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Globetrotters have a draft; Generals have 'Fashion'

June 25, 2009

Real basketball fans are interested in what will happen in the NBA Draft tonight.
The lowly LA Clippers will make OU's Blake Griffin an instant zillionaire. Then when he gets good, he can go play for the Lakers.

The NBA Draft doesn't get the same attention that the NFL Draft gets.
But it's a whole lot better than the "other" basketball draft held this week.
Griffin also went No. 1 in that one, only it wasn't Blake.
His older brother, Taylor Griffin, was the top draft pick of the Harlem Globetrotters.

I'm the sports guy for this newspaper.
I'm supposed to know everything.
But I didn't know until this week that the Globetrotters even had a draft.
And I still haven't figured out why.

A one-team draft?
Where's Mel Kuiper?
Do they have a war room?
If you wanted to trade down, wouldn't you also have to trade up?

"The Harlem Globetrotters have traded their first round pick to the Harlem Globetrotters for two third-round selections."

Aside from Taylor Griffin, the team also drafted a couple of college slam dunk stars, a soccer goalie and somebody else you have never heard of.

So tell me do the Washington Generals also have a draft?
Or do the Globetrotters draft for them?

When I took my grandson to see the Globetrotters this year, the Generals had Ricardo LeCompte from Channel 3 and Mayor Lanham Lyne on their roster.
Heck, they probably would have asked me to play if they could have found a 3X jersey and a designated runner.

I was glancing at the Generals real roster on-line and saw where they have a player who attended FIT of New York.
The Fashion Institute of Technology?

So which do you think is a better bet == the Generals beating the Globetrotters or the New York Fashion Institute of Technology getting to the Final Four?
My money is on FIT.

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That's hilarious!

Posted by: Thomas | June 26, 2009 9:40 AM

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