Dr. Giganto

so, the NBA draft was last night, and it was dominated by high-schoolers and foreign players. When will NBA management learn that for every LeBron James, there are 5 Kwame Browns??? And for every Dirk Nowitzki there are 10 Nikoloz Tshkivithvili's???

High schoolers went 1st, 4th, 12th, 13th, 15th, 17th, 18th, and 19th

Foreign players went 11th, 21st, 22nd, 23rd, 27th, 28th, 30th, 32nd, 39th, 42nd, 46th, 49th, 50th, 51st, and 57th.

That means that 14 of the 29 first round picks (nearly 50%) were high-schoolers or foreigners, and 23 out of 59 overall

Pavel Podkolzine, who was taken 21st overall averaged 2.6 points per game and 2.3 rebounds per game, playing in Europe...AND HE'S 7'5!!!!! You mean to tell me that there were no college-aged American players who could put up 3 points and 2 rebounds in Europe? :roll:

Here are all the high school players drafted in the first round the last 5 years:

LeBron James, Travis Outlaw, Ndubi Ebi, Kendrick Perkins, Amare Stoudamire, Qyntel Woods, Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry, DeSagana Diop, Kedrick Brown, Darius Miles, DeShawn Stevenson, Jonathon Bender, Leon Smith

Take away LeBron, Amare Stoudamire, and maybe Jonathon Bender and Darius Miles, and what do they all have in common? They all SUCK

Here are all the foreign players taken the last 5 years in the first round:

Aleksandar Radojevic, Frederic Weis, Andrei Kirilenko, Darko Milicic, Mickael Pietrus, Zarko Cabarkapa, Aleksandar Pavlovic, Boris Diaw-Riffiod, Zoran Planinic, Carlos Delfino, Leandrinho Barbosa, Yao Ming, Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Nene Hilario, Bostjan Nachbar, Jiri Welsch, Nenad Krstic, Pau Gasol, Vladimir Radmanovic, Raul Lopez, Tony Parker, Hedo Turkoglu, Dalibor Bagaric, Iakovos Tsakalidis, and Primoz Brezec

Kirilenko, Yao, Nene, Gasol, Parker, and Turkoglu are good...but the rest of these guys are chumps.

Who were the best rookies last year: LeBron (a once-in-a-generation thing. He goes beyond all conventional thought), Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kirk Hinrich, Josh Howard, TJ Ford and Luke Walton. What do they all (except LeBron) have in common? They all played American college basketball