I Will Never, in All My Days, Forget the Night Georghe Muresan Uttered "I Love This Game" in Broken English

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What can I say. I love the NBA Draft. In celebration of that, here are some senseless observations from tonight.

-David Stern's fumbling over foreign dudes' names will never cease being hilarious.

-If all the trades tonight weren't confusing enough to track, we had to have the Roy-for-Foye trade. As for the tradin'-est team of the night, the Portland Trail Blazers, all I have to say is this: You can shuffle your roster 'til you're blue in the face, but it won't bring back Rasheed Wallace.

-If Hilton Armstrong struggles in the NBA, how long until someone makes the inevatable quip, "Hilton Armstrong is playing more like Paris Hilton out there!"

-The Bulls at this point are so international, it's become comical. I'm almost tempted to make whatever terrible U.N. or green card joke Rick Morrissey at the Chicago Tribune has up his sleeve. But seriously--Switzerland, Sudan, Argentina, England, and if Luke Schenscher is retained (God willing), Australia. Oh yeah, and Compton (ba-dum, cshhh!).

-J.J. Reddick's post-pick interview was definitely half-scripted by his lawyer.

-Worst bombed joke of the night: Jay Bilas comparing the trading frenzy to a half price sale at Lids. I still don't think I get it. (Nor did anyone on their expert panel.)

-Funniest Freudian slip of the night: Rudy Gay, in response to whether doubts about his motivation to succeed were fair: "No, not at all. I plan to be one of the best players I can. (Paraphrased)" He quickly corrected himself but it was still funny.

-Rajon Rondo stinks, and I can't believe he was picked ahead of Marcus Williams and Jordan Farmar.

-How fitting: the guy with the five-word name (Marcus Vinicius Vieira de Souza) goes to the team with two cities and five words in theirs. Kind of sucks for anyone who'll have to introduce him at a public appearance.

-Lastly, though I generally don't mind ESPN's basketball experts or Dick Vitale, I can't believe the number of times the following two sentence constructions were used:
1) "Player X has the [chance/potential] to be a [pretty/really] good NBA player."
2) "Player Y can [flat-out/absolutely] [shoot/score/defend]."

Sentence construction #1 is obnoxiously open-ended and obvious. Taking a guy with a chance to be good a basketball player seems like a pretty intuitive goal for a basketball draft. Even better would be to take someone who will be a good basketball player, or better still, is a good basketball player.

Sentence construction #2 just gets old. Please find some new ways to emphasize a player's best skill, Greg, Jay, Dickie, and Stephen A.

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