Henry Imler June 27th, 2008

Watching the draft (in any sport) is an excellent way to drain excess life from a person.  The only person in the history of persons to be able to make reading about a draft fun is Bill Simmons.  Here is one such tidbit (speaking about the Richard Jefferson for Bobby Simmons/Chairman trade):

By the way, for what the Nets "got" in that trade, they should just buy out Simmons, then use the extra money to erect a 50-foot billboard across the street of LeBron’s house that says, "We have loads of cap space in 2010!" with the Nets logo in the corner. Because that could be the only explanation.

Update: More goodness:

5:37: E-mail of the night so far, courtesy of Duke in Pasadena, Calif.: "After hearing that Joe Alexander was born in Taiwan, I’m really upset about the Nets trade. How sweet would it have been to have a native Chinese player on the same team with a "native" Taiwanese player? Who would have played the role of the U.S. on the Bucks? Would Alexander claim independence from Yi, only to have Yi go to team management and tell them that there’ll be trouble if Alexander tries to move his locker away? This is a missed opportunity for a real-life sitcom … and this would have never happened if you were the GM, Simmons." Hey, maybe there’s still time. Can we get Alexander on the Nets somehow?

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