Missouri Basketball: NBA Draft Hopes

It's my obligatory June basketball post.  The powers that be have told me to put something together...wait...I'm the head writer.  What am I doing?

With that being said, over the past three months I've stared at stats like a 12-year-old getting hold of a Playboy, and I've broken down exactly where all Tigers are going in the NBA Draft.

You thought Mel Kiper had it down for the NFL Draft and Screamin' A. Smith was good on the NBA Draft?  They've got nothing on me.  I'm guaranteeing I can pick which team and the exact draft spot that our Tigers are going in for the '08 NBA Draft.

[**crickets**]

Yep, you've got it.  Freakin' cricket chirps.  Kalen Grimes is the only one with his name in the draft.  HAHAHA.  I almost made it all the way through that sentence before laughing.  Sorry man, hee hee.  I just...can't...stop...

I have a better chance of hitting the Powerball twice in a week than finding a Mizzou fan willing to talk basketball in June.  Mention 'Mizzou Basketball' any time between now and September, and someone in a Hazmat suit should show up with a bullhorn telling you, "Move along.  Nothing to see here."

Even though the team has been in the shitter for the past five years, like Cousin Eddie said, let's hope "Shitter's Full" and get out of the funk.

Looking at what teams are losing in the Big 12 in this NBA Draft, Mizzou has the chance to move out of the outhouse and into the Penthouse next year (two skin rag mentions, one post—CHECK!).

KU is losing most of their squad, Texas bids adieu to D.J. Augustin, K-State gets rid of Beasley and Bill Walker, and Mizzou all of a sudden can recruit.  Peep their incoming class for '08-'09, and we're sitting pretty nice.

Sure, I wish Leo Lyons would have taken Tony Temple's sloppy seconds (read comments.  Strange if true) and ridden off into the sunset this year, but he didn't.  We automatically get better by putting down graduating Darryl Butterfield, but that's too easy.

Mizzou Basketball '08 baby!  You with me?!!!

[**crickets**]

Dammit.