freep.com - 6/27/2008
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The Pistons just drafted a narcoleptic, academically suspect, unknown player from a mid-major conference who was arrested less than a year ago. What's not to love? Let's face it: Until his name was announced Thursday night, you didn't know anything about Walter Sharpe. I'll fill you in on a few details: Yes, he really has struggled with narcolepsy. He was academically ineligible last semester, ...
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Around the Hall: NBA Draft reaction
Inside the Hall | An Indiana Hoosiers basketball blog —
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Clippers select Eric Gordon (Clippers.com)
IU’s Eric Gordon picked 7th by LA Clippers (Indianapolis Star)
Gordon goes to L.A., but won’t go Hollywood (Indianaplis Star)
Clippers get their man in Gordon (Pasadena Star-News)
Pistons deal White to Sonics (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
The “D.J. White is a Piston” post (Detroit Bad Boys)
Don’t assume Pistons blew their draft (Detroit Free Press)
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The Pistons Pick Up A Sleeper In The Draft...Literally
Need4Sheed.com —
... picked D.J. White I had a bit of a smile on my face. However my smile didn't last very long when word came down that Detroit handed over the rights to White for two later picks from Seattle.
So like most of you I waited...and waited for Detroit to pick Chris-Douglas Roberts the other top prospects that were still on the board and apparently players that Detroit had interest in. Instead Dumars picks Walter Sharpe. Who?
The skinny on Sharpe: Via Michael Rosenberg from The Detroit Free Press
"Yes, he really has struggled with ...
Did the Pistons blow the NBA draft?
Full-Court Press - A Detroit Pistons Blog —
That's a question a lot of Piston fans are asking themselves this morning. Michael Rosenberg of the Detroit Free Press writes that assuming that Joe Dumars blew the NBA draft Thursday night may be a mistake. June 27, Detroit Free Press: ...
Worst. Draft. Ever.
We Suck at Sports —
The jokes for this draft write themselves. I mean seriously, do I really need to try to make up something funny, when this dastardly basketball killer to your right from UIPUI was picked in the first round? It's as if roughly after the lottery, every GM had a stroke at the same time, and let their kids pick people whose "name sounded funny". It was a contest of one-uppery of retardation one pick after another well into the night. Half the people picked in the first round were second round talent.
And let me say this: for a while there I thought Darrell Arthur was going to be taught to drive a truck by his mom for the rest of his life. Ma and ...
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bulletsforever.com 6/27/2008 — Walter Sharpe has been getting a lot of attention lately...especially after getting drafted with the 2nd overall pick in the 2nd round of the 2008 NBA Draft.
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But the kid has a sketchy background to overcome.......can he put the past behind him like Caron Butler has?
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Haven't been able to substantiate this morning's rumor that the Wiz (18) and Rockets (25) want to swap picks but from the chatting I've done, it's clear that Ernie Grunfeld is open to moving down into the later part of the first round if he can find a ...
