Atlanta Hawks: Draft mockery (UPDATE: Hawks trade with Nets, get Crawford)
UPDATE: The Hawks selected Texas forward Damion James with the No. 24 pick and traded him to the Nets for the second of their first-round picks (No. 27 overall) and their second-round pick (No. 31). The Nets selected Jordan Crawford for the Hawks at No. 31.
More updates later. . . .
I scoured the Interwebs to find some mock drafts for your consumption. This is also the place for my blog people to talk amongst yourselves as the night unfolds. I’ll be holed up at Centennial Tower waiting for the Hawks’ decision-makers to pick their guys before emerging to explain themselves, but I will checking in on your comments.
So think positive thoughts and hope your Hawks buck recent trends and find a gem late in the first round. . . .
MC
DraftExpress.com: Dominique Jones
NBAdraft.net: Hassan Whiteside
Ian Thomsen, SI.com: Jordan Crawford
Sean Deveney, Sporting News: Jordan Crawford
Chad Ford, ESPN.com (Insider): Lance Stephenson
Dime Magazine: Lance Stephenson
FanHouse: Larry Sanders
Bret LaGree, Hoopinion: Larry Sanders
InsideHoops.com: Daniel Orton
NBA Draft Room: Elliot Williams
Mike McGraw, Sports XChange: Terrico White
Sports Agent Blog: Quincy Pondexter
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cp
June 24th, 2010
10:36 pm
And there goes Whiteside smh
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
10:36 pm
“… you call him a risk/reward player, but in the second round, he’s all reward.”
–Jay Bilas, on Hassan Whiteside.
Get that, DASG and Rick Sund? Second round picks have NO RISK TIED TO THEM.
Fresh
June 24th, 2010
10:37 pm
SMH just SMDH!!
glenn
June 24th, 2010
10:37 pm
That should be our project right there . I hate the Hawks ……. I wish I hated Hawks . I stayed up for this ?
STEEL (Formerly VenomSpitter)
June 24th, 2010
10:37 pm
freshd Wtf are u talking about. What great big man are u talking about?
dap01
June 24th, 2010
10:37 pm
We dont want a 7 footer, we want a 6 foot 9 forward. Please someone explain this idiotic move to me.
O'Brien
June 24th, 2010
10:38 pm
And the ASG and Gearon complain about fans coming out to support the team…
truthspitter
June 24th, 2010
10:39 pm
The Hawks deserve to be losers. I will cheer for JJ somewhere else next year, this is the biggest disaster ever. Sund I hope a poison snake bites you in your ass
Big Ray
June 24th, 2010
10:39 pm
I’m disgusted. This reeks of ASG, and I won’t believe otherwise unless we pick up an american player WITH SIZE at #53.
Instead, we’ll probably draft some guy whose name we can’t pronounce, won’t even have Youtube footage, and will never be seen on the North American continent.
Zone 6
June 24th, 2010
10:40 pm
Dont tell me Jordan Crawford is supposed to be JJ’s immediate replacement, as we know JJ is going on to greener pastures with a contending team as a 2nd or 3rd option like he should be in the first place.
glenn
June 24th, 2010
10:40 pm
A made for adults movie with Tom Cruise & Cameron Diaz ? Thats stranger than the Hawks ?
jhan
June 24th, 2010
10:40 pm
Sounds like Memphis is broke too!
Hawk n the Ham
June 24th, 2010
10:41 pm
I’m glad I started drinking earlier.
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
10:41 pm
I normally don’t get too bent out of shape about second-round picks, but when you have the first pick in the second round, that’s basically a free late first-rounder. Like I said, there’s no risk tied to that pick. It’s not like you are stuck paying him for several years if he turns out to be a dud. Maybe none of these big men pan out, but what do you lose by drafting someone and giving him a shot?
Tibor Pleiss wouldn’t have been higher than my 5th or 6th choice, definitely not over Whiteside or Pittman, but sh-t, at least bring him into training camp and give him a shot. Trading him for cash pretty much confirms all the accusations of cheapness that the fan base throws at the ownership.
Big Ray
June 24th, 2010
10:41 pm
Mavs just got Dominique Jones for cash from the Grizzlies, I think it was….
Najeh
We sold the pick. For cash that we won’t use in free agency.
JeJe
June 24th, 2010
10:41 pm
Great trade by Sund. Why get a project big? Do u people really want another Solo?
Resign Joe Smith, RandMo, and J. Collins. They are all seasoned (2 of them are) and they cost NOTHING. Resign our VETS for NOTHING and let Drew implement Collins as appropriate. He obviously can be utilized better than our previous coach…Whatever his name was…..
FIRE WOODY
STEEL (Formerly VenomSpitter)
June 24th, 2010
10:41 pm
The crowd at a Hawks game is gonna look like the crowd for an Atlanta Dream game next year.
Terrell
June 24th, 2010
10:41 pm
Jerome Jordan is still out there so who knows? He’s bigger than so of the other prospects you all wanted and he’s more pro ready now which is what we need.
Zone 6
June 24th, 2010
10:42 pm
no worries guys, Larry Drew has a system the NBA hasnt came CLOSE to seeing yet, he said it himself. 50 wins minimum LOL.
Big Ray
June 24th, 2010
10:43 pm
Najeh,
Co-sign. And I won’t believe otherwise unless we pick up a guy at #53. And I mean an american, not some “stash and forget” guy from another country. We never get any use out of that. The most we got so far was cash for David Andersen, and we didn’t even use it.
Terrell
June 24th, 2010
10:43 pm
What you all fail to realize is that the trade for cash can be used to try to resign JJ or even get another role player in free agency
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
10:44 pm
I wonder if Tiny Gallon will drop to #53.
