<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">Suspicious eyes noted the absence of several candidates for this month's draft at last week's predraft camp in Orlando. The conclusion: These lads must have guarantees from teams picking in the first round and decided to blow it off. Among the missing were early-entry candidates Sean Williams of Boston College (sort of), Arizona's Marcus Williams, LSU's Glen "Big Baby" Davis, UCLA's Aaron Afflalo, and Southern Cal's Gabe Pruitt. Two other seniors who took the same route were Morris Almond of Rice and Alando Tucker of Wisconsin. Add those seven to the 19 "physicals only" guys who showed up, and that should account for 26 of the 30 first-round picks. Throw in three potential Euros -- Tiago Splitter, Rudy Fernandez, and Marco Belinelli -- and the first round could be pretty well set. The Celtics saw several individuals they thought would be available at No. 32 for their second-round pick.</div> Boston Globe
