Dream Team Draft - rankings due Sunday night
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kingsnation
All-Star
I'll trade you a coach for Jordan.
Only if you're referring to the Wizards version of Jordan.
vikinginferno
Starter
How about a vote for trading? I would say yes to trading, but not until we are done with the draft.
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GeraldWallace#3
Bench
Rajon Rondo
A good solid point guard, Rondo is. I needed a guy who could step up in big moments (ex. Playoffs) and I think Rondo is that guy. Can score, can rebound better then any point guard in the league right now, good defence, and is a good passer and ballhandler.
Best Year
5.2 RPG/ 8.2 AST/ 1.9 STL/ 11.9 PPG
A good solid point guard, Rondo is. I needed a guy who could step up in big moments (ex. Playoffs) and I think Rondo is that guy. Can score, can rebound better then any point guard in the league right now, good defence, and is a good passer and ballhandler.
Best Year
5.2 RPG/ 8.2 AST/ 1.9 STL/ 11.9 PPG
Kings Faithful
Starter
My next choice is... Devin Harris
21.3 ppg, 6.9 apg, 3.3 rpg
21.3 ppg, 6.9 apg, 3.3 rpg
Kings Faithful
Starter
Rajon Rondo
A good solid point guard, Rondo is. I needed a guy who could step up in big moments (ex. Playoffs) and I think Rondo is that guy. Can score, can rebound better then any point guard in the league right now, good defence, and is a good passer and ballhandler.
Best Year
5.2 RPG/ 8.2 AST/ 1.9 STL/ 11.9 PPG
I almost chose him just seconds ago, but I went with Harris instead
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
If trades had been the rule, it would have dramatically altered the way people would have drafted. Rather than for need, you would have just drafted for pure talent. Corner the market on centers or PGs or some such and then trade them for the guys you want.
vikinginferno
Starter
Yeah I guess your right...
GeraldWallace#3
Bench
My next choice is... Devin Harris
21.3 ppg, 6.9 apg, 3.3 rpg
Hahaha, It was between Rondo and Harris for me too, guess we have the same tatse.
LoungeLizard
Starter
T and M have both been drafted.....but the C? Can't believe he fell this far.
Chris Mullin SF
Mullin was an original "Dream Team" member, 5 time all star, NBA first teamer in 1992 and rocked the best flat top the NBA has ever seen. Enjoy this video package and see if you can pick out some of those Kings from yesteryear
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Chris Mullin SF
Mullin was an original "Dream Team" member, 5 time all star, NBA first teamer in 1992 and rocked the best flat top the NBA has ever seen. Enjoy this video package and see if you can pick out some of those Kings from yesteryear
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Kings Faithful
Starter
I still think we should cast a vote at the end... Drafting for pure talent at this point won't make a huge difference considering the foundation of our teams have been drafted out of need. And since their is a vote their is no guarantee that it will pass...if you draft for talent and the vote doesn't pass causing your team to lack chemistry then that was the risk you took and its your loss. Kind of adds a new element and almost makes it more like "drafty".
vikinginferno
Starter
With arguably the best center on defense ever in Bill Russell and also an amazing defender at power forward on my first team in Moses Malone, I am going to draft one that is amazing on offense and still great on defense to back him up and also able to fill in at power forward. Some of you may have forgotten just how dominant on both sides he was in his prime now that he has lost much of his dominance.
Jermaine O'Neal
Back when he was younger, he was one of the best players in the NBA. He was a great all around player. He could score easily, block shots, rebound, and just flat out play. In his best season, he averaged 22.8 ppg, 17.5 rpg, 3 blocks per game, and shot almost 80% from the free throw line. He has been an all star 6 times and was an all nba player for three seasons. He also led Indiana to the NBA Playoffs six times, including the Conference Finals in the 2003–04 season.