BobWeiss
June 24th, 2010
10:44 pm
This team needs a real owner that doesn’t put the bottom line over talent. If this worthless ownership group wasn’t so cheap, we could have at least drafted a Euro player to stash away for a few years. What a complete joke.
Mystikal
June 24th, 2010
10:44 pm
SOMEONE PLEASE FILL ME IN WHAT JUST HAPPENED???????
Big Ray
June 24th, 2010
10:45 pm
I’ll take back any “cheap” comments if the Hawks make a solid move on a big man (a successful one, that is) in free agency. Until then, the “cheap” sticker remains. Sorry…
Jerome Jordan, Jarvis Varnado, Solomon Alabi (I don’t like it, but what the hell) still on the board…but still nearly twenty picks before we do…
Grandad
June 24th, 2010
10:45 pm
Well I’ll be Dawg-gone.
I had Tibor nailed
&
now this.
1st James = okay
then
the trade = hot dang Dawg !
Then my boy Teebore Plice
$ sold $
I’m out, may not be back.
I can’t take it any more.
Nooooo!!!!!
June 24th, 2010
10:45 pm
Hassan Whiteside, Dexter Pittman, Devin Ebanks, and Darrington Hobson AND YOU SELL TH FREAKING 1ST PICK OF THE SECOND ROUND??? JUST WHEN I THOUGHT THEY COULDN’T GET ANY DUMBER FASG!!!!!
Big Ray
June 24th, 2010
10:45 pm
Najeh,
Good thought. Hope Sund and his minion share it…
mykhalc
June 24th, 2010
10:45 pm
once we all realize we truly are watchin’ a comedy-sitcom, it doesn’t hurt as much!!!!
MsDee
June 24th, 2010
10:46 pm
We got cash for a pick we wouldnt use..I wanted Whiteside or Jerome but maybe they didnt look good enough in workouts to be with us so we got cash for them..thats not a bad idea..that cash may come in handy to bring someone over..and remember u guys, Siler is still out there..hopefully Sund has something up his sleave where a center is concern.
glenn
June 24th, 2010
10:46 pm
What ? The money got for the 31st pick is less than JJ’s drapes are worth .
Neki Ecko
June 24th, 2010
10:46 pm
Maybe that rumor trade about Hawks/Wizards might be true that Chill will be going to Wizards and we pick up Mckee(?)
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
10:46 pm
“What you all fail to realize is that the trade for cash can be used to try to resign JJ or even get another role player in free agency”
“Can be used” and “will be used” are two different things. How much cash do you really think they got for that pick? Pleiss will make around $550,000 if he makes the OKC roster this year.
STEEL (Formerly VenomSpitter)
June 24th, 2010
10:46 pm
The Hawks must like losing fans
RaJaH
June 24th, 2010
10:47 pm
Trust me…that pick had nothing to do with JJ
Hawk n the Ham
June 24th, 2010
10:47 pm
FAIL = Rick Sund
Nooooo!!!!!
June 24th, 2010
10:47 pm
Rick better be cooking something up. You don’t just WASTE a pick like that. I want some damn answers NOW!!!!!
Zone 6
June 24th, 2010
10:47 pm
Several Eastern Conf. teams that were worse than the Hawks last year will be better this year because of the “class of 2010″ …The Hawks Ownership knows this and is planning for a season where they are more comfortable, battling it out for a 7th-8th seed and a first round exit.
Nooooo!!!!!
June 24th, 2010
10:48 pm
Al Horford is somwhere crying right now…
STEEL (Formerly VenomSpitter)
June 24th, 2010
10:48 pm
The Hawks will avg 11,000 fans next season.
STEEL (Formerly VenomSpitter)
June 24th, 2010
10:49 pm
The Hawks players are probably watching this saying “wtf just happened”
Najeh Davenpoop
June 24th, 2010
10:50 pm
“SOMEONE PLEASE FILL ME IN WHAT JUST HAPPENED???????”
Hawks picked Texas F Damion James with their original #24 pick. They moved it to the Nets for the #27 (first round) and the #31 (second round). They picked Jordan Crawford with the #27 and Tibor Pleiss with the #31. They sold Pleiss’ rights to the Thunder for cash.
jp
June 24th, 2010
10:50 pm
wow I can’t believe the Hawks have any fans at all, this is terrible
Hawk n the Ham
June 24th, 2010
10:50 pm
That dang 7 foot 16 year old German could have been picked at #53. Not the 1st pick in the 2nd round!
Sund = Dingleberry
MsDee
June 24th, 2010
10:50 pm
Yall keep yelling how Sund and the ASG are dumb for not getting Whiteside, Jerome, or Solomon Alabi, but as yall see, noone else is picking them either..they probably made a great idea 4 not getting them,,we dont know how good or how bad the looked in workouts.
O'Brien
June 24th, 2010
10:51 pm
If I’m the Hawks, I’m trading the #53 pick and one of the second round picks from next year to move up in this round.
Varnado and Jerome Jordan are still there. i would like to see us get one of those guys. I am even okay with Lawal if he is there at #53.
RICK SUND
June 24th, 2010
10:51 pm
atlanta-hawks-draft-mockery
dap01
June 24th, 2010
10:51 pm
The Hawks just lost this fan.
x-Mac-Town-x (West Macon's Finezt)
June 24th, 2010
10:52 pm
I refuse to believe the front office can be this dumb, AGAIN. There has to be something DEEP down in the bag of tricks….right???
Neki Ecko
June 24th, 2010
10:52 pm
and there is more good news!!!
CP3 might be traded to Orlando for Nelson and Carter. Oh Joy