Draft Prospect: DeJuan Blair

[celldweller]

Meet DuJuan Blair.

http://www.wpxi.com/sports/19861667/detail.html

[CharlieMac]

Whats up with these bad Malik comparisons?

[CharlieMac]

No such thing as a gamble in the 2nd round. Great value pick here for the Spurs.

Right on my human brother.

[bdictjames]

Hope he fits.

[z0sa]

a big mother er who can bring the pain down low on both ends. Lots of fire and heart it seems. Yeah, I like it.

[Samr]

What do you have to lose in the 2nd round? I would have been content with a decent draft-n-stash, and in some cases I think that was done in the first round. The second round you are supposed to take risks, why not?

But to get first round, even lottery maybe, talent? Why would you NOT do that? What do you have to lose?

[exstatic]

Wow. There is absolutely NO downside to Blair at #37. I'd have reservations about him as a lottery pick, where he was projected, but damn...

[timvp]

Wow. There is absolutely NO downside to Blair at #37. I'd have reservations about him as a lottery pick, where he was projected, but damn...

Yeah this is a very good pick. Even if his knees don't hold up and he never plays in the NBA, the potential reward of this picks makes it a good one.

[EricB]

Ex,

you didnt' like Blair.

you didnt like Richard Jefferson

This is just not your offseason man.

[Phenomanul]

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft...f ch-090604

On the downside, Pittsburgh's DeJuan Blair has to be bummed. Blair looked solid in the drills and really impressed teams with his weight loss and tone. He also measured short, but his wingspan, standing reach and his athletic abilities made up for much of it.

However, the news became much grimmer for Blair when the results of the medical testing came back. Multiple NBA teams are saying Blair's knees have been red-flagged.

Blair tore both of his ACLs in high school, and the preliminary word from the physicals is that his knees aren't in great shape.

How bad they are depends on who you talk to, but the range wasn't good. I heard everything from "devastating" to "troubling."

well at least now we know how he managed to drop this far into the second round...

CIA Pop was scaring other GMs away....

dissmination of misinformation...

[YODA]

we have any other 2nd rounders this year?

[timvp]

Ex,

you didnt' like Blair.

you didnt like Richard Jefferson

This is just not your offseason man.

Re-read his post again.

[Ghost Writer]

Ex,

you didnt' like Blair.

you didnt like Richard Jefferson

This is just not your offseason man.

That means we have a chance this year.

[Spurtacus]

we have any other 2nd rounders this year?

We have three picks in the 2nd. 37, 51, 53.

[Chieflion]

Lucky for us.

[EricB]

Re-read his post again.

Well no he pretty much was not a fan of either player, I'm just sayin.

[Longley]

Looks decent pick.

[Cant_Be_Faded]

That would really blow if his knees are already ed up. DeJuan could give it his all in summer leagues and practices and actually end up ing himself over.

[GINNNNNNNNNNNNOBILI]

Yeah this is a very good pick. Even if his knees don't hold up and he never plays in the NBA, the potential reward of this picks makes it a good one.

Yeah... exactly, consider it like signing a free agent for 2-3 years.

Beautiful pick, gonna be awesome coming off the bench

[spursnatic]

I hope he is the next coming of Jason Maxiell?....Atleast I know he can score more than Maxiell!!...

[MoSpur]

I hope this dude proves all those teams who passed him up wrong. He's gonna play with a chip on his shoulder.

[djohn14]

I hope this dude proves all those teams who passed him up wrong. He's gonna play with a chip on his shoulder.

Hope its not a big chip, his knees might give out. In all seriousness though, Blair could have went at the end of the lotto and nobody would have ed about it...great pick.

[Strange Botwin]

Of course, the dude is like Malik Rose in a mutha in' GOOD way! Remember Malik in 1999-2003. It's like people only remember Malik for the fat contract he signed and not hustle player who pushed Shaq in his prime out of the lane during playoff basketball. If Blair equals Malik Rose (which I think he does), then we got a sweet plug-in piece for 2009-10 championship run! Not bad for a 2nd rounder.

[024]

james gist will not like this compe ion...

[duncan228]

McDonald's blurb.

Spurs take Pitt’s Blair
Jeff McDonald

With their first pick in tonight’s NBA draft, the 37th overall, the Spurs selected Pittsburgh forward DeJuan Blair.

Blair, 6-foot-7, was the Big East Co-Player of the Year as a sop re last season, in which he averaged 15.3 points and 12.3 rebounds.

He is undersized for an NBA power forward, but boasts keen instincts for rebounding – aided, of course, by a freakish 7-foot-2 wingspan.

The Spurs were lucky Blair fell to them.

Originally projected as a first-round pick, and once considered a potential lottery pick, Blair’s stock slid a bit due to injury concerns. He has had a pair of ACL surgeries.