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Jorts Shouldn’t have been Drafted; Liggins Squeezed Out


FoxSports.com has some shady draft analysis of Josh Harrellson and DeAndre Liggins getting selected last night in the 2nd round of the NBA Draft.

This sounds like sour grapes to me.
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[TD=”class: round”]2
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[TD=”class: pick”]45
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[TD=”class: dTeams”][URL=”http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/team/new%20orleans-hornets/71077″]HORNETS[/URL]
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[TD][URL=”http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/draft/prospect?prospectId=469488″]Josh Harrellson[/URL]
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[TD=”class: position”]PF
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[TD=”class: height”]6-10
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[TD=”class: weight”]275
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[TD][URL=”http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/team/kentucky-wildcats-basketball/71687″]Kentucky[/URL]
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[TD=”class: tracker-comments, colspan: 5″]Prospect Rank: 79 Traded to Knicks. Josh Harrellson is not an NBA player. Congrats to him for getting drafted, but he’s got no business being taken. He’s tall and he works hard. That?s it.

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[TD=”class: round”]2
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[TD=”class: pick”]53
[/TD]
[TD=”class: dTeams”][URL=”http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/team/orlando-magic/71093″]MAGIC[/URL]
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[TD][URL=”http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/draft/prospect?prospectId=469487″]DeAndre Liggins[/URL]
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[TD=”class: position”]G
[/TD]
[TD=”class: height”]6-6
[/TD]
[TD=”class: weight”]210
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[TD][URL=”http://msn.foxsports.com/collegebasketball/team/kentucky-wildcats-basketball/71687″]Kentucky[/URL]
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[TD=”class: teams, colspan: 3″][/TD]
[TD=”class: tracker-comments, colspan: 5″]Prospect Rank: 54 Liggins essentially got squeezed out of Kentucky to make room for all the top recruits. He lacks the athleticism that some of the other defensive guards in this draft have had.
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I’d like to blame this on Jeff Goodman, but he left Fox….

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