Are You Kidding Me?
Braylon Edwards is out 4-6 weeks because of a staff infection IN his elbow. Will the "new" Browns ever catch a break with their first round picks. Everyone of them since 1999 has missed significant time from multiple seasons. Hey Braylon, don't pick at that in-grown hair! I guess that's what you get from a UM guy.
The radio station I listen to at work plays at least three Journey songs each afternoon and each one of them makes my day. Steve Perry is a God.
I was looking at the interns links on Sports Guy's page yesterday and I visited http://www.garygaetti.com/. Awesome! Whoever made the page has a very unhealthy love for the Italian Stallion, but its hilarious none the less.
In my last post I covered the Browns's drafts since their rebirth in 1999. How rich would I be if I had that Sports Almanac? At least a billionare. I'd probably even start one of those bettor's assistance companies like in "Two for the Money". I would stay hot forever though. Today I'm going to consult the Almanac on the Cavs drafts after Jim Paxson took over. Paxson took over for the great Wayne Embry after the 1999 season. Paxson was a horrible GM, you'll see what I'm talking about.
I'm going to start with Embry's last pick in 1999. This wasn't technically his pick because he had already announced that 1999-2000 would be his last season. He pretty much assumed an advisory role and let Paxson run things such as the draft.
1999-Trajan Langdon (are you kidding me); almanac says Ron Artest (I'd have been happy with Corey Maggette or even James Posey. Sidenote, they took AJ Bramlet from Arizona in the second round, solid draft.)
2000-Chris Mihm; almanac says Jamaal Magloire (the worst part of this is they drafted Jamal Crawford then traded him for Mihm. They obviously wanted a big man b/c "Z" was in his broken foot stage. Mihm had a huge second half of the season and vaulted himself into the top 10. Magloire was/is much more physical and could have slid to the 4 when Z got healthy. Looking at that now the Cavs would have one of the best front lines in the NBA when you throw in LeBron. I want to puke.)
2001(my favorite draft)-Dasagana Diop-almanac says take your pick...Richard Jefferson, Joe Johnson, or Zach Randolph (this was by far the worst of Paxson's picks. What made it even worse was that he actually drafted a servicable big man with the 18th pick in Brendan Haywood, only to deal him away to Orlando for Michael Doleac [stiff], and then the Magic sent him to Washington for Laron Profit. The Magic have ruined more drafts than the Cavs, I won't argue that, but this was bad.)
2002-Dejuan Wagner; almanac says Amare Stoudemire (nothing like taking a slashing 2-guard that's all of 6'2" and can't shoot to save his life when one of the most dominating players in the league is sitting their for the taking. At least we weren't the only team to pass on him)
2003-LeBron James; almanac says he finally got one right. No one could have messed up this pick, not even the Magic. (Let it be known that he did squander the 2nd rounder on Jason Kapono with guys like Luke Walton and Kyle Korver on the board.)
2004-Luke Jackson; almanac says take your pick. Jackson probably was the guy at the time. Good size and a good shot, but with all of the high school guys taken after him you know that one of them will end up being a stud (Josh Smith, Sebastian Telfair). It was the safe pick at the time. Paxson did manage to steal Anderson Varejao away from the Magic before the start of the season.
So there you have it. I great run of ineptitude by one of the NBA's worst GMs of all-time. Let's hope that Danny Ferry does a better job.
The radio station I listen to at work plays at least three Journey songs each afternoon and each one of them makes my day. Steve Perry is a God.
I was looking at the interns links on Sports Guy's page yesterday and I visited http://www.garygaetti.com/. Awesome! Whoever made the page has a very unhealthy love for the Italian Stallion, but its hilarious none the less.
In my last post I covered the Browns's drafts since their rebirth in 1999. How rich would I be if I had that Sports Almanac? At least a billionare. I'd probably even start one of those bettor's assistance companies like in "Two for the Money". I would stay hot forever though. Today I'm going to consult the Almanac on the Cavs drafts after Jim Paxson took over. Paxson took over for the great Wayne Embry after the 1999 season. Paxson was a horrible GM, you'll see what I'm talking about.
I'm going to start with Embry's last pick in 1999. This wasn't technically his pick because he had already announced that 1999-2000 would be his last season. He pretty much assumed an advisory role and let Paxson run things such as the draft.
1999-Trajan Langdon (are you kidding me); almanac says Ron Artest (I'd have been happy with Corey Maggette or even James Posey. Sidenote, they took AJ Bramlet from Arizona in the second round, solid draft.)
2000-Chris Mihm; almanac says Jamaal Magloire (the worst part of this is they drafted Jamal Crawford then traded him for Mihm. They obviously wanted a big man b/c "Z" was in his broken foot stage. Mihm had a huge second half of the season and vaulted himself into the top 10. Magloire was/is much more physical and could have slid to the 4 when Z got healthy. Looking at that now the Cavs would have one of the best front lines in the NBA when you throw in LeBron. I want to puke.)
2001(my favorite draft)-Dasagana Diop-almanac says take your pick...Richard Jefferson, Joe Johnson, or Zach Randolph (this was by far the worst of Paxson's picks. What made it even worse was that he actually drafted a servicable big man with the 18th pick in Brendan Haywood, only to deal him away to Orlando for Michael Doleac [stiff], and then the Magic sent him to Washington for Laron Profit. The Magic have ruined more drafts than the Cavs, I won't argue that, but this was bad.)
2002-Dejuan Wagner; almanac says Amare Stoudemire (nothing like taking a slashing 2-guard that's all of 6'2" and can't shoot to save his life when one of the most dominating players in the league is sitting their for the taking. At least we weren't the only team to pass on him)
2003-LeBron James; almanac says he finally got one right. No one could have messed up this pick, not even the Magic. (Let it be known that he did squander the 2nd rounder on Jason Kapono with guys like Luke Walton and Kyle Korver on the board.)
2004-Luke Jackson; almanac says take your pick. Jackson probably was the guy at the time. Good size and a good shot, but with all of the high school guys taken after him you know that one of them will end up being a stud (Josh Smith, Sebastian Telfair). It was the safe pick at the time. Paxson did manage to steal Anderson Varejao away from the Magic before the start of the season.
So there you have it. I great run of ineptitude by one of the NBA's worst GMs of all-time. Let's hope that Danny Ferry does a better job.
posted by CFunk28 at 1:13 PM
3 Comments:
You're quite the blogger lately son. Since you obviously ahve a bunch of time on your hands, do you want to get in on an NBA Fantasy League with me? I'm trying to drum up some interest. I think I can probably get 8 guys if you and McGrail want to get in on it. Let me know in this space.
Thanks for the IN correction. Here's some more: Dajuan, not Dejuan.
That 1999 Darft is as abd as any I can remember. Selecting Trajan Langdon at 11 immmediately gets it into the pantheon of horrible drafts, but selecting AJ Bramlett in the second may have been even worse.
I haven't been in an NBA league since like 1999. But why not give it another shot. Send me the league info when you have it.
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