IF THE NFL draft is a highly anticipated chess tournament featuring a room full of Grand Masters, the NBA draft is a Rubik’s Cube contest at an elementary school picnic. You can imagine a handful of youngsters being able to solve the puzzle with ease; everyone else will be bumblin’ and fumblin’, and generally acting clueless. College freshmen dominated this year’s early choices. After that, can anyone say for certain that a team got someone who will help in the short-term? Can anyone say for certain that these kids know that the orange bouncy ball is supposed to go through the hoop with the net on it? Here are some of the descriptions of potential first-round draft choices that appeared in Thursday’s editions of The State: ...
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