Tonight was the NBA draft, a time of great hope and opportunity–unless you’re a Heat or a Knicks fan in which you know, respectively, the GM gives little value to draft picks or know your team will trade away the player they draft just as that player gets good. I would be the latter. I watch the Knicks draft in order to see who is going to be good on someone else’s team. Ask Lebron about that one. He had two Knicks starters–starters from THIS SEASON on his squad at the finals…
The Knicks thing kicked in immediately as they traded away 2013’s #24 pick for this year’s #19. Goodbye Tim Hardaway Jr. You were just starting to get good. That makes three starting guards dumped by the Knicks in the past 8 months. The #19 pick wound up being another guard who will probably find his skill set properly exploited in another offense–maybe Phoenix.
Some Thoughts:
- Fans of the Wayward Pines books will be deeply disappointed by the TV show. There are too many reasons to list. I mean, the stuff is not nearly as tightly woven and on message as the book. They should’ve done better for a mini-series.