Memphis Grizzlies and Hakeem Thabeet
June 21, 2009 by James Edwards
Filed under Memphis Grizzlies, NBA Draft
NBA Obsessed takes you into the hit and run game of NBA Basketball.
It is draft time speculation time or something like that and the Memphis Grizzlies, a perennial loser in the NBA, have the second pick and no clue as to what to do with it.
Hasheem Thabeet towers over everybody
The most persistent rumor has the Griz taking Hasheem Thabeet, but Hasheem wouldn’t even work out for them. Hey, would you want to spend your career on a perennial loser? Ok, Hasheem said he has some shoulder problems right now, but you wonder what his response would have been if the Lakers had called?
Who would the Grizzlies pick if the draft was held today?
Truth is, no one really knows at this point. No one. Agendas are flying all over the place.
Reports that Heisley has settled on taking Thabeet are erroneous and grossly overblown, as is speculation that coach Lionel Hollins operates with a Thabeet-or-bust mind-set.
Depending on the day, Heisley, Hollins and Wallace are as excited about a potential trade as they are about possibly drafting Thabeet or Rubio. Even guards Curry and DeRozan have become prominent in discussions among decision makers in the organization.
In other words, the Grizzlies are all over the draft map as it relates to the No. 2, 27th and 36th picks.
That doesn’t necessarily mean trouble given the Griz didn’t consummate a deal for O.J. Mayo until draft night last year, and the deal turned out just fine.
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With a solid plan like deciding on draft day who to take, does this explain why the Grizzlies are always such a rotten team?
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Liked this Thabeet blog, I just worry about incoming rookies being able to leverage themselves out of bad teams. The draft is suppose to help bad teams, most likely poorly run teams, but if players keep refusing to play for those teams then how can they really improve?
Ouch! Good point. But it often seems to be two factors defining the bad franchises. Bad Management and Cheap owners. Often they work in cahoots. Management is the greater factor, but owners have to pony up to keep the good players.