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June 29, 2012
BKN Nets ~ Billy King's Deals Left Brooklyn Quiet in the Night
BrooklynTrolleyBlogger
The poor BrooklynTrolleyBlogger was so distraught with the Nets' draft that he missed their first two picks.
It doesn't really hit home, until it hits home. And I'm not talking about the Barclays Center either. Lack of a number one pick in Thursday's NBA Draft left a major void in the Brooklyn night. It's a predicament I wasn't at all pleased the team created for themselves upon consummating that foolish deal for Gerald Wallace which eventually came back to kick Billy King in the ass. I guess you can tell I'm no fan of that deal. Nor am I big fan of GM Billy King. I think I made that clear on day one. I rue the day Rod Thorne ceased being this organization's overseer.
It's Thorn, actually, with no "e," but why quibble. The man's clearly at wit's end.
The Nets didn't pick until the second round, and number fifty-seven overall, because Billy King traded away what would have been the sixth overall pick to Portland. Their number thirty-five overall pick was surrendered in 2010 to Golden State in the Troy Murphy deal. Don't even talk to me about picking at number forty one either, or whatever. And just for effect, don't forget the pick involved in the Derrick Favors deal. Finally, with Brooklyn's first ever NBA draft opportunity, at 11:48pm they selected a Turkish forward named Ilkan Karaman. There ya go. Pop open the champagne and insert cheers here.
NoLandGrab: BTB was so worked up that he missed the Nets first two picks — they paid cash for Portland's #41 pick and took a KU kid with an attitude problem, and then bought Philadelphia's #54 pick and took a guy from Georgia — the Republic, not the state. They must be looking to appeal to Brooklyn's large Georgian and Turkish communities.
Posted by eric at June 29, 2012 10:00 AM