Nuggets Workout Gai & Lekic <div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">DENVER ? The Nuggets worked out two raw foreign-born players on Thursday morning at the Pepsi Center ? Marko Lekic of Serbia and Montenegro and Deng Gai of Fairfield University via the Sudan ? but Denver general manager Kiki Vandeweghe was nowhere to be found. Coincidence? Yes. But that doesn't mean the Nuggets are willing to take the kind of risks on overseas talent that they did three years ago when the franchise used the fifth overall pick on Nikoloz Tskitishvili and made a draft-day deal for Nene, the seventh overall selection. Remember, Amare Stoudemire ? who averaged 37 points in the Western Conference finals at the age of 22 ? was taken ninth by Phoenix in that same draft. Oops. Despite the mistakes of the recent past, NBAdraft.net has the Nuggets selecting Johan Petro, a 7-foot center from France, with their first pick ? No. 20 overall ? in the Web site's latest mock draft. Scouts believe Lekic (6-11) or Gai (6-9) will be second-round picks if they are drafted at all. "I don't know anything," Lekic said when asked about his expectations for the draft and the Nuggets' interest in him. Gai said he doesn't expect to make an impact in the NBA for two or three years, but the game is in his blood. His cousin is Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng, the seventh pick in the 2004 draft, and his uncle is legendary center Manute Bol. </div> Source
