JMac1 wrote:bwgood77 wrote:JMac1 wrote:
This is a business BW. The NBA Draft is a BIG part of their off-season and everyone involved want it to be must watch TV. This is about making money. You best believe the NBA has some insight on who is going where and when, because they damn sure don't pull names out of a hat. Plenty of hints have been dropped. Don't forget, everybody has friends and family and connections and they talk.
I knew about Paul Richardson Jr. going to Washington before it was a done deal, because his dad and I are like brothers. I knew about what was going to happen to Dez Bryant before it happened as well, because that info was a part of Jr's negotiation with Dallas before he signed with Washington, I only told one very close friend of mine who is a Cowboys fan. The info floats around bigtime, it depends on who has knowledge. I am sure McD's family know who we are taking and some close friends of theirs. No body is that tight lipped, plus most close friends get info because these guys are human, they talk like regular people.
Of course the Suns FO won't tell, but I am sure they got a hunch from somewhere. They don't need anyone's big board, just and idea on who is going early.....they know.
Yeah, I knew we were taking Amare well before the fact, but it's still all just an educated guess. Like the fact he came in twice to work out for us. How many teams they've worked out for, and they get more whispers than we do about who had good workouts and stuff. It's just the way you wrote it made it sound like the NBA office knew who was going at each pick or something.
Oh. Nah. That would be foolish. How did you know about Amare?
Lived in the same community as Suns coach Phil Weber at the time and saw him in the gym and at the pool quite often so we'd always talk Suns. I was surprised how open he was about things. Of course that type of thing wouldn't happen now.
