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Highlights from Bill Simmons draft diary – check out the whole thing out at http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=simmons/100625

My big concern: Does anyone else worry that Avery Johnson could single-handedly turn Favors into Kwame Brown 2.0 just by screaming at him in a squeaky voice for eight straight months?

Our featured speaker for “Atrocious GM Summit II” next February, the one, the only, David Kahn! He’s giving a lecture titled “How To Drive A Potential Franchise Guy To Europe For Three Years, Pass On Stephen Curry For An Undersized Point Guard Who Can’t Guard Anyone, Then Convince Your Fans That Everything’s Fine.” We’re delighted to have him.

I wish the Stern/Cousins handshake could have lasted for 25 minutes. Stern sized him up the way a lion looks at a potentially troublesome cub. That was great.

Here come the Clippers at No. 8! Whose ACL is getting blown out this year??? And it’s … Al-Farouq Aminu, the Wake Forest forward who kinda looks like Urkel. He sure seems happy for someone who’s about to end up in a full-body cast

So Chicago traded No. 17 to Washington with Kirk Hinrich in return for the cap space to pursue LeBron and Bosh. This was funny because just four months ago the Knicks traded Jordan Hill (last year’s No. 8 pick) and their 2012 No. 1, and agreed to swap No. 1s with Houston in 2011 so the Rockets would take Jared Jeffries off their hands (who makes less money than Hinrich, by the way) so they could also pursue LeBron and Bosh. Might be time to take Donnie Walsh to the GM vet and put him down.

Bledsoe’s off the board. Damn. OKC just took him. Typically smart move by them. I’m starting to hate Sam Presti. Make a mistake already, Sam. If there were 30 GMs like you, I’d have nothing to write about.

OKC traded the rights to Bledsoe to the Clippers for a future No. 1 because of the “any time you can trade for a future No. 1 from the Clips, you have to do it” rule. It’s just the rule.

This is why they don’t allow me on studio shows — because I absolutely would have made the “If the NBA doesn’t work out for Oden, he can always go into porn … I mean, did you SEE that thing, Jeff?” joke, followed by an unblinking Van Gundy staring at me for 20 solid seconds

Can’t get over the fact that Pritchard — fired earlier in the day — is still running Portland’s draft. If I were him, I’d be in Portland’s war room loudly calling other GMs and saying things like, “I have an offer for you: I’ll trade you our No. 23 pick, and in return, YOU HELP ME PULL THE F****** KNIFE OUT OF MY BACK!!!!! Do we have a deal????”

Just had our sixth commercial for “Knight And Day” in less than 2½ hours. Always funny when studios do that — instead of convincing you to see the movie, they convince you to actively hate it.

We don’t need a real sideline reporter for the draft. We’re not breaking real news here. So what about Ron Artest? You’re telling me he wouldn’t want to prowl the crowd and interview parents, fans and coaches? Who’s a bigger attention hog than him? More importantly, didn’t we learn from the 2010 Finals that you can never have enough of this formula: “Ron Artest + live microphone”?

[llperez]

yeah, i have a love/hate relationship with simmons. I hate how he is an open laker/kobe hater. But i love his pieces and think he is funny as hell. My two favorites from this draft diary were the ones on kevin pritchard. Something along the lines of:

“Do you think KP in the portland draft room looks like the scene from Saw where the 2 guys are handcuffed to the wall?” and the “I would be telling other teams ‘I’ll trade you the 23rd pick if you HELP ME PULL THIS KNIFE OUT OF MY BACK!”

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