What would it mean?

We're about 24 hours away from the lottery...it seems there's been lot of controversy about the amount of opportunity there is for teams to get high picks and not be rewarded for losing games...please refer to my posts in early April about player value. While we've assumed that the first pick will be #12 and focused our reporting on players who may be available at that spot and beyond.

That being said...


What would it mean to get into the top 2 tomorrow? Oh, just everything.

Let's be straight...Durant is a player that would have a "Duncan-esque" impact on the team...by the time he would be 23, he'd be good for 25, 12, 5 and 5 every night. With a good supporting cast, the Sixers would be one of the top 4 teams in the East for as long as he was on the team and was healthy. Everyone wants to get to the conference finals etc...but a good barometer for success in the NBA should be game 6 of the semi-finals; with matchups and injuries, it's the toughest part of the playoffs to get through, but I digress...there is no reason with Durant the Sixers won't be there consistently. That means quality basketball for 10 years at least! The major upside to KD is that he's just a superb basketball player in addition to being the best athlete. Again...a Duncan, Kobe, LeBron type of player...all have, could and or will win championships. Better than KG (although he's just hasn't caught a break), McGrady etc...IMO.



Mr. Oden...

I've had the good fortune of being an OSU graduate and missed probably 20 minutes of game action he played this year. A few things you should know...

• Oden didn't play basketball from May to December last year. That's an incredibly long layoff - so when observers said "he looked gassed" in January, that was the reason.
• He has a legitimate left hand
• Just because he's a center, and wants to play center, and is coming to the Association to be a center, he is a good enough athlete with a floor game to be a 4 (next to a Dalembert type)

I will cry if he comes to the Sixers. My dad will buy season tickets (along with about 10,000 other people who are just waiting to be entertained consistently for a $300 evening). Greg Oden will automatically be put with Wilt, Moses, Daryl, Charles, Julius, Allen, Mo, Andrew, Eric and Aaron and other one named 76er greats. If the Sixers put the same team on the court they had last year they would finish in the top 4 in the conference and win the East with Oden REGARDLESS of what anyone else does.

By year three, the Sixers would be in the finals.

That's all.