Hoops

2013 NBA Draft

"What's wrong with Harden?

Sounds like the level of humility he had at OKC has gone way down"

MACDUB: the Harden tweet was a hoax that Chris Vernon either got fooled by or pretended to be fooled by:

@ChrisVernonShow: @JHarden13 yo... my bad. was all over my timeline, thought was real.
https://twitter.com/ChrisVernonShow/status/350432541766979585

Then his next tweet:
The @JHarden13 tweet was fake. apologies for being duped by twitter
https://twitter.com/ChrisVernonShow/status/350432869396652032

"i dont hate adams, just pissin off kiwis lol"

you were the only one pissed off lol

Adams has only been playing basketball for 5 years and was not exactly doing well at school 5 years ago either.
He is a very quick learner with freakish natural attributes and a great work ethic.

He will develop his offensive game over time and will contribute. His offensive game was not utilized under Jamie Dixon in a guard heavy rotation at Pitt.
NBA GM's and Scouts saw at the Draft Combines that he does in fact have a mid range jumper among other things.
Ibaka and Perkins will def help his defensive game also and Steve's easy going humorous personality should help him gel with his new teammates.

OKC just scored 3 million new fans.

because the anon trolling you doesn't rate Dellavadova he must be a hater from New Zealand YouKnowMe?

Australians like New Zealanders tend to over rate a lot of our own players in the global scheme of things (nothing wrong with being patriotic) but Dellavadova would not be one of the Australian players I would call overrated.

There were some pretty decent PGs that missed out. Kabongo, Pressey, Kenny Boynton, and Brandon Paul who I really thought was a lock to be picked, though he is more of a SG/PG. Delly had a tough field of PGs to compete with. Even Seth Curry, though again more of a SG/PG.

Now, here's hoping the 36ers get Brandon Paul or Seth Curry as an import ;-)

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/basketball/news/article.cfm?c_id=21&objectid=10893634

A video of Steve Adams thanking Kiwi fans for all their support and encouraging young Kiwi Kids to surpass his feats.

He reckons he'll hopefully be back soon with a ton of OKC gear to give out haha.

Good humble kid

@Bear -

"No. 42 - Philadelphia 76ers
The Pick: Pierre Jackson, G, Baylor
Jackson is a quick guard with most of the tools on offense but lacks good ball-handling skills."

I appreciate the notes, but where are you getting your info from? If Jackson weren't 5'10 he would've challenged for a lottery pick; his ball handling is at least right up there with Michael Carter-Williams and Trey Burke.

Youknowme,

I think a lot of teams were after bigs for the second round.

When teams did need a PG, there were still some very good PGs on the board, such as Lorenzo Brown, Nate Wolters and Peyton Siva.

LC is right. Good result.

I hope Delly goes undrafted...he can then pick up a deal via Free agency. I would had for someone to hold his rights and stash him away.

on twitter just said brett brown the new coach of the 76ers.

Harden doesn't have to look far to get some amusement from NBA teams front offices.

Houston signed Lin to a contract that will pay him $15m a year in the back-end of a $25m 3 year deal.
That $15m will kick in when the new CBA takes effect.

Very amusing.

Most people said exactly that about the Lakers this season when they signed Howard - only thing they scared was their fans away who got sick of watching superstar egos rather than a superstar team

remember harden choked in the finals. Would have been great to keep him but his style is ball in hand when OKC already have durant and westbrook to do that.

if harden wanted a little less then he probably would have stayed.

its all a business now and makes it a little hard to identify with sometimes. Especially when you fav players are traded.

The Situation, they were forced to trade him in a way.

Harden wanted a max deal. It was more of a financial problem. They offered him $55mil over 4 years (which I thought was a lot).

OKC are a small-market team. They don't have Lakers type money.

Also, Harden didn't play in the finals Situation.
I mean he was present, but I didn't see him 'play'.

What's wrong with Harden?

Sounds like the level of humility he had at OKC has gone way down.

cant believe the sixers are trading jrue - gonna be a hard team to support next season but then im used to supporting them with no great success for some time.
Sixers have obviously given up on Bynum.

they better not send jrue.... send his brother instead.

haha Youknowme, choosing 60 first down to 1 .. way now thats a good fire way to lift spirits and kill it. I hope that was not a serious comment.

Adams reminds me so damn much of Tyson Chandler.

Initially, that should be something to aim for. Getting rebounds, blocking shots, setting good screens, talking and communicating defensively and finishing around the rim/cleaning up misses.

Every team would love a Tyson Chandler type guy. His value goes so far beyond the stats.

Some news that the Thunder may trade up. (i.e. trade their no. 12 and 29 picks plus someone like Perkins to get into the top 5).

Makes a huge amount of sense. If they were to get into the top 5, they would get either Noel or Len. Someone like Len could make an immediate impact.

Orlando could be a prime target for the Thunder to trade with.

I think the Thunder realise that Adams may be off the board by the time the 12th pick comes around. So they want to trade up and get a quality big. Must not think much of guys like Plumlee or Olynyk.

I have a feeling Adams is going to Portland @ 10