Archive - May 2009

Updated Top 50 Value Board

Like Ron Artest holding the ball for twenty seconds before hoisting up and connecting on a highly contested three pointer, the HD Top 50 Value Rankings makes it’s random, hectic and unexpectedly satisfying return, just in time for the Conference Finals.

1984. 1996. 2003.

These are the classes by which all drafts will be measured, and while there is no way to know how the Class of 2008 will turn out, their first season suggests a future bright enough to garner a comparison.

1984

This year's Predraft camp has been scaled back to just a combine with limited team representation expected. The combine will take place May 28-29 in Chicago. Here is the list of 52 invitees for measurements and athleticism drills:

Jeff Adrien Connecticut
Rodrigue Beaubois Cholet (France)
DeJuan Blair Pittsburgh
Jon Brockman Washington

The teams entered in the lottery, to be held on May 19th, are as follows (note: the first three picks in the draft will be determined by the lottery and the remainder of the "lottery teams" will select in positions 4 through 14 in their listed order)

Odds shown are for the top overall pick:

With the draft lottery less than a week away, it's time to reasses the Big Board (top 100 prospects) for the 2009 NBA draft.

A number of players who had declared for the draft already announced they will return to school (SEC stars Patrick Patterson, Jarvis Varnado and Michael Washington).