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DAVID STERN: With the 5th pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics select Yi...oh wait, Nick Young! This is not a joke people! They really selected Nick Young with the 5th overall pick!
Suns talking to Cats about getting No. 8 pick
By Andy Katz
ESPN.com
Updated: June 27, 2007, 1:04 AM ET
The Phoenix Suns are discussing a trade with the Charlotte Bobcats for the No. 8 pick to get into the NBA draft lottery, multiple sources close to both organizations told ESPN.com Tuesday night.
Although Phoenix forward Shawn Marion can opt out of his contract at the end of next season, a source close to the Suns told ESPN.com that he is not part of a deal and is expected to stay put.
ESPN's Jim Gray is reporting, however, that Marion could be part of a three-way trade that would land Kevin Garnett in Phoenix. Marion would go to Boston and the Celtics would send the No. 5 pick in Thursday's draft and players to Minnesota.
The Suns source told ESPN.com that role players were involved in the proposed trade with the Bobcats, but at least one other team besides Phoenix and Charlotte is also involved, making the deal difficult to pull off.
The Suns currently own picks No. 24 and 29 in the first round while Charlotte has Nos. 8 and 21. Phoenix convinced the agents for likely lottery players Corey Brewer and Joakim Noah of Florida, Jeff Green of Georgetown and Brandan Wright of North Carolina to work out for the Suns because they felt confident they could get into the top 10.
The Suns also invited Celtics executive director of basketball operations Danny Ainge and coach Doc Rivers to watch the workouts in Phoenix. The Celtics and Suns both told ESPN.com, however, that Boston was there to watch the workout, not to discuss a trade. Both said the Celtics and Suns aren't trade partners for Boston's No. 5 pick.
The Celtics could throw a curveball at the rest of the lottery. They are working out USC junior guard Nick Young on Wednesday morning at their practice facility in Waltham.
Young, who has been projected by most NBA personnel to go as high as No. 13 to New Orleans, is a personal favorite of Celtics' assistant general manager Leo Papile. Papile wants Ainge and Rivers to see Young before Thursday's draft and decide if he is a viable alternative for the Celtics at No. 5 if the team decides against going with China's Yi Jianlian. Young, considered one of the top shooting guards in the draft, could displace Green, Noah or Brewer as the Celtics' Plan B.
A surprise Young selection that high in the draft would obviously change the entire complexion of the lottery. Andy Katz is a senior writer at ESPN.com.
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/draft2...ory?id=2917804
I could hear it now:
DAVID STERN: With the 5th pick in the 2007 NBA Draft, the Boston Celtics select Yi...oh wait, Nick Young! This is not a joke people! They really selected Nick Young with the 5th overall pick!
Teams only leak that when they want someone to bid on their pick.
Kerr is GMing round the league
Of course another team is involved as the Suns are trying to retain the Hawks' pick next season while trying to move up enough to snag Corey Brewer to replace Shawn Marion who of course they are going to use to land Kevin Garnett.
Stevie gets an E for Effort, much like he got for all but 2 minutes of his Spurs career.
F the Lakers
As for the Bobcats, Jordan hasn't looked that great in the draft in his executive career, and the Bobcats have a lot of young talent, if he can put something together for someone a little older, maybe 26-28 years old that's proven themselves in the league, it might not be a bad move.
Wallace is 24
Okafor 24
Felton 22
May 23
Morrison 22
If Brezec is healthy next season, and they resign Wallace (An must) then this team will be pretty decent either way, with the fifth pick or someone else, but I don't know if at some point you can have too much young talent.
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