The NBA Draft Combine hits Chicago next week. It’s the most…..wonderful…..time……of the year!!!!!!! Ok, not really. But it’s still a pretty cool event. Most likely everyone who’s going to get picked in the NBA Draft comes to the Second City for workouts with NBA scouts and interviews with the media.
The invite list did not include the Gophers’ Rodney Williams (that’s fine, he really shouldn’t be picked anyway), Florida State’s Michael Snaer (surprising, I mean someone in the NBA has to play defense at some point), Alex Oriakhi (take it or leave it), Marquette’s Vander Blue (we’re very surprised) and Elias Harris of Gonzaga.
Like the late Nate Dogg said: “I don’t want to dream about getting paid,” and pretty soon these gentlemen won’t have to.
Here’s the NBA Draft combine list. Quoting Ludacris “big paper like pancakes stacking ’em up” for these guys.
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Lorenzo Brown
Reggie Bullock
Trey Burke: some mocks have him going #1 overall??
Kentavious Caldwell-Pope
Isaiah Canaan
Jackie Carmichael
Michael Carter-Williams
Allen Crabbe
Seth Curry
Brandon Davies (“honor codes” don’t exist in the NBA)
Dewayne Dedmon
Gorgui Dieng
James Ennis
Carrick Felix
Jamaal Franklin
Rudy Gobert
Archie Goodwin
Erick Green
Tim Hardaway Jr.
Solomon Hill
Richard Howell
Colton Iverson
Pierre Jackson
Grant Jerrett
Myck Kabongo
Kenny Kadji
Ryan Kelly
Shane Larkin (Imagine what DePaul could have done with this guy)
Ricky Ledo
Alex Len
C.J. Leslie
Trevor Mbakwe (tough defender/rebounders are always in high demand)
Ray McCallum
C.J. McCollum
Ben McLemore (Rock Chalk the #1 pick?)
Tony Mitchell
Shabazz Muhammad
Erik Murphy
Mike Muscala
Nerlens Noel
Victor Oladipo
Kelly Olynyk
Brandon Paul (Bruce Weber devalued his NBA Draft stock; John Groce improved it)
Novel Pelle
Mason Plumlee (We’re all sick of Plumlees right? The Kardashians of college basketball?)
Otto Porter
Phil Pressey
Glen Rice Jr. (Is this a NBA Draft or a NASCAR starting line with all these legacies?)
Andre Roberson
Dennis Schoeder
Peyton Siva
Tony Snell
James Southerland
Adonis Thomas
Deshaun Thomas (You can call him Eshaun, no “D”)
Jeff Withey
Nate Wolters
B.J. Young
Cody Zeller (stock price may have dipped, but this is probably the right year for him to come out)
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