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Perhaps it (ie, the Walker draft pick) will all work out to our benefit after all is said and done, though... who knows.

Was that "Silas" or "Bilas" who said that...

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If so, what's keeping you from committing? Please educate me. Not to be critical -- I'm sincerely clueless how anyone who's been paying attention still hasn't made their decision.

Okay... there's seemingly hundreds of sports, and four of them include professionals... the question remains... why? Under what possible good, consistent logic is that the case?

It could certainly help if, next time, the previous year's NBA championship team is selected wholesale, filling only those slots created by the foreigners on that roster with other All-Star caliber players. And yet, don't you just wonder why the Olympics is "amateur-participant-only" for every other sport except basketball? That would be my druthers... deny any country the right to play any player who does the sport for a living.

Fairness and good basketball are not mutually-exclusive concepts. It's unfortunate that somehow some people have come to believe that they are. In the main, college basketball is proof that a game can be called according to the rules, giving both teams a virtually-equal possibility of winning the game, and still can be entertaining. Go back before the Stern era of NBA basketball, or even the early years of his reign, and you can still see a game that is just plain beautiful to watch. And it's why, unless the Hawks are playing, I refuse to watch an entire NBA game these days... after a few minutes, it's just appalling and is an insult to my intelligence, again, not unlike watching professional wrestling.

...is seriously askew. I contend that the problem is not with the interntional refs, but with the NBA refs who have become the equivalent of professional wrestling refs at times... calling what they want to call, and mostly letting what should be ballet with a roundball to be turned into Austrailian rules football. Don't get me wrong -- I want to see the US win, of course. But every time our guys get called for traveling or palming the ball, I have to admit that it gives me some satisfaction to see officiating that is honest to the actual rules of the game.

No... that's just the point... BK still has a huge hole to fill at PG. Delk might have served as a stop-gap, but that's all he was.

Relying on Tony Delk to start at PG challenges history. Delk is what he is -- a poor man's new era Byron Scott who might've been less a journeyman through his career had the injury bug not been such a consistent pest. Delk is an adequate idea for a Vinnie-Johnson-kind-of-role. Any other idea of how to use him is a venture into unproven waters.

Getting dealt to Atlanta for GP is the same as being property of the Celtics... he's adamant that he's not moving his family east.

Amen on Hastings. Didn't he do some TV work right after he retired? Pre-Nique, though he ended up starting eventually, Steve Hawes started out as a no-name.

It's popularly accepted that the NBA game -- with its uneven standards for calling fouls and violations -- is different from that of college ball. Turning aside from the Damp conversations for a moment... what's the consensus here, espeically among those of you who've watched this current team struggle... is the international game called significantly differently from the NBA, and is some part of this struggle due to NBA players unable to get used to international officiating?

Source for this revelation???... I can't find anything myself.

...if that was all that matters, he'd already have signed or the deal would have already been made. His quotes in the press can serve one purpose at this point... to attempt to drive up the Hawks offer.