As we await tonight\u2019s NHL draft, we\u2019ll start with an NBA draft summary.<\/p>\n
It was a fairly uneventful draft night in that there were few surprises but that doesn\u2019t mean it wasn\u2019t exciting to see who went where.<\/p>\n
John Wall went to the Washington Wizards first overall, becoming the first Kentucky player to get that honor. Washington stayed busy, acquiring Kirk Hinrich and the 17th<\/sup> pick in the draft (French forward Kevin Seraphin) in exchange for nothing but cap space. Think the Bulls are planning for a LeBron push? Um, yeah.<\/p>\n National player of the year Evan Turner went to the Philadelphia 76ers at second overall, followed by freshman Derrick Favors heading to the New Jersey Nets.<\/p>\n No college had a more exciting night than Kentucky, however. After Wall went, DeMarcus Cousins went to Sacramento at No. 5 overall. When Houston chose Patrick Patterson 14th<\/sup> and Eric Bledsoe fell to Oklahoma City at No. 18, that gave the Wildcats four players in the top 18. The Magic took Daniel Orton 29th<\/sup> and in doing so gave Kentucky a record for players taken in the first round of one draft.<\/p>\n The weirdest moment of the night came when the Portland Trail Blazers fired general manager Kevin Pritchard an hour before the draft started. I guess they\u00a0really<\/em> didn\u2019t want him making picks?<\/p>\n Top 10 Picks<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Washington John Wall PG <\/strong> The top of the draft goes according to plan. The Wizards take John Wall first, and the 76ers pick Evan Turner second. What a snoozer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":68,"featured_media":23536,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[30497,25380,30499,13312,25378,27030,30503,30502,30498,30500,30501,22678,2877],"class_list":["post-23535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-2010-nba-draft","tag-derrick-favors","tag-draft-opinion","tag-draft-recap","tag-evan-turner","tag-john-wall","tag-nba-blog","tag-nba-college-entry-draft","tag-nba-draft-analysis","tag-nba-draft-blog","tag-portland-trail-blazers","tag-todays-sports-headlines","tag-washington-wizards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/68"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23535"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":108708,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23535\/revisions\/108708"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23536"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capperspicks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n2. Philadelphia Evan Turner SG
\n3. New Jersey Derrick Favors PF
\n4. Minnesota Wesley Johnson SF
\n5. Sacramento DeMarcus Cousins PF
\n6. Golden State Ekpe Udoh PF
\n7. Detroit Greg Monroe C
\n8. Los Angeles Clippers Al-Farouq Aminu SF
\n9. Utah Gordon Hayward SF
\n10. Indiana Paul George SF<\/p>\nSPORTSBOOK.COM PROMOS \u2013 JOIN and GET up to $100 FREE \u2013 10% New Member Bonus on your first deposit. $20 Mobile Free Play \u2013 Stay on the go and in the dough with Sportsbook.com Mobile. Bet now! Join Now<\/h3>\n
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