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It's pretty clear that teams who aren't the Knicks use college production. Look at Arturo's models for the last two drafts. This year, he says don't take Knox. The Knicks take Knox. Then Philly turns 10 into Zhaire and a future unprotected first and SGA goes 11. Both of those guys as well as all 8 players taken ahead of us (I don't know how he did Doncic) were recommended by one of the two models. Last year, he says the NCAA class is deep, don't roll the dice on international fliers. Top six picks all picked by the models, then Markkanen, then Ntilikina. then another six guys picked by the models. This is a league where decisionmaking is notoriously pandemically stupid yet somehow pretty much everybody is getting smarter besides us.

Ding dong the cryptofascist is dead.

http://basketballnumbers.com/2018/06/21/2018-nba-draft-preview-my-name-is-luka/ And I quote: Avoid: Michael Porter Jr. (He’s worth a late flier but the lack of data and injury history makes his draft price too high.) Knox,Walker (terrible numbers)

Looks like Knox. It's hard to screw up otherwise. The WP numbers like Zhaire better than Mikal, SGA better than Trae, Bamba and Carter better than Bagley and JJJ, but there aren't huge misses in the mid-lottery really. It should in theory be very easy to just sit at 9 and take a guy, but we all know what these assholes are capable of.

Hard to say. Arturo's models aren't on basketballnumbers.com yet but apparently the NCAA projections line up with consensus rankings pretty well so it's hard to guess who the glaringly dumb and Knicksy pick would be. He nailed it last year.

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I'm not sure what you're doing here. This is two ships passing in the night and you know why and you're not doing anything about it. You have to give people a chance. Link the post. Tell him we've been watching this stuff since it was written and how retards have gotten internet famous by blatantly stealing it because hey, what's Waldo from footballsfuture gonna do about it. I have done this sh*t more than anybody but you can't just say something counternarrative like Gholston's combine wasn't actually good and keep the explanation secret and think it's gonna go anywhere that isn't dumb.

The Mets aren't getting Frazier and nobody is getting Florial.

Les Halles was dope.

AGAIN I TRY JUST NEED TO FLY FOR JUST ONE DAY IF I COULD BE THAT WAY

SOMETIMES I DREAM THAT HE IS ME YOU GOT TO SEE THAT'S HOW I DREAM TO BE DUM DA DUM DUM I DREAM I MOVE I DREAM I GROOVE LIKE MIKE IF I COULD BE LIKE MIKE

The primary reason people keep having this nonsense argument is that LeBron and especially Jordan are two of the best-marketed products in the history of commerce. The secondary reason is Magic got the HIV.

A lot of the anti-LeBron stuff is based on the fact that he's kind of a girl. I don't necessarily disagree with the truth of the statement but I don't really see how it applies. He makes fewer mental errors than anybody I've ever seen, and the ones he does make don't seem to skew any more toward not taking shots he should than taking shots he shouldn't.

Michael Jordan famously cheated his grandmother at cards and bought gifts for opposing players so they would go easy on him. His ego didn't stop him from doing those things, but it would have stopped him from putting on a different shirt? There is a reasonable argument, albeit probably not a winning one, that Jordan was better than LeBron is. It doesn't involve Jordan passing on any edge that he could find.

Better man than I.