Published 6/27/2008
at Yahoo! Sports - NBA News
After years of honing their basketball skills together, Brook and Robin Lopez are going their separate ways in the NBA. The twin 7-footers who starred at Stanford the last two seasons were both first-round draft picks Thursday night, with Brook going 10th overall to New Jersey and Robin 15th to Phoenix.
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