WRG Mock Draft 2010 - #28 Memphis Grizzlies

 
Let me tell you, when we saw polar bears on that "Lost" island - what a sense of relief came over our whole franchise.  If polar bears can be wandering around on some tropical island, who's to say you won't see a grizzly or two munching on tourists at Graceland or bopping down Beale street enjoying some tunes.

Then they came up with all that time-shifting nonsense, and maybe the place was purgatory and all that.  We don't know and we don't want to know.  It bums us out a little.  We liked it the old, confusing way where our name made some sense.

So, yeah, our frontcourt is fine and we've been hanging on to our underwhelming lottery PG for a while now - so we are going to take Armon Johnson here and hope he's the best of the crop of athletic combo guards still on the board.  We think he's the most well-rounded of them and probably the best mix of scoring ability, shooting, defense and potential at the point.

The "H" stands for, "Hi, Memphis, you don't know me, but my name is Armon Johnson and I was the second best player on Nevada, and even though I bet you are not that excited your team drafted me I am going to work really hard and - hey - I can't be any worse than Allen Iverson, right?"

WRG 2010 Mock Draft - #8 Los Angeles Clippers

Wants are important.  It's not all about needs.  We need everything.  But what do the Clippers want?

What we want with this pick is a guy who is young enough to have untapped potential, but who can play big minutes for us on day one.  We want a wing player or pure PF who can play facing the basket.

When we look at the board, we see a lot of young projects and older players near their ceilings.  We think we are too talented to take on projects.  We are above average at the positions we have filled and we have the cap space to be that way for at least one more.  However, at pick #8, we don't want a specialist or a guy who only does dirty work.  We need a player that is going to give us real production.

We probably would be best off trading up or down from here, but while we see no perfect choice, we think we can get someone here that mostly fits our criteria - our wants.

So with the eighth pick in the 2010 draft we take a guy who is young enough to develop physically and on the court, has shown great skills and big-time production and fills a few huge weaknesses in our team.  We select lefty Luke Babbitt - the guy who will give us most exactly what we want.

Luke was named a McDonald's All-American for 
his outstanding performance working at McDonald's