This will be the fifth time in Bullets/Wizards history that the team has chosen sixth. Their previous four choices with the sixth pick?
Jerry Sloan in 1965
Mel Turpin in 1984
Tom Gugliotta in 1992
Calbert Cheaney in 1993
The history of the sixth pick is pretty entertaining. I embedded a screen grab below of all the sixth picks since 1980, and it's an eclectic mix of guys...with nary a superstar on the list. Who's the best guy on this list - Hawkins? Kenny the Jet? Um...Battier? And who the hell is Mike O'Koren?
The better question might have been...which one of these guys do you laugh at the most? It might be Ulcerative Colitis Wagner for me.
ReplyDeletethe laws of probability dictate that the wiz will find a gem with the pick. the laws of wizardness dictate that they'll shit themselves.
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teej, your boy mike brown is going to get the lakers job. your defensive principles will get tested out on the big stage.
ReplyDeleteAs opposed to Teedge's offensive principles, which are tested here daily and in metro-DC-area bars 3 to 4 nights a week.
ReplyDeleteBelated RIP to 1998 sixth pick Tractor Traylor.
ReplyDeleteInteresting that the sixth pick in Traylor's draft essentially became Dirk via the trade of those two on draft day.
ReplyDeleteI'd say Antoine Walker was probably the best player on that list. His game was never pretty and he thought he was MUCH better than he was but he had apretty solid 10 year run. Also, Brandon Roy would easily have become the best on that list if his knees weren't made of paper mache.
Seeing Doug Smith on the list reminded me that I met him in a Dallas Hooters during his rookie year. Was pretty excited about it at the time. I soon wised up.
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ReplyDeleteLet's just pretend danimal didn't ask that.
ReplyDeleteMike O'Koren was a solid role player for the Nets in the 80's, alongside Otis Birdsong, Buck Williams and Darryl Dawkins. But I'm pretty sure he was drafted to be Mike Gminski's wingman when they tried to score babes on the road.
ReplyDeleteno chance of that. duke/carolina enmity too strong.
ReplyDeleteI don't know Rob. Big white stiff in the NBA camaraderie might over rule even the Duke-Carolina hate.
ReplyDeletei have it on good account that eric montross wouldn't be seen in the same room as christian laettner
ReplyDeleteI don't doubt that. But lots of people won't be in the same room as Laettner. And Montross is boys with John Edwards. So I'm going to say those two are more exception than rule. NBA stiff wise, of course.
ReplyDeletewho watched AI? had to be strong to very strong, no?
ReplyDeleteO'Koren is a former Wizards assitant coach.
ReplyDeleteGoogs and Cheaney were two of my favorite Bullets players--besides Gheorghe, of course.
I think Cal is an assitant with the Warriors now.
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