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Simple question involving 3 first round lottery bigs. Each has different pluses to their resume and none have much of an NBA work history. Let the voters decide.

Vazquez has shown no desire to play in the NBA and O'Bryant is a UFA this year so no team is going to waste their time trading for him. Shelden wins by default.

Vasquez was quoted about 2 months ago that he is now ready to come to the NBA. Some theorize that he was unhappy about playing time on his current team, but this is unconfirmed.

Not sure we can say Vasquez has show no interest at all. If he did not promise anything to Orlando, I can understand. If he say them before the draft he will come the following year I understand the frustration in Orlando. But it's pretty normal for some guy to stay with their professional club one or two more years if they are young. The draft can't bring him for sure. It just a thing they have to talk about before, and respect after.

Honesly- is Shelden even a lock to have his 4th year team option picked up at this point? He is barely seeing the floor for a mediocre team.

killbuckner wrote:Honesly- is Shelden even a lock to have his 4th year team option picked up at this point? He is barely seeing the floor for a mediocre team.

I've been working under the assumption that he is entering the final year of his contract (not picking up the 4th year option). If he's shown enough in practice to merit that 4th year at approx. $4M then he should be getting some minutes now. I would love to deal him either now or in the summer. I think you can get a better backup power forward by smart drafting in the 2nd round, which means a fraction of the price. About a third of the league has done that in the last 3 years while we wasted a #5 overall pick trying to get the same thing.

rookies:
Carl Landry
Glen Davis
2nd year:
Craig Smith
Paul Millsap
Leon Powe
3rd year:
Brandon Bass
Ronny Turiaf
Amir Johnson
Andray Blatche
Ryan Gomes

Even Aaron Gray and Alexander Johnson have shown as much promise as Shelden.

Well, it turns out that Shelden Williams had the most trade value.