I Called It: Magic Go With Some Euro Guy/Pick The Best Magic Cheerleader: Round 1, Part 6: Jane vs Jeanise
For many Magic fans, if they had to describe their face during the Orlando Magic's draft last night, it would look like this:
Bored, apathetic, and somewhat amazed that Otis Smith actually had managed to trade away nearly all of the Magic's picks in the draft for cash. -I say nearly because the Magic managed to get one guy in the draft, the last overall pick in Milovan Rakovic, whose picture that actually is above. You can see on his face just how incredibly excited he is to be picked and promptly thrown back to Europe. Yesterday I said we would go Europe guy to save money and the Magic didn't dissapoint.On a side note, how about some of the trades yesterday?
Ray Allen to Boston for the draft rights of Jeff Green, Delonte West, and Wally's World. Everyone seems to agree, even homer Bill Simmons, that this was a totally moronic move for Boston. They now have an old player coming off of double ankle surgeries with an enormous contract. Yipee.
After this trade, it was reported that the Sonics would do everything to keep Rashard Lewis. That is all well and nice and all, but do I really see Rashard returning to a team without a head coach, no clear plan for the future, and a draftee who is already more famous than him despite Rashard's career year last year? Nah.
Then there was JRich to the Bobcats for the draft rights of Brandon Wright. I thought this was a totally moronic move by the Bobcats, who got a decent player in Jrich but surrendered a bunch of the cap room they were going to use this offseason and a really promising young player. MJ still lights a cigar at the end of the day, so he doesn't care.
The next trade, which of course was fated to happen with the Knicks' penchant for overweight, thug-like players (Larry Johnson, Eddie Curry, Maurice Taylor, Kelvin Cato, etc), was repeat sex offender Zach Randolph to the Knicks. They surrendered Steve Francis' contract and Charlie Frye. Everyone went nuts for the Knicks when this trade happened, but the Blazers really got a great player in return with Charlie Frye. Suddenly taking a look at the Blazers roster is truly frightening and I am really happy that the Magic aren't in their division. As for Randolph, his contract is huge so this is a higher risk than Knicks fans realize, especially with Randolph having knocks against his game for being rather mindless at times. I think it helped both teams overall, but I think the Knicks are poised for a letdown after seeing them celebrate like they just won the championship.
Enough of this balderdash, let's vote on some cheerleaders to get us into the weekend in style.
Which Magic cheerleader do you prefer: Jane or Jeanise?
Toss your comments on the draft fun and the cheerleaders in the comments section.
Have a good weekend!
2 comments:
Another tough choice... but I think Jeanise is a little more beautiful than Jane.
As far as the Magic draft goes, they did the right thing. They're stockpiling big guys for the future, while saving money that they can use to re-sign Darko and sign Rashard Lewis.
Personally, I think the Knicks screwed themselves with that deal. Channing Frye is a budding young player, and it would take a lot more than that to pry him away from my team.
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