There will be no Tskitishvili repeats for the Nuggets this year.Remember all that speculation earlier about what the Nuggets might want to do with their 20th overall pick in the draft? Well, forget it. Because they went ahead and sent that pick to the Charlotte Bobcats for "a future protected first round draft pick."
It appeared to me that the Nuggets could have used some size, and it seemed more than plausible that someone like Roy Hibbert or Marreese Speights would still have been on the board at 20, so why give away the pick? It's possible that the team didn't want to add to the roster with players like J.R. Smith and Eduardo Najera expected to be re-signed later this summer, or maybe they felt that whoever they'd get at 20 wouldn't really solve the team's immediate issues.
As for the Bobcats, they're now sitting pretty with the #9 and #20 picks in the draft. If Kevin Love and Brook Lopez are gone by the time Charlotte's first pick rolls around, they can feel confident in taking the best guard available, knowing that there should still be plenty of serviceable bigs left when they pick again at 20.
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6-25-2008 @ 9:21PM
Basketball.org said...
I know the Nuggets are so lazy that they dont want to play defense, but now too lazy to make draft picks! It seems odd to me that you trade away this first round pick. I think this is a pretty deep draft, and they could have picked up somebody pretty good here at 20. Also, why not wait and see how the draft plays out tomorrow and then trade the pick to the Bobcats? Great move by Charlotte.
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