I can fill in the rest when I come online tomorrow. How does that sound?
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
The double picks have actually worked pretty well, occasional confusion aside. Precisely because its cut out the big lulls, this draft has been rumbling right along. And really DD, or anybody for that matter, has the same chance to be benefitted byt he format as hurt by it. There will be times when he is the only one around and avalilable to make a pick. If its just a question of single player/coach he could just send a PM to anybody behind the current queue (i.e. anybody who won't pick before he is scheduled to) with hsi next choice.
Dime Dropper
All-Star
Works for me.
Done. Thanks, much appreciated!
Yeah, I agree. That's just what we've done. VF has my pick ready to go. Better to keep this thing running smoothly than to slow it down. As well as that, knowing that your guy may be stolen is more incentive for people to log on and make their picks.
Done and done.
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