Last night, the most valuable player for the Memphis Tigers — no, it wasn’t Derrick Rose — didn’t get drafted until later in the second round and I have to wonder why. Here is a list of some of the guards taken before CDR:
Derrick Rose
O.J. Mayo
Russell Westbrook
Eric Gordon
Joe Alexander
D.J. Augustin
Jerryd Bayless
Brandon Rush
Courtney Lee
George Hill
J. [...]

While I’ve long been an admirer of Michael Beasley’s talent (I got to see him play in the Derby Festival before he enrolled at K-State) and while I think Chicago was mistaken for passing on him for Derrick Rose — too many guards and not enough post players — I’m not sure if he South [...]

The NBA Draft was last night if you couldn’t tell, and what did we learn? The Chicago Bulls talked themselves out of a scoring post player for a homegrown guard. Not that Derrick Rose is a bad pick, not at all. However, the Bulls already have a glut of guards (none as [...]

Yi Jianlian is preparing to trade jerseys with the guy behind him
The New Jersey Nets decided they didn’t want to go through today’s NBA Draft hullabaloo without contributing to the headlines. So what did they and the Milwaukee Bucks do? They agreed to swap players — allegedly (I’m adding that in case the trade [...]

More news from the land of the NBA Draft:
Sounds like the Jermaine O’Neal deal to Toronto is not set in stone. In fact, some might label it “speculation.” Is this another case of team management getting upset word was leaked to the media, so they pull the plug on the whole thing? [...]

With the NBA Draft being tonight, there’s a bunch of stuff going on the day of. Things like Jermaine O’Neal moving to Canada (for T.J. Ford and the 17th pick among others) and the continued rumbles about Miami not being enamored with Michael Beasley. We also have news of the Blazers trying to [...]