From the Associated Press:

"Given the state of global affairs, the NBA is asking teams not to refer to their meeting places as 'war rooms.' The league prefers 'draft centers.'"

Let's leave war rooms fro what really matters--the NFL! wink

~Adam

How many of these high school players (8 or 9 of them were selected before Jameer Nelson) are actually going to be good in the pros? :confused:

I agree Joe and I dont understand why Orlando picked Howard, their defense is TERRIBLE!! Okafur would have been a much smarter and better pick in my opinion.

I was amazed at the number of high school players that went in the first round of the draft. There have been only a handful of great NBA players coming out of high school. It appears to be a crapshoot.

I was particularly suprised that Jameer Nelson, College Basketball Player of the year was drafted 20th. Sebastian Telfair a guard right out of high school, is about the same height at 5'11' and was picked 13th.

The odd thing is Jameer purposely played his senior year because he wanted to go higher in the draft this year than a late first round pick. So much for that strategy. Meanwhile Delonte West, Jameer's teamate was drafted just 4 spots behind Jameer after foregoing his senior season.

[ June 24, 2004, 08:37 PM: Message edited by: phillyrunner ]

From all the hype the high schoolers got prior to the draft, I was pleased to see that the majority of players selected in the first two rounds were from college--and a good number of these actually went for four years. My big concern is what the eight high schoolers means for those just entering their HS senior year this coming September. Lots more of them are going to believe they're ready (ha!) and will be easy prey for the scummiest of agents.

~Adam