<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Jun 27, 2007 11:56pm ETReport: Blazers to Take Oden No. 1"ESPN The Magazine's Ric Bucher reported on Wednesday night that Greg Oden's camp has been notified by the Portland Trail Blazers that they will take him with the No. 1 pick in Thursday's NBA draft."</div>Not a huge suprise.. it just means that Seattle is now locked their pick with Durant, and Atlanta will have to do some hard thinking at #3.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Mobruler @ Jun 27 2007, 08:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Because all along Atlanta was hoping Durant or Oden would drop. Sorry it had to be said.</div>I meant that they're going to have to think about who's worth that 3rd pick, of course Oden and Durant weren't going to drop, Atlanta still doesn't have a targeted player on their draft board that they know will be worth the pick.
It's kind of easy for Atlanta to make there draft choices.Do you want a young point guard & a young foward, you have the 11th & 5th pick, you can easly obtain what you need and wan't. Do you want to trade one or both of your draft picks to another team for more of a veteran type of player or star, who's preferbly a big man or a guard, whatever the Hawks a look for they can get, by saying all this it just makes it more obvious that there crappy GM Billy Knight will have to not make any stupid mistakes, that's all there is to it basicly.
