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Ater Majok drafted by lakers 58th

Attn Moderators: Can someone strip the banter about "Racial Profiling" and put it in a separate thread and return this one back to a NBA draft topic like it was supposed to be.

Back on Topic; considering Majok has been recruited by the Lakers, he's going to be trained up by arguably one of the best franchises around. I think since he's still young and developing, he's been extended a big olive branch. Hopefully things turn out for the best.

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If my memory serves me correct Stephen Jackson played in the first season for coach Bill Tomilsom and they had a roster consisting of Scott mcgregor, shane heal, Matt Nielsen, Steve Whitehead, Arron Trahair, Bruce Bolden, and the former movie actor of Blue Chips and forgetble import Matt Nover. After Jackson's injury it seemed to go all downhill for the kings, Nover would be sacked because of poor play and the Kings would go through 7 imports during the season. Until finally settleing on point guard Kelsey Weems and can't remember the other import but he was a pretty talanted undersize centre. Kings would fail to make the playoffs and Heal would leave after the season and play in Europe.

KingJames your wrong Stephen Jackson got sacked from the Sydney Kings because he broke his foot and would be out between 2 to 3 months so the Kings decided to go and fill the import postion with someone else. Jackson was only 19 when he came over here and after a slow start was starting to find his feet and play well before the injury.

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la boy .. who most likely is at this draft,
told us he would be picked , probably by Lakers
and I took his word, skipping blythely over assinine things that others say.

Given we still have a big guy Aussie spot available, is it worth waiting to see if Majok gets cut by the lakers and offering him a contract with the 36ers, to back up Johnson and Ballinger.

Given he is an athletic rebounder/defender he would be a good compliment to both of them and would bring something different to the team.

Obviously if we can get a Kickert, Jawai, Baynes type sign them and dont wait, but if its the case that the spot is just going to a Vanderjagt/Dowdell type i say its worth waiting and just signing one of those guys at the last minute if we dont get anyone else, or im sure they would even be open to taking a 11th man contract with the opportunity to be in the 10 if we miss out one all of the above mentioned players/fill in for injuries as i doubt they will have too many other offers.

Sorry, did I miss something, Anon, there was that bloke from Melbourne that did alright, I think his name was Gaze, oh Andrew that's right, I think he may have been drafted.

Good luck to Ater. He is a long-shot to translate this into a long NBA career, but he's got a foot in the door and anything can happen if he works hard to develop his skill level. He certainly has the size and athleticism to do very well.

Big Marty, as was pointed out above, the Bucks traded the pick before they knew it would be Jimmer. In any case, I doubt they wanted him, because they already have Jennings at PG.

Instead, they took the opportunity to remove two mistakes (Salmons & Maggette) from their roster (bad contracts and chemistry) and replaced them with a very good wing scorer in Jackson and an offensive minded guard in Beno Udrih. Provided Jackson stays fit and buys in, he will fit very well into the Bucks offence. Udrih will also be perfect for the Bucks as he can perform the Ridnour role from two seasons ago, something they missed last season.

With Bogut in the middle and Jennings, Delfino and Jackson all able to shoot the three and drive to the basket, they should be able to crank out a few more points this season. The big question marks for them remain 1) can Bogut get and stay healthy? 2) can they get enough from Gooden, Sanders and Ilyasova at PF?

All in all, I think Hammond has done a good job to repair the mistakes he made last off-season and return it to something similar to the team that was quite successful the season before.

Well said KingJames.

Majok has physical attributes and athletic abilities suited to the NBA game. These attributes alone will not get him an NBA game, however if he can work hard on his game and continue to improve then who knows. I certainly would not begrudge anyone that opportunity. Obiously the Lakers thought their last pick was worth a chance should Majok finally begin to prove all his critics wrong. Only time will tell whether that is a success or not.

His awsome to watch when he was at perth!!! Great talent,needed more court time!!! To prove wat he could do!!! Top bloke, happy for him!!!!! just hope he rocks up for traing that's all!!!!

Averaged 5ppg for the Blaze, says it all really...

The buzz term for this trade is "draft and stash in Europe" but I don't think you could even stash Majok in Europe, not at a Euroleague/Eurocup calibre team anyway...

Wow, bit of a surprise but congrats to him.

Holy flippin dog doo! I did not expect to see that! I must admit that I have been a bit of a Majok hater lately but my hat goes off to him. He said he wanted to get drafted, he travelled over there to work out, I expected he would get smashed to pieces. Obviously, he must have what it takes. Congratulations to him and the very best of luck. He put in the hard work and he deserves the opportunity.

No. Happy for him and his family.

I'm more pissed that the Bucks got Jimmer Fredette and now they're trading him off in a 3-way trade with Charlotte and Sacramento.

The Bucks need scoring power, they get the NCAA scoring champ and College POTY; and decide to trade him.

FFS. I don't get it.