Well after digesting all the freakishly long athletes in the draft, it’s time to run down the worldwide leader’s performance, specifically Jay Bilas, who has plenty of upside.

I went ahead and tallied up all the times Bilas either said “Athlete/Athletic/Athleticism, Long or Length, or Freak”.  We definitely got treated to the grand prize “Freakishly Long Athlete”.  Here are the final numbers, and this was only through the lottery!:

Athlete/Athletic/Athleticism: 14 times

Long/Length: 7 times

Freak: 3 times

Here are some other Highlights of an eventful Thursday night…..

• O.J. Mayo’s suit: A terrific 3 piece suit. His outstanding eyewear and 2 tone dress shoes almost made me forget the fact that his high school agent probably gave him money for his apparel.
• Danilo Gallinari’s nickname: “The Rooster”. Or as my boss (a Knicks fan) calls him, The C*ck. Judging from the crowd’s reaction, I’d call him the “Booooooooo-ster”. The thing I liked most about him was Fran Fraschilla’s breakdown of him: “If you give him a couple years, I think he’ll be good”. Ladies and gentlemen, your New York Knickerbockers.
• Eric Gordon’s suit: The 7th pick of the draft, Gordon was wearing a white jacket with black pants. He looked like a waiter coming over to serve wine tableside. Also, my buddy Tas mentions that he looks like he’s 12. I guess the Clippers are a little lax on the child labor laws.
• 8:26 pm: Charlotte selects D.J. Augustin with the 9th pick. ESPN shows a quick shot of D.J., then pans immediately to Brook Lopez who is……crying? I honestly have never seen a draftee cry out of sadness, and not happiness. Thankfully, Brook gathered himself enough to walk on stage after the Nets immediately snatched him up with pick 10.
• 8:44 pm: Stuart Scott makes a horrible joke. The awesome part: it falls completely flat. Not one other panelist even smiles. I got a kick out of this.
• 9:03 pm: David Stern’s voice cracks announcing that the Sixers select Mar-EEEse Speights. High comedy for a man that is allowing the Sonics to be ripped out of Seattle.
• The amount of obligatory “Let’s show the last poor sap left in the Green Room, AKA the Rashard Lewis Memorial Winner (thanks BSG)” clips. I counted 7 shots on him, with one interview. The worst part is Andy Katz and Ric Bucher talking about a semi-confidential condition on Nat’l TV, and on the arena’s PA system. Um, hello… Darrell can hear everything you’re saying!

My draft winners and losers:

Winners:

1.  Portland.  They got the perfect point guard to go with their already stacked young team.

2.  Minnesota.  After picking up OJ Mayo, they spun him to Memphis for Mike Miller and Kevin Love, effectively ending Memphis’ Gay-Love Era.  McHale’s army also got rid of Jaric’s contract.  Great job by the T-Wolves.

Loser:

1.  Charlotte.  Michael strikes again.  He picks up an undersized point guard at #9, when he needed front court help.  Then he gets from court help from the likes of Alexis Aljinca?  Alexis only averaged 5 and 5 in the French league last year and is “years” away from contributing if he ever does develop…

Until next year, keep reading our freakishly long athletic articles with great upside and potential on www.ondeckfantasy.com. 

Whats up everyone? My name is Shawn Leite, I’m from Lowell and currently go to Rivier College. Dan Dumont asked me to write so I am. My writing experiences go back to writing for LHS for 2yrs, Lowell Sun, MCC paper, and now this site. I started off writing only sports but this past 4-6months ive been doing alot of movie reviews for a course I took.

Sports is big with my family and I, its what brings us together most of the times, and writing is something Im into and hopefully can make a career and life out of it.

Most likely will be contributing to this site about 4-5 times a week unless no one reads my stuff……I hope it doesn’t.

So everyone be safe, good, and healthy tonight and watch the C’s go 1-0 over L.A.

BEAT L.A.!!!

BEAT L.A.!!!

BEAT L.A.!!!

Shawn Leite…………….