* NBA All-Star: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
* All-NBA:
* Second Team: 2004
* Third Team: 2002, 2003
* NBA Most Improved Player Award: 2002
* NBA Magic Johnson Award: 2004
* Holds the Pacers franchise records for:
* Most blocks in a game: 10 (January 22, 2003 vs. the Toronto Raptors)
* Most blocks in a season: 228 (2000–01)
* Most rebounds in a playoffs game: 22 (April 29, 2003 vs. Boston Celtics)
* Highest rebounding average in a playoff series: 17.5 (2003 Eastern Conference First Round vs. Boston Celtics)
* Most free throws attempted in a game: 25 (January 4, 2005 vs. the Milwaukee Bucks)
Jermaine O'Neal
Back when he was younger, he was one of the best players in the NBA. He was a great all around player. He could score easily, block shots, rebound, and just flat out play. In his best season, he averaged 22.8 ppg, 17.5 rpg, 3 blocks per game, and shot almost 80% from the free throw line. He has been an all star 6 times and was an all nba player for three seasons. He also led Indiana to the NBA Playoffs six times, including the Conference Finals in the 2003–04 season.
* NBA All-Star: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
* All-NBA:
* Second Team: 2004
* Third Team: 2002, 2003
* NBA Most Improved Player Award: 2002
* NBA Magic Johnson Award: 2004
* Holds the Pacers franchise records for:
* Most blocks in a game: 10 (January 22, 2003 vs. the Toronto Raptors)
* Most blocks in a season: 228 (2000–01)
* Most rebounds in a playoffs game: 22 (April 29, 2003 vs. Boston Celtics)
* Highest rebounding average in a playoff series: 17.5 (2003 Eastern Conference First Round vs. Boston Celtics)
* Most free throws attempted in a game: 25 (January 4, 2005 vs. the Milwaukee Bucks)
Harumpf... 
I could have sworn I sent my #10 pick to Brickie, but maybe not. Sorry for any delay.
For my 10th pick, I'm going with another player from the old Royals days...
Adrian "Odie" Smith - G
I'll have his bio up in a minute.
Adrian Howard Smith (born October 5, 1936, in Farmington, Kentucky) is an American former National Basketball Association player.
Smith was a member of the undefeated U.S. men's basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics.
A 6"1" guard, he was drafted out of the University of Kentucky by the Cincinnati Royals in 1961. Career highlights include his surprising winning of the 1966 NBA All-Star Game MVP in which he scored 24 points in 26 minutes of play (assisted, literally, by his regular season teammate Oscar Robertson), and his league-leading free throw percentage of 90.3% in the 1966-67 season. In the 1969-70 season, Smith was traded by the Royals to the San Francisco Warriors. Smith's NBA career ended following the 1970-71 season, after which he played one season in the American Basketball Association with the Virginia Squires.
Now you have to be asking why Smith, right? Easy really. He was part of a US Olympic team that was incredible. They were, according to USA Basketball, "Touted as the greatest basketball team in Olympic history, the 1960 U.S. squad was so perfectly balanced that, unlike previous USA Olympic cage teams, no one player emerged as a dominant star. Five USA players finished the Olympic competition averaging in double figures, paced by Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas who both averaged 17.0 points a game. Proof of the wealth of talent available to 1960 USA Olympic coach Pete Newell is found in the fact that 10 members of the 1960 12-man roster went on to play professionally in the NBA."
Remember that was back when it was just amateurs at the Olympics - of course, the 1960 men's team boasted amateurs like Oscan Robertson, Jerry Lucas and Jerry West, who - along with Odie Smith - averaged in double digits and went 8-0 in Rome for the Gold.
I could have sworn I sent my #10 pick to Brickie, but maybe not. Sorry for any delay.
For my 10th pick, I'm going with another player from the old Royals days...
Adrian "Odie" Smith - G
I'll have his bio up in a minute.
Adrian Howard Smith (born October 5, 1936, in Farmington, Kentucky) is an American former National Basketball Association player.
Smith was a member of the undefeated U.S. men's basketball team that won the gold medal in the 1960 Olympics.
A 6"1" guard, he was drafted out of the University of Kentucky by the Cincinnati Royals in 1961. Career highlights include his surprising winning of the 1966 NBA All-Star Game MVP in which he scored 24 points in 26 minutes of play (assisted, literally, by his regular season teammate Oscar Robertson), and his league-leading free throw percentage of 90.3% in the 1966-67 season. In the 1969-70 season, Smith was traded by the Royals to the San Francisco Warriors. Smith's NBA career ended following the 1970-71 season, after which he played one season in the American Basketball Association with the Virginia Squires.
