Let the Rumors Begin

[pegs]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (NetsDaily)</div><div class='quotemain'>With the draft only a week away, rumors of guarantees and trades proliferate. Draft Express has Danilo Gallinari going at #6 to the Knicks and Robin Lopez (no, not Brook) going to the Nets at #10. Lopez has reportedly cancelled several workouts. Chad Ford has the Nets dangling Richard Jefferson to get “a star” higher in the draft and/or cap space for 2010.</div>

Word on the Street: Who's Moving Up or Down? - Jonathan Givony - Draft Express

Draft Watch: Trade talk heating up - NBA - Chad Ford - ESPN

That just seems like a really, really bad joke. Why would we reach for a scrub in Robin Lopez, at 10? That's ridiculous.

 

[GMJ]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Another player who could crash the lottery unexpectedly and even shockingly go just one spot below his twin brother is Stanford center Robin Lopez. Lopez reportedly canceled all his remaining workouts (with the Pacers, Kings, Sixers, and more) with a supposed ?€œsprained ankle?€? after working out for the New Jersey Nets this past week. Although the tenth pick is widely believed to be Danilo Gallinari?€™s, no one would know better about where the Italian small forward will get drafted than his agent Arn Tellem, who also happens to represent the Lopez twins. Robin being promised to go tenth (a speculatory rumor that is definitely making the rounds) almost surely means that Gallinari is going sixth to the Knicks.</div>

Draft Express

These rumors are making me increasingly more worried about f****** up draft night, but what's keeping me from jumping off the Izod Center is remembering that Thron and Wiki expressed their desire to use all 3 draft picks.

(But Jigga, those could have just been smoke screens!)

GERONIMOOOOOOOOO!!!