2014 NBA Draft Open Thread
Will tonight be the first time since 1990 where Michigan has a trio of first rounders?
Will the Pistons take a Wolverine if one is available?
Will Jordan Morgan sneak in the draft?
John Beilein said he will wait out all 60 picks to see if JMo gets drafted.
2. No because of one
3. Unfortunately no
are you referring to him staying in the Green Room for the entire draft?
** edit - I meant for this to be directed at WD **
Lots of trades.
Only 2 Wolverines go in round 1-- Nik and Mitch.
Pistons do not get any of them.
JMO does not get drafted.
Probably better if Jordan doesn't get picked. Undrafted free agents can choose their team whereas second-rounders are locked in to that team (without being guaranteed money). Realistically though, he's probably a longshot to make a team.
Would he go the D-League route?
Grand Rapids Drive, the newest DL team and new Pistons affiliate could be a good spot. They don't even have a roster yet.
more money and opportunity in Europe. The only reason I think he goes to the D league is if NBA teams have been giving him a lot of great feedback.
@detnewsRodBeard Beilein should just walk into recruits' homes, show them a picture of Mitch McGary's new Benz and walk out the front door.
— Myron Medcalf (@MedcalfByESPN) June 26, 2014
Won't be there at 29. RT @GoodmanESPN: Hearing Oklahoma City is strongly considering Mitch McGary with its second first-round pick (No. 29).
— Rod Beard (@detnewsRodBeard) June 26, 2014
Who won't be there at 29? OKC or MM?
Mitch.
Rumor has it the Hornets told him they'd take him at 24, but they just traded for Omir Asik, so who knows if that's true anymore. I would imagine Miami at 26 would be a fit seeing as they lost Birdman and already had a lack of big guys, but rumor has it LeBron is trying to force them to move up and take Shabazz Napier.
In other words, it's probably going to be a wild draft.
You're right. The New Orleans Hornets becomming the Charlotte Hornets screwed me up.
Considering Jordan didn't even make the DraftExpress list of top 100 seniors, let alone top 100 draft prospects, I'm going to guess the odds of him getting drafted are not very good.
You have to be realistic. The latest mocks I've seen don't even have Melvin Ejim getting drafted. He was the Big 12 Conference Player of the Year, 2nd Team All-American, averaged 17-8 on 50% shooting.
JMo is a 6'8" center who is limited athletically, doesn't block shots, averaged 6 and 5, and he'll be 23 by the time the NBA season rolls around.
He's not getting drafted.
Unfortuantely I agree with this. Still though, Morgan is a class act and a Michigan Man. The dude is in his early 20's. His next 5-10 years would look something like this if he wants:
- Sign a contract to play in Europe for several years at a solid salary. Get some life experience living in a foreign country.
- In the off season, keep in touch with the UofM BB program and continue to do community service around Metro Detroit.
- Eventually retire from professional BB in Europe and either get a sales job in Metro Detroit (while coaching a HS BB team and moonlighting as beloved local celebrity) or land some type of staff position on UofM BB squad.
It ain't a bad 5-10 year plan. He's a class act, and he will have some options no matter what happens tonight.
It would be great to see him get a shot. From his standpoint he might be better not getting drafted so he can pick his team though.
Please Cleveland please do not do anything stupid by trying to be too smart.
Draft Wiggins.
I'm not an NBA fan or anything, but I feel like any request that starts something like "Please Cleveland don't do anything stupid..." is not going to end well.
Thanks to @TrunkClub for the hook up. Me and my boy @dougmcd3 are looking fresh tonight! pic.twitter.com/c8cm4rLy5v
— Nik Stauskas (@NStauskas11) June 26, 2014
They're BFF's, have been working out together and built a friendship. May go back to back at #9 and #10.
Should I know who that it?
Oh.
Makes sense I wouldn't know who that is. I've never seen a single second of that show.
Might not be an awesome suit, but this is his competition:
One sip for every time Bilas says "length"
One gulp for every time Bilas says "wingspan"
Can't wait for my dreams to come true tonight after I took that year off. #NBADraft2014 #WhoIsTakingDaddy
Good for Matt...I'm sure he and McLimans have their draft day suits on.
Aaron Craft may have a better shot and there's no way he's getting picked either.
Hell Appling may not even get picked.
Potentially three first rounders. A chance at a fourth draftee. They're going to be talking a lot about Michigan tonight. The extensions for our assistants has been in the works for a couple of weeks. I applaud the tactical decision to release the news tonight. High schoolers will hear something like this:
"OKC takes Mitch McGary at #29. That's the third first rounder from Michigan, and the fifth in the last two years. Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. being the other two - fresh off successful rookie seasons that placed them on the All-Rookie Team. Tremendous talent development up there at UofM, and they've rewarded their assitant coaches with contract extensions through 2018."
I just took a look at last year's draft.
Obviously there's PLENTY of time to turn it around, but at the one year mark...that draft was exactly what we thought it'd be. AWFUL.
Gulp for wingspan.
He didn't catch himself, he usually brings up the popular draft day drinking game himself.
Picture of Beilein taking a picture of the Stauskas group.
But what is the dude on the right looking at?
(.Y.)
Earlier today I felt like doing a video of every Michigan first round draft pick.
Obviously, there wasn't enough consecutive years of video to do them all, so I was going to 1989-present first rounders.
Then, I couldn't find 1998 where Traylor was picked in the top-10, so that shot my whole plans.
Anyways, here's Michigan's last #1 draft choice that I uploaded. The Palace hosted the draft and that's probably why you couldn't hear the TNT commentators after he was picked-
Adam Silver still can't put together a full sentance without looking down at his notes.
Awful...just like the Sterling press conference.
Why did the Spurs get booed?
And Silver is better than Stern. Stern just went out there and got booed heavily, and for good reason. "I can't hear you." Shut up and run the draft
Cleveland got booed. Not the Spurs.
Spurs for winning when the Knicks or Nets didn't
Cleveland for winning the lottery when they had a 1.7% chance.
And the favorite team of all the fans in attendance did not.
...but all the Canadian National Team would be pretty formidable.