Now you have to be asking why Smith, right? Easy really. He was part of a US Olympic team that was incredible. They were, according to USA Basketball, "Touted as the greatest basketball team in Olympic history, the 1960 U.S. squad was so perfectly balanced that, unlike previous USA Olympic cage teams, no one player emerged as a dominant star. Five USA players finished the Olympic competition averaging in double figures, paced by Oscar Robertson and Jerry Lucas who both averaged 17.0 points a game. Proof of the wealth of talent available to 1960 USA Olympic coach Pete Newell is found in the fact that 10 members of the 1960 12-man roster went on to play professionally in the NBA."
Remember that was back when it was just amateurs at the Olympics - of course, the 1960 men's team boasted amateurs like Oscan Robertson, Jerry Lucas and Jerry West, who - along with Odie Smith - averaged in double digits and went 8-0 in Rome for the Gold.
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vikinginferno
Starter
SLAB change Jermaine O Neal to C/PF.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Harumpf...
I could have sworn I sent my #10 pick to Brickie, but maybe not. Sorry for any delay.
For my 10th pick, I'm going with another player from the old Royals days...
Adrian "Odie" Smith - G
I'll have his bio up in a minute.
Oops -- totally slipped my mind as I was only thinking of filling in for you last night.
Was pretty sure he was safe though.
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
With you and tradepeja currently picking, Larry89 and bdouble013 should be up next.
Oops -- totally slipped my mind as I was only thinking of filling in for you last night.
Was pretty sure he was safe though.
You do realize you were risking the unbridled wrath of Ooga Booga had someone for some bizarre reason actually picked him, right? I think he was underrated a lot because he played with Oscar Robertson. He was a favorite player of my dad's, though, so this pick was partially in homage to Dad.
tradepeja
Starter
I select another 3-pt specialist in
Craig Hodges - SG
Absolutely deadly. Won three 3-pt challenges in a row.
and
Shawn Marion - SF/PF/C
This will be my all-around big man, freak athlete off the bench to compliment Olajuwon and Pettit. I'm taking 2006 Marion here, the guy who had the ridiculous stats of 21.8 PPG, 11.8 RPG, 1.8 APG, 2.0 SPG, 1.7 BPG on 52.5 FG%, 82 FT%, and 32 3PFG%. Damn, what happened to him?
Craig Hodges - SG
Absolutely deadly. Won three 3-pt challenges in a row.
and
Shawn Marion - SF/PF/C
This will be my all-around big man, freak athlete off the bench to compliment Olajuwon and Pettit. I'm taking 2006 Marion here, the guy who had the ridiculous stats of 21.8 PPG, 11.8 RPG, 1.8 APG, 2.0 SPG, 1.7 BPG on 52.5 FG%, 82 FT%, and 32 3PFG%. Damn, what happened to him?
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
tradepeja, if you could PM bdouble013 and Larry89 ratehr than the normal person who follows you that would pretty much set this draft to rights once again.
Larry89
Disgruntled Kings Fan
DALE DAVIS
Double D, the ultimate unheralded work horse. A linchpin on a very successful Indiana team, and later on a pretty successful Portland team, Dale helps his teams win by doing the dirty work. Rebounding, defense, put-backs, picks, more rebounding, more defense. Reggie Miller will tell you he was a key reason that IND had as successful of a run as they did.
I needed the keep the toughness and defensive pace coming off the bench.
Hustler, Rebounder, Defender, Shotblocker, Mean, Gives Hard Fouls..
6-11 255LBS
Best Season .. with pacers..
12/11/1.6blks/1.5ast
Sooo.. Duncan/Sheed/Wallace/Davis
Double D, the ultimate unheralded work horse. A linchpin on a very successful Indiana team, and later on a pretty successful Portland team, Dale helps his teams win by doing the dirty work. Rebounding, defense, put-backs, picks, more rebounding, more defense. Reggie Miller will tell you he was a key reason that IND had as successful of a run as they did.
I needed the keep the toughness and defensive pace coming off the bench.
Hustler, Rebounder, Defender, Shotblocker, Mean, Gives Hard Fouls..
6-11 255LBS
Best Season .. with pacers..
12/11/1.6blks/1.5ast
Sooo.. Duncan/Sheed/Wallace/Davis
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Larry89
Disgruntled Kings Fan
I hate you.
Really.
well you can show me how much you hate me by changing sheed to PF/C and Dale to PF/C
Bricklayer
Don't Make Me Use The Bat
Camby too (to PF/C).
Now send me my PM Larry.
Now send me my PM Larry.
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