McGary Has 1st Rd Promise from Charlotte at 24
Looks like the Hornets have given Mitch McGary a promise to take him 24th overall, according to Chad Ford of ESPN. This should help explain him being unwilling to take a physical prior to the draft. It's not an official, binding guarantee the Hornets will select him if available. Although teams usually stick by draft promises, assuming he's still on the board when they pick, which he should be.
Here's the LINK for that story.
In other NBA news, the Pistons and Kings have had talks about a Josh Smith trade, with Derrick Williams and either Jason Thompson or Jason Terry coming back to Detroit. Hope that one pans out.
"McGary's agent leaks something in hopes of gaining hype, enticing another team to trade up for him."
Could be wrong though. Hope I am. I'd love to see McGary still go 1st round. If we're going to lose him, he'd better damn well still get drafted
NBA promises tend to mean something. If you promise a player and don't follow through good luck dealing with that agent in the future.
that workout was last week. The promise could have come within the last 24 hours. Just my speculation.
EDIT
Reply to the comment about his Bucks workout
It's hard for me to take any draft seriously knowing that Spergon Wynn was drafted ahead of Tom Brady and Darko was drafted directly ahead of, well, uh, like three future Hall of Famers.
This is the same line of thinking as "Look how many 2 stars get drafted!". I'm sure there's a pretty great correlation between draft position and production in any of the pro leagues. There will be guys who flame out and no names who flourish, but that doesn't mean all drafts are crapshoots
knowing how many planes have crashed anyway
Unloading Josh Smith would be equivalent to the Lions' unloading of Roy Williams. A coup de grace.
Article also says SAC would part with their #8 overall pick, which, hell yeah. Pistons could even have a chance at Stauskas.
Don't think they meant for smith. The tweet implied that was to go after Rondo.
Then why did McGary work out for the Bucks and only the Bucks? Seems a bit odd, no?
Obviously sucks to lose McGary and GRIII, but if we gotta lose 'em, it's nice to be able to tell recruits "Hey [Recruit Guy], we've had five 1st round picks and two Elite 8 appearances in 2 years. Come to Michigan"
GRIII will not go in the 1st round.
Yes, this is unfortunately very true.
I will agree here that GRIII is likely not destined to go in the first round, but that being said, even having Stauskas and McGary go in the first round should hopefully say something to kids considering Michigan. Really, having three players go in the draft overall in what seems like a very wide field says much about the program and hopefully means that the trend of sending multiple players each year continues.
I don't think most do. Some do, but I think the consensus has him off the board at the beginning of the second round. And I think that's about right. This is a deep draft, and there are just a lot more sure things out there.
...landing spot for Nik.
If that were to pan out, I might have to adopt a second favorite team!
Plus their new uniforms are sweet.
I like this blog because the users educate me. I have never heard of a draft promise before. I've heard of a "we like you, you're on our board at this spot", but never a promise that anyone thinks will stick. Why would a team do this? I mean, there would be a lot of reasons to make a promise like that, then break it - it could lead other teams off their true intent, among other things. But there doesn't seem to be any value in making a promise like this before the draft, have that go public, and then keep it.
for a draft promise is for a team to get a guy to stop going to workouts. Let's say for the sake of the example that the Hornets think the Raptors have interest in McGary at 20. If he doesn't work out for them, they may not be comfortable taking a player they haven't seen in person, and he'll still be there at 24.
Its pretty common in the NBA. Every year you hear guys have shutdown workouts after getting a promise from a team.
Thanks to you both. That does answer the question of how either side benefits. Still seems extremely risky on both ends. I'd work out for err'body
Looks like somebody's gonna bust out that old Starter jacket!
McGary in the first round? That can't be true because the Detroit papers said the Pistons might draft him with their pick in the second round!
I just can't get excited about one of these "promises"
My Hornets are going to get Stauskas, McGary AND GRIII...
be in the NBA "green room", GRIII is likely to be a 1st-rounder, and that McGary has been "promised" by Charlotte, that leaves just one remaining draft question mark involving a Wolverine:
Where will Mitch McGray be picked?
/s
whether Dakich will be in the green room next year.
The son of Mark, it's right there... /
Josh. Not John.
Who is the fan now?
John is a former teammate of McGray
Like to see him get drafted in the 1st round, but if I'm Mitch I'm not putting too much stock in this promise right now. I do think whoever drafts him will be getting a steal.