Sports thread for the night

[Weevil]

Has any team, any team made a worse draft pick then the Raptors with Marcus Camby in '96?

I don't mean anything against Camby he's a serviceable NBA player and you can find worse than getting a decent player with a number two pick.

But you look at almost any other pick the raptors could have made and it boggles the mind that they picked Camby. After Camby went these players were drafted: Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Stephon Marbury, Ray Allen, Antoine Walker, Kobe Bryant, Peja Stojakovic, Jermaine O'Neal, Zydrunas Ilgauskas, Lorenzen Wright, Kerry Kittles, Steve Nash.

Yeesh.

 

[Svedish_Chef]

Sam Bowie and Portland all those years ago?

 

[Private Vasquez]

Trajan Langdon to Cleveland - as their first round pick - two...maybe three years ago.

 

[Weevil]

Sam Bowie and Portland all those years ago?

Yes and no. That was obviously the biggest single player vs, player flub(Jordan) and there were lots of other good picks that year(Barkley, Robertson, Perkins, Stockton) but there were a whole mess of busts too. The Raptors couldn't really have made a worse pick.


Trajan Langdon? Instead of who?

 

[riff]

Well, I think the Saints fucked up majorly when they grabbed Danny Waffle and Heather Shuler.

 

[Weevil]

Well, I think the Saints fucked up majorly when they grabbed Danny Waffle and Heather Shuler.

The NFL draft is a crapshoot. What do you want?

 

[chewbacca71]

You have to remember Weevil, that at that point in his career, Marcus had not been hurt . He was still healthy, not the hypochondriac he is today. He has a big upside when he is healthy, which is about as often as halley comet.

How about the Celtics Lottery Draft pic, I think he was number 7 or 10 last year? I cant even remember his name, but he was out of the league after playing in I think it was 6 games.