If so, that couldn’t have helped his stock. Just look how an erroneous report about Darrell Arthur’s kidney affected his draft.

As for the airplane business, CBS Sportsline mentioned the same thing, although, I wasn’t sure when the reports of him not wanting be a Piston emerged. Thanks for clearing that up.

The Nets took Brook Lopez at @10 even though he repeatedly refused to work out for them. That happens all the time. At least one player taken after Lopez also had refused to work out for the Nets. The workout is not the defining part of any team’s decision on who to draft. By then, the player has been scouted multiple times by multiple members of the team front office, had his DVD’s scrutinized and sliced into segments by team video analysts.

Then, we have this pathetic story from some anonymous caller to some second-rate sports radio show in Detroit claiming that he had been at the Douglas-Roberts draft party, where Douglas-Roberts said he didnt want to play for Detroit. One problem, as the Memphis Commercial Appeal reported, Douglas Roberts had worked at Calipari’s basketball camp til late in the afternoon, then boarded a flight early in the evening DELIBERATELY timing it so he would miss the draft.

Who knows why Douglas-Roberts didn’t go in the first round. Maybe NBA teams didnt think he was quick enough. But it is silly to suggest that if had worked out for the Pistons they might have picked him. This isn’t about pique. It’s about analysis.

I want that blonde chick in South Beach… Man, what a babe!!!