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From: dasaxe@milton.u.washington.edu (Daniel Perreault)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.basketball.pro
Subject: The draft and trades speculation
Keywords: Houston?
Date: 3 Apr 92 20:29:32 GMT
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle



Ok, I have been following the Hakeem thing pretty closely and there has
been much discussion over the trade value and such. So just for sport
a friend and I set up a draft order based on simply the reverse order of
records in the NBA currently. I realize that this is not a guaranteed
order, but it seemed like a reasonable thing to work with.

Next I considered some of the possible juniors coming out and looked at
the seniors available and ran a little mock draft. Now part of the purpose
of this was to figure out potentially how Hakeem can move out of Houston,
and part to get a view of what the draft might look like.



1) Minnesota            Now here is a projected deal given this draft order.
2) Orlando              Assuming Shaq comes out, Minnestota sends the #1 pick,
3) Dallas               Felton Spencer and Gerald Glass for Hakeem Olijuwan,
4) Washington           one of Buck Johnson/Vernon Maxwell/Sleepy Floyd and a
5) Denver               2nd round pick.
6) Sacramento
7) Charlotte            Considering this, I made the assumption that Harold
8) Milwuakee            Miner is coming out too. Now Houston
9) Philadelphia         takes the Shaq, has a young swing forward in Glass
10) New Jersey          that has potential and still has the 14th pick. Here
11) Miami               my friend and I disagreed, he argued that Houston
12) Atlanta             would have to send over the 14th pick instead of a
13) Indiana             2nd rounder. Looking at this draft order, any of the
14) Houston             teams in about the top 10 would kill to get Hakeem,
15) L.A. Lakers         and most of them probably could work out a way to
16) L.A. Clippers       do it under the salary cap.
17) Seattle
18) Detroit
19) San Antonio
20) Boston
21) New York
22) Utah
23) Phoenix
24) Golden State
25) Cleveland
26) Portland
27) Chicago

In any case, here is how we saw these first 10 picks going by...
1) Houston (by trade) - Shaquille O'Neal
2) Orlando - Alonzo Mourning (A little quickness and size to go with Roberts)
3) Dallas - Christian Laettner (A Detlef Schrempf guy to play at the SF spot.)
4) Washington - Elmor Spencer (Move Ellison to PF and get the best C not on TV)
5) Denver - Harold Miner (Make Macon the swing 6th guy and Miner the 2 guard)
6) Sacramento - Walt Williams (A great point guard, a foot taller than Spud.)
7) Charlotte - LaPhonso Ellis (LJ goes to SF and Ellis gives hgt, rbd to front)
-----NOTE We thought Ed Stokes might go here, is he really that good?
8) Milwaukee - Byron Houston (Youth and muscle up front)
9) Philadelphia - Ed Stokes (a real center?)
10) New Jersey -  Malik Sealy (a little more consistency at SF)

We went through the whole draft, but these were the only ones that seemed
relevant.

So any thoughts out there?


Dan Perreault
dasaxe@u.washington.edu

This Hornets fan has faith in one of the team's 4 or 5 balls getting sucked
up the shute, giving Charlotte the first pick of the draft for the second year
in a row.


                         SHAQUILLE     IN       TEAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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