detroitbadboys.com - 6/27/2008
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That was … interesting. I don’t think anyone outside of 5 Championship Drive thought last night would go the way it did, passing on guys like Chris Douglas-Roberts, Mario Chalmers, DeAndre Jordan, Joey Dorsey and Nathan Jawai twice (and Bill Walker three times!). DBB reader Fuj summed up my feelings , and I’m guessing many of yours:
I thought Joe fleeced everyone when we ...
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NetsDaily: "Make no mistake about it, tonight's moves were as critical to the Nets' future as those at the trade deadline when Jason Kidd was traded. In one aspect, this was opening night for the Brooklyn Nets...the team started making real plans for the 2010-11 season in the Barclays Center, a building yet to rise above the Atlantic Yards. The Nets went young, they went big, they went with skill over athleticism but most of all, they divorced themselves from the recent (New Jersey) past and started to get way under the cap. Ryan Anderson becomes the youngest Net in a quarter century. Brook Lopez is the second youngest since Clifford Robinson (the USC Robinson, not Uncle Cliffy) played ...
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