Below is the full list of the players we have worked out (excluding those who have pulled out), with those who I feel we'll look closely at with the 12 in colour: Curtis Allen Tony Allen: <font color="DarkRed">Rafael Araujo:</font> Trevor Ariza <font color="DarkRed">Andris Biedrins</font> Kyle Davis Miah Davis Andre Emmett Matt Freije David Harrison Delonte Holland <font color="DarkGreen">Kris Humphries</font> <font color="DarkGreen">Luke Jackson</font> <font color="DarkRed">Al Jefferson</font> Arthur Johnson Andre Joseph Viktor Khryapa Marcus Moore Michel Morandais Adam Parada Rickey Paulding <font color="DarkRed">Pavel Podkolzine</font> <font color="DarkRed">Peter John Ramos</font> Jared Reiner Bernard Robinson Donta Smith <font color="DarkRed">Josh Smith</font> <font color="DarkRed">JR Smith</font> <font color="DarkGreen">Kirk Snyder</font> Pape Snow Anderson Varejao Jackson Vroman David Young <font color="DarkGreen">Strong Chance.</font> <font color="DarkRed">Outside Chance.</font> Feel free to give your own opinions!
12 is a good spot. Very good chance that someone who we've previously had mid-lotto slips to our position. Come draft night, we'll have a lot of options... if we take the right one, I'll have no choice but to be pleased. Whoever we select will have my full support to become the GOAT. Having said this, draft Al Jefferson.
Nate McMillan likes Tony Allen too, reckons he is ready to contribute right away and my guess is we'll probably look to take him at 36, in the likely scenario he's around. With all this talk of guards, surely there must be a trade in the works. Either that or we think Collison will become a 20/10 player, which I highly doubt.
Oh my god I am so colorblind, I cant tell red from green.. haha I want a big man, any big man! If we are able to nab Pavel though, that is some serious trade bait that the Mavericks would kill for.. Man all this talk of Tmac to the Rockets is making me wish our Sonics would do something too..
<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">While Portland acquired an additional first-round pick and trade talk swirled around the NBA, the Sonics gave no impression during yesterday's predraft media session that they are going to part with the No. 12 pick. Team officials, which included general manager Rick Sund and coach Nate McMillan, were also vague about whom they plan to pick. Seattle's needs have been identified at center, but Sund and McMillan said that the big men in the draft likely won't provide immediate help. Perhaps David Pendergraft, the team's director of player personnel, made the most interesting observations during the hour-long session when asked which players he'd have difficulty passing on. In order, Pendergraft listed Colorado center David Harrison, Puerto Rican center Peter John Ramos, Nevada guard Kirk Snyder and Minnesota forward Kris Humphries.</div> <font size="1">Full Story courtesy of Dwayne Casey and the Seattle Times.</font> Not Harrison, please not Harrison. Even if we trade down (which we'd have to, as he's a mid-to-late first rounder at best), I don't want this guy on our roster. He may be academically intelligent, but he is a whiner and very immature. His intense hatred for Kansas makes things interesting too, given he brawled with Collison on court (I think in Nick's senior year). Could be a smokescreen I guess, but Snyder is the only guy from those named I could possibly see going above 12, and that's a stretch.
