From the money-grubbing owners scraping their cash around like low-level drug dealers, to the ever smarmy David Stern announcing the picks to a rowdy New York crowd, to the trifling depth in this pool of players- except Griffin- this years draft was worth a chuckle. After Tuesday night, May 19,the excitement for this year's draft deadend when the lottery was held and the world found out the L.A. Clipper's had the first pick. There was no question of who the best player was in Blake Griffin, and the Clip's management made it clear that they were going to take him number one.
After Griffin was picked the rest of the NBA teams seemed to have no idea what they were doing, making trade after trade for neither players nor picks- but cash. Yes, the owners have also been affected by this recession. Meanwhile, there was the NBA hopeful Brandon Jennings showing up late to his own draft, the Minnesota Timberwolves picking up three point guards-one being Ricky Rubio who now says he will go back to Spain because he didnt like the cold weather in Minnesota- and then there was from pick 15 on kids who you've never heard of. This embaressing lack-luster showcase by the NBA not only shed a light on how bad the the rookie talent is going to be this year but it also showed how college basketball is going to run in the future. There were 10 college freshman taken in the first round, an indicator than all of these 'one-and-done' players are making the collegiate level of play very transient because of the little time that people will see them develop and compete. This development makes for a very poisonous enviroment where you have college coaches caught in recruiting scandles and seedy agents scouting out these prospects at even younger ages. This however is not a laughing matter.
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