Now that you can play a guy like Bynum 30 plus minutes a game while working with your handpicked coach for the first couple of months of the season before calling him up. Not to make this another Bynum thread, but this affects other teams as well, and who will be around at 30. I think teams will be much quicker to pick young guys like Monta Ellis, Brand Rush, Blatche, etc knowing they can play them heavy minutes right away in the NBDL. The effect for us will be there will be a greater number of older players around 30. College seniors and the like.

Thoughts?

I would be more open to drafting Bynum, personally, but still not at the 8...If the Lakers are seriously trying to move up, I don't think they promised Bynum anything....We NEED another midround pick

there is no riding pine for a year now... you could play him for 30 minutes a game for 2-3 months and look to bring him up midseason or so.

Posted by Rich:

I wanted to drafted Bynum anyway. The Knicks may not have another chance at a potential force at C for years.

We'll probably be back in the lottery next year or the year after. We might have a shot then.

I think he was being sarcastic, but there is no doubt the CBA will seriously dilute next year's draft, and saturate the 07 draft. A good GM would already be planning for such things... trading pick 30 for some team's 07 #1 is an example.

I definitely think teams are more likely to take the more raw, inexperienced, but high ceiling guys. Which is why I think its confusing that a guy like Branden Rush pulled out considering he would've been drafted somewhere.