<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The guilty should be exposed. They are fathers and agents, summer coaches and leaches, handlers and enablers. They are anyone and everyone responsible for what happened Tuesday night -- the most humiliating NBA Draft in history. Every year, a player or two is stunned to slip on NBA Draft night. Rashard Lewis thought he was a first-rounder in 1998. Marcus Taylor thought he would be drafted by someone -- anyone -- in 2002. It's sad, but it happens. It's routine. What happened Tuesday night was not routine. This was obscene. Multiple players with promise -- some collegians, some high school seniors -- were shocked not to be drafted in the first round. Or any round. Players made these decisions, but the people around them deserve scrutiny, too. Someone told Saint Joseph's junior Dwayne Jones that he would be drafted -- perhaps in the first round, definitely in the second. Someone lied. The NBA is already full of post players who can't score. Jones went undrafted, a damper on a draft party that included friends, family and cameras. Someone told high school senior C.J. Miles that he would be drafted in the first round. No perhaps about it, he was a No. 1 draft pick. Someone lied. Miles is skilled, but he's not that skilled. He went in the second round to Utah, and now Miles is considering attending Texas after all. That's what he should have done all along. Only now, it would be after he has sacrificed his chance to become a first-round pick -- and an instant millionaire. Jones has said all along that his adviser has been his father, Dwayne Sr. Miles has been advised by his father, Calvin. Forgive me, son, I know not what I do.</div> Full Story
Dwyane Jones was the biggest surprise to me in this draft going undrafted. He showed a lot of rebounding skill in his time at St. Joes, and to be passed up in the draft by teams needing a big man such as the 76ers was a disgrace. Thankfully, he ca go back to school unlike Walsh another Philadelphia native. Like the article said who ever adviced this kid is a moron, he does not have a quick release to have been a first rounder though thankfully for him he is getting intrest from teams like the Pacers now, and will possibly be on a roster next season. Taft slipping to the 2nd round surprised me some early draft reports had him going from mid to late first round. I am guessing that is what caused him to declare. Other players who really surprised me in not being drafted were guys like Jawad Williams a player with college accomplishments in his record who just weeks before the draft was quoted as saying there were not 30 players better than him in the draft. Guess he was right apparently NBA teams figured there were 60 players better then him. Hopefully he makes a NBA roster must have been hard for him seeing his teammates getting drafted, and him just waiting to hear his name.
