The 2007 NBA Draft Recap

I was plenty distracted last night while watching the NBA Draft because of the deal that my Knicks threw down. In case you missed it, New York acquired Zach Randolph, Dan Dickau, and Fred Jones for Channing Frye and Steve Francis. Just as a side note, I love this deal for the Knicks. Essentially, we dealt Frye for Randolph and got rid of Francis’ lucrative $34 mil. over the next two years. I couldn’t be happier. How can a starting 5 of Marbury, Crawford, D-Lee, Randolph and and Eddy Curry go wrong…we shall see. Alright, back to the subject at hand, the NBA Draft. One of the main topics for argument last night was whether or not this draft class was deeper than the ’03 group that included ‘Bron, Melo and Wade. Stephen A. Smith says no way, Dicky V. begs to differ. This led to a highly comical exchange between the two live last night. Personally, I truly believe that this ’07 group has super high potential. However, I do not think that they will transcend the league quite like the ’03 guys have, Oden and Durant included. Anyway, I’ll get on to my winners and losers from this year’s draft…

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