NBA Draft Lottery Projections Update

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If the NBA draft was held today, that's today, these
would be the chosen few....

1. Eddie Griffin: Needs to play better against better
teams to hold this positiion.

2. Yao Ming: Vancouver and their sizeable Asian
population has the Jones for him.

3. Zach Randolph: Coming on strong.

4. Jason Williams: A franchise point guard?

5. Brendan Haywood: North Carolina mystique.

6. DeSagana Diop: First high school center taken.

7. Eddy Curry: Two words: Jenny Craig.

8. Troy Murphy: The most NBA ready of the
undergraduates.

9. Michael Bradley: McHale/Laettner hybrid.

10. Joseph Forte: You can never go wrong with a
Tarheel shooting guard.

11. Loren Woods: Slipping....

12. Tyson Chandler:  On the all Moiso team.

13. Shane Battier: A steal here.


Still out there and ready to surge back into the
limelight: Omar Cook, Terence Morris, Dan Gadzuric,
Shane Battier, Gerald Wallace, Kwame Brown,
Jamaal Tinsley, Jeryl Sasser, Frank Williams,
Carlos Boozer, Darius Rice, Tamar Slay, Brian
Scalabrine, Ousmane Cisse, Joe Johnson,
Kenny Satterfield....