My last minute draft wants using pick #25 with only moderate research: 1) Bazley 2) Kabengele 3) Okpala I find several others interesting, and I'll do more research after I find out what happened draft night.
We need to find a Draymond Green type player to help this team then trade for a SF who can handle the ball.
I'm guessing in this thread: http://www.sportstwo.com/threads/blazers-uprise-2019-nba-draft-livestream-ft-hoopsjock.345511/
My grumpy comment of the day. I would love to see 2 mock drafts side-by-side. One based on hypothetical upside and the other on actual on court performance. Fast forward 3 years, and see which more accurately reflects NBA success. Sneer if you want, but looking at this draft I see a number of "low upside" guys (EG Cam Johnson, Grant Williams, Thybulle) who are going to get drafted late and have a good chance of out-performing the "projects" drafted ahead of them. It would be different in a draft with a deeper talent pool, but everyone admits this draft is very top-heavy. A lot of teams are going to wind up wasting picks on the next Meyers Leonard reaching for "high upside" that just isn't there! I will now get off my soapbox.
You missed the future 2nd too. Edit: With how many future 2nds we already owe, I'm guessing we're trying to get one for just cash.
I think you need to address this issue from the standpoint of classism, not racism....poor kids from rural farmlands have the same issue as many urban kids...rich exploit the poor for capitalistic gain in every walk of society....from Native americans to Asians, to Caucasians to Latinos to African americans, etc......the line in the sand will disappear when we all stop fucking drawing it over and over......I promise you Scottie Pippen was glad to leave childhood poverty in Arkansas just like Meyers Leonard was glad to leave poverty in Indiana.....and both young men showed gratitude and succeeded from that system. I read you call people yours and mine in a post you made.....you should really just rethink that bubble....we need as a people to start changing these ideas that continue to prop segregation up and not be inclusive...which is the goal of freedom to begin with....inclusion. Racism in many cases is used as a distraction from classism.....haves and have nots....as far as white racists...whenever that rears it's ugly head it should be heckled without mercy but career paths have nothing to do with that. African Americans have risen to the top of almost every entertainment field in the country from Opera to figure skating.....the world in my lifetime has changed drastically....we both have children....that's our responsibility...to teach them better....being angry at someone here in the forum about being "white" or saying they could not possibly understand racism is in my view...pretty shallow my friend...the military is filled with people of every color who joined to improve their circumstance and better their situation...get an education...etc...during the draft the poor were numbered lower than the wealthy....if you had ways and means you could avoid the draft
