6'6 vs. 6'4
You always see LeVert surrounded by huge dudes and Funchess was going up against 5"10 dudes.
on basketball players when I got to stand next to Isiah Thomas and Joe Dumars at a MIchigan game once. I mean, those guys always looked tiny on the court, expecially Isiah. Well duh, Isiah was clearly taller than me (because of course he is) and Dumars just towered over me, because the dude is 6' 4". I had never really put it in perspective just how tall the OTHER basketball guys were until I stood next to the smallest guys like Thomas and realized that in real life, he was not a short man at all.
I saw Dumars on an airplane many years ago. He was sitting in first class. I was not. So I didn't get a reality check on his height.
It looks like Adam Silver to me.
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Good in terms of playing time, but as we've seen with Nik in Philly, that's not always a good thing. Worry would be that the only guys on the roster that can occupy a leadership role and teach Caris, and the other young players, how to be a pro and to understand how the game is played in the NBA are Brook Lopez, who's on the training block, and Jarrett Jack, who's coming off an ACL, has a hefty contract ($6.3 milliion) and a $500,000 team option buy-out.
Jack is known to be a good, solid, team-oriented vet, so if he's there, it'll be good for Caris, but it's hard to see the Nets paying $5 million+ for leadership.
Good for him. Might even be able to catch him playing this year.
Another 1st rounder by Beilein.
One bit of good news: his injuries led to him getting his degree. Walking away with guaranteed money and a Michigan degree. Nice!
generic 3 star --> 2+ years with Beilein --> 1st round draft pick
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Seriously, Brooklyn has by far the most boring roster in the NBA, just totally devoid of exciting players. It's probably the worst roster too. For all the problems of Philly, at least they've got an imagined plan for how they get better. For the Nets, they basically just have to sit and wait until they start to get their draft picks back at the end of the decade.
Caris is exactly the kind of move they have to make, ie, pick a guy with lottery potential but a bad injury history, probably too high, in the hopes that he hits.
Wow - nice $1.3million or so pay day. Congratulations, Caris!
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Go Blue! Go Picktown!
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Great, get to see Caris play in an awesome arena with super cheap tickets!
Rad ass! Congrats, Caris!
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Denzel Valentine was national player of the year. I don't think Caris beats him both out at the conference level.
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Valentine was AP player of the year, consensus first team All-American.
It doesn't matter the relative worthiness of the AP award, or if Hield is better than Valentine, the point was that Caris likely doesn't beat out Valentine for the honors that Denzel earned.
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They don't really have anything to lose. They're a terrible team that's guaranteed to be terrible for the next few years, until they get out from under all the dumb trades they made when they were transitioning to Brooklyn. They have to take a gamble that a guy with lottery upside gets over his health issues, even if it's not likely. When you're a bad team picking in the 20s, you might as well go for the 7/1 shot at drafting a guy who can become an all star, because you've already got a whole roster of 1-2 tool journeymen.
So happy for him. He deserved it.
So happy. Thank goodness. I felt sick that his luck was going to keep him out of the first round.
I hung out with his mom and his aunt at a game - such nice people. I am so relieved Caris got into the first round - this is a great family that deserved this!
YES!!!!!!!!
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Congrats to the classy young man.
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