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Speculation is that Raptors want Waiters bad - though that may be a smoke screen by Colangelo to try and get Barnes if he slips. Rivers is interesting, but the Ricky Davis comparisons scare me.Nik? said:Well, I'm super excited about this year's NBA draft. It's not star heavy but most agree that it's one of the deeper drafts in years. For the Raptors, picking 8th seems to be a pretty good spot. They won't have their first choice of the swingman they so desperately need but there should be some good ones still available. In order, this is who I'd be most happy with:
1. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist
2. Bradley Beal
3. Dion Waiters
4. Damien Lillard
5. Austin Rivers
MKG/Beal are almost sure locks to be gone by the time the Raps pick. Right now I'm getting the sense that all of my top four will be(I think the first seven picks go Davis, Beal, MKG, Waiters, Robinson, Lillard and Barnes) and the Raps will be staring down either Rivers ir UConn big man Andre Drummond. If that's the case, I'd be happy with Rivers and will curse loudly at Drummond.
I'll be back tonight to talk about the Raps first round draft choice, Andre Drummond.
Sgt said:I haven't given the Raptors much of my time of late though I was listening to Jones on the radio on the drive home last night and he feel there's a decent chance Nash signs in Toronto. Maybe they move Calderone and draft a PG regardless... Who knows? Jones when on further to say that Valanciunas would be the consensus #2 in this draft and one executive outside the Raptors told him that if they play their cards right today, the Raptors could easily be the most improved team in the NBA this year. Anyway, I hope he's right. There seems to be some buzz around the Raptors. Yeah, I'm a fair weather Raptors fan but still, who wouldn't want to see them have a good product?
#1PilarFan said:Rivers is interesting, but the Ricky Davis comparisons scare me.
#1PilarFan said:Nik, you might be in luck. Apparently Houston wants Drummond to use to trade for Howard, and Sacramento might give them the fifth pick to make it happen.
And Ford's newest mock draft has Harrison Barnes falling to the Raps. Oh how the mighty have fallen.
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For the record, Brian Burke would have taken Terrence Ross with the first overall pick of the NBA draft.
Beowulf said:Even if he wanted Ross, why didn't he trade down...
I wouldn't be on it. I haven't seen too many examples of teams drafting for other teams, but we here speculation about it every time a team makes a weird choice. Heck, I know we had this same conversation when the Raps drafted Charlie V.Chev-boyar-sky said:Read on Sportsnet chat that it's possible Ross is leverage in a sign-and-trade for Nash.
Apparently the Suns wanted him bad. Not sure I'd want to move the #8 for an aging PG, although just repeating what I saw somewhere else. Could be total BS.