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...and the first two don't count.

Herb Simon's comments made an excellent excuse for Kravitz to publish this column for the 14th time in the last three years.

I guess if you say something long enough and consistently enough, it will eventually become right.

However, I still don't favor dumping Williams unless he was actually, directly involved in aiding and abetting the fugitive, which I have not seen evidence of. I also thinking cutting Harrison now is just a meaningless gesture, but, whatever...

Kravits is a moron. He really believes he was the driving force behind Knight and Sampson being fired, and now he wants to get his two cents in to make it appear he forced the Pacers to make changes.

If Walsh and Bird are unwilling or unable to do the necessary dirty work, then send them along and bring in a new architect, somebody like Kiki Vandeweghe, who rescued the Denver Nuggets after years of abject futility.

He really doesn't know a thing about our history. Obviously Walsh rescued this franchise in the mid-to-late eighties, and built us into an annual contender. Besides if it wasn't for Detroit dropping the ball and drafting Darko, Denver would still be in shambles.

Boneman2 wrote:Kravits is a moron. He really believes he was the driving force behind Knight and Sampson being fired, and now he wants to get his two cents in to make it appear he forced the Pacers to make changes.

If Walsh and Bird are unwilling or unable to do the necessary dirty work, then send them along and bring in a new architect, somebody like Kiki Vandeweghe, who rescued the Denver Nuggets after years of abject futility.

He really doesn't know a thing about our history. Obviously Walsh rescued this franchise in the mid-to-late eighties, and built us into an annual contender. Besides if it wasn't for Detroit dropping the ball and drafting Darko, Denver would still be in shambles.

Well they'd have Wade or Bosh who'd I take over Melo any day.

^^^ Not exactly. There is a reason Darko went so high, he was suppose to be a future cornerstone. He wouldn't have dropped below Wade and/or Bosh.

Regardless, Kravitz is a dumb a$$.

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Well they'd have Wade or Bosh who'd I take over Melo any day.

Denver was taking Darko if he was available.

I thought we were going by the indication that everyone knew he'd be a bust, otherwise why would Detroit pass on him?

Nope...at the time, Darko was considered something of a can't miss. Nowitzki had just exploded, and the book was that he was going to be better than Dirk.

I didn't think much one way or the other, and I would've taken 'Melo over Darko, but I also questioned whether or not it wouldn't have been wiser for 'Melo to go ahead of LeBron, but not strongly.

Darko, however, was in that box, and Bosh and Wade were considered (by most) to be a step below those guys.

Wade, especially, was not expected to go top-5. He was slotted somewhere around the 8-12 spots. Bosh was pegged at the top of the general pool of prospects as LeBron, Darko, and Melo were elevated above them.

I'd like to think more of it than just a crap shoot. but the draft was, is, and always will be a crap shoot.