columbian.com - 6/22/2009
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TUALATIN, Ore. The last two NBA Drafts have taught Nate McMillan to place his trust in the Portland Trail Blazers scout team. At times, the Blazers coach has only seen video footage of players the team has selected. Other times, he has relied mostly on reputation because players could not come ...
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sports.yahoo.com - 6/24/2009
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With the NBA Draft just a day away,
Ball Don't Lie has decided to weigh in with...
its own 2009 Mock Draft. But since we know so little about college basketball, we called in SB Nation's team experts (and a few others) to throw their darts at the ...
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BDL 2009 NBA Mock Draft: Pick No. 24, Blazers
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... "I never even saw him drink a beer. I don't know if it was a one-time deal, but I know I was with him for a couple months and never heard anything about drugs," McMillan explained.
"To this day, I haven't really heard that he was abusing drugs. Normally you would hear something. I never heard that. He loved the game. He was all about basketball. To hear what happened, it was a total shock."
Brian Hendrickson lays out Nate McMillan's hands-off draft approach.
So when Portland drafts in that same ...
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... to say whether he'll be in the Rose City July 1 for a recruiting trip. "I haven't discussed it," Lee said. Portland likely has to work out a sign-and-trade with the Knicks to get the 6-foot-9 power forward. Lee is expected to command between $7-10 million per year on an offer sheet, which the Knicks can match. If he gets an offer sheet at the spectrum's high end, Donnie Walsh is prepared to trade Lee or let him go with the idea of preserving 2010 cap space. Brian Hendrickson on the Blazers' European scouting and the draft: Blazers officials say that string of successes has ...
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