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Dunn seems like less of a fit until you realize that he would be the best pure point guard on the roster — right away.
Marcus Smart can play off the ball. Isaiah Thomas, an All-Star, can be dealt. Having an elite distributor, especially one that defends like Dunn does, would be very appealing.
It’s too early to know for sure which way the Celtics will go on draft night, but if the draft were today, I think Dunn would get the nod.
Good grief, Chad. Dunn’s reps won’t even let the kid work out for Boston and you think they’re going to draft him sight unseen? With no interviews, no drills, nothing to go off of other than the YouTube equivalent of a mixtape? They’re going to draft this guy and DEAL Isaiah Thomas TO MAKE ROOM FOR HIM? Are you kidding me?
And, mind you, normally you have to pay ESPN to read this kind of logic!
Who does this? This is the equivalent of being able to read the Financial Times for free while Business Insider sits behind a paywall. No, strike that, I’ve read some good stuff on BI before. This is worse.
I shudder to think of the money that gets spent every year by legitimate news organizations like the Springfield Republican in order to access articles compiled by writers who are stretched far too thin to be able to do justice to the topic at hand, and who inevitably toss out specious reasoning in support of untenable conclusions.
Of course, Chad’s basically set up to fail. He doesn’t know all thirty teams in the NBA well enough to speak intelligibly of what each team needs versus who will likely be available–nor does he know the way each team’s management is inclined to operate. There aren’t that many people in this business that do. In fact, there may not be any.
On a sunny Sunday afternoon in early June 1967, several hundred Clevelanders crowded outside the offices of the Negro Industrial Economic union in lower University Circle. None of those gathered, including a collection of the top black athletes of that time, realized the significance of what would happen in that building on this day.
Muhammad Ali, the most polarizing figure in the country, was inside being grilled by the likes of Bill Russell, Jim Brown and Lew Alcindor, who would later change his name to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. They weren’t interested in whether Ali was going to take his talents to South Beach or any other sports labor issues.
They wanted to know just how strong Ali stood behind his convictions as a conscientious objector to the Vietnam War. The questions flew fast and furious. Ali’s answers would determine whether Brown and the other athletes would throw their support behind the heavyweight champion, who would have his title stripped from him later in the month for his refusal to enter the military.
Both Russell and Ali were outspoken advocates for civil rights. The article above is an excellent survey of what was at stake in professional sports almost fifty years ago. It’s worth reading if for no other reason than to get perspective on how trivial many issues in sports are today (like, say, a poorly reasoned mock draft dashed off by an overworked ESPN writer, or the overall low quality of their subscriber-only material).
