I know nothing about him, you likely don't either so don't pretend to be happy or unhappy about the unknown.
NBA Draft Profile: Saer Sene
Read the HoopsHype.com interview with him here (from May 4, 2006): Was there any economical pressure that pushed you to enter the draft this year? It happens with many college players that go pro early because they need to provide for their families. Is this the case with you?
SS: No, that's not a problem. The financial situation is not a problem. (His manager says that money is not a concern for him since he has a contract with Charleroi that pays him well and his family is not money-hungry anyway. The buyout of his contract is not really expensive – just the maximum NBA teams are allowed to pay under league rules).
Good luck Sene!
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June 29, 2006
June 27, 2006
Sonics NBA Draft Prediction
1-9 don't care, take THAT mock drafters!
The most extreme thing I could think of for the Sonics to do:
#10 O’Bryant picked by Seattle, traded to the Suns for #21 Alexander Johnson and #27 James White
When that doesn’t happen then the Sonics select with the 10th pick of the 2006 NBA Draft: Ronnie Brewer.
Bobby Jones will be drafted by the Sonics in the second round. Basketball fans too cheap to buy Tyee Club Husky tickets latch onto the Sonics, wear Bobby Jones jerseys to games even though he doesn't play but once every 5 games, and that's for 2 minutes. The next year the Sonics trade Wilkins and Bobby Jones takes his roster spot.
Well, I've channeled Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic, enough for one night, wait...
You're gonna treat yourself to a vanilla ice cream.. you're gonna eat it too fast.. you're gonna get an ice cream headache.. it's gonna hurt.. real bad.. right...
One more thing, have you had enough of the Larry Brown/Isaih Thomas/Knicks jerk session? Please Knicks, pull your pants up, we are all sick of watching you beat each others behinds with newpapers. Once George Karl gets sucked into this story I'm Lewis Black all over this. What's Mr Black's tag line? Oh yes, "Enough already!"
To Hell with the Knicks!
Go Sonics!
The most extreme thing I could think of for the Sonics to do:
#10 O’Bryant picked by Seattle, traded to the Suns for #21 Alexander Johnson and #27 James White
When that doesn’t happen then the Sonics select with the 10th pick of the 2006 NBA Draft: Ronnie Brewer.
Bobby Jones will be drafted by the Sonics in the second round. Basketball fans too cheap to buy Tyee Club Husky tickets latch onto the Sonics, wear Bobby Jones jerseys to games even though he doesn't play but once every 5 games, and that's for 2 minutes. The next year the Sonics trade Wilkins and Bobby Jones takes his roster spot.
Well, I've channeled Ed Glosser: Trivial Psychic, enough for one night, wait...
You're gonna treat yourself to a vanilla ice cream.. you're gonna eat it too fast.. you're gonna get an ice cream headache.. it's gonna hurt.. real bad.. right...
One more thing, have you had enough of the Larry Brown/Isaih Thomas/Knicks jerk session? Please Knicks, pull your pants up, we are all sick of watching you beat each others behinds with newpapers. Once George Karl gets sucked into this story I'm Lewis Black all over this. What's Mr Black's tag line? Oh yes, "Enough already!"
To Hell with the Knicks!
Go Sonics!
June 25, 2006
Loose Lips Sink Ships
The rarest of rare things happened yesterday, there was a trade rumor involving the Sonics.
Here it is from DraftExpress.com:
Multiple sources have told DraftExpress today the a deal that the Pheonix Suns and the Seattle Supersonics are working on a potential blockbuster trade.
Stop DraftExpress! Ok that's likely very true. People say all kinds of things to media for a variety of reasons. Resume DraftExpress.
" The Sonics have implied to numerous people ovewr the past 48 hours that "something is going to go down," while another source in Seattle told us that the Supersonics are "getting very close" to finalizing a trade.
Stop DraftExpress! They say principals are Lewis, 10th pick with Fortson's ending contract for Marion and the 27th pick.
Well, that's far reaching. I would have to wonder who would say such a thing to DraftExpress. I do not doubt that the Sonics are calling teams to talk trade, it was in the newspaper yesterday.
This was written by Frank "the Tank" Hughes in the Tacoma News Tribune yesterday: ...the Sonics are entertaining thoughts of trading down to get a first-round pick next season, giving them two picks in what ostensibly will be a strong draft year.
However, that decision will not be made until next week, according to general manager Rick Sund. Currently, teams are completing their player evaluations. They will take stock of their strategies over the weekend and begin making calls to other teams to talk trade possibilities on Sunday or Monday, with things heating up as the draft approaches.
Stop Frank! The Sonics will call teams and talk trade. Not that Frank thinks they will, Sund says they will.
Now a raking in the order of believability:
#1: The Sonics are calling teams to talk trade. That appears to be a fact.
#2: The Sonics could trade down in the draft (see the rest of Frank's story). That appears to be a fact.
#3: Somebody contacted DraftExpress and said the Sonics are talking to teams (see#1) and that they are close to something (see #1 again), and that the person contacting DraftExpress said the Lewis+Fortson+10th pick for Marion+27th pick. That appears to be a fact.
#4: The Sonics are shopping Fortson. That appears to be a fact.
#5: The Sonics and Suns have had some contact. That appears to very likely (see #1 again).
#6: The Suns and Sonics mentioned Lewis or Fortson or 10th pick or Marion or 27th pick. That appears to somewhat likely (see #1 again).
#7: I'll throw this out there, #10 for #21 and #27. It's possible they mentioned this.
#8: Lewis+Fortson+10th pick for Marion+27th pick, or something a lot like it, is "getting very close ". I'll believe it when it happens, and not one second sooner.
The problem is not this rumor, or that there is a rumor; but the problem is that the Sonics don't ever talk about trades so anything that remotely involves the Sonics becomes a hot potato among the Sonic fans. They are tight lipped. Ray Allen didn't know he was going to be a Sonic until the day/hour it was happening. Payton didn't know he was going to the Bucks until the day/hour. They swapped for each other AND the Bucks were playing the Sonics that night in Seattle. Nobody knew because the Sonics don't talk and insisted that the Bucks (including bigmouth Karl) not talk.
The Sonics just don't talk. Maybe that's changed. Maybe it's crap.
Here it is from DraftExpress.com:
Multiple sources have told DraftExpress today the a deal that the Pheonix Suns and the Seattle Supersonics are working on a potential blockbuster trade.
Stop DraftExpress! Ok that's likely very true. People say all kinds of things to media for a variety of reasons. Resume DraftExpress.
" The Sonics have implied to numerous people ovewr the past 48 hours that "something is going to go down," while another source in Seattle told us that the Supersonics are "getting very close" to finalizing a trade.
Stop DraftExpress! They say principals are Lewis, 10th pick with Fortson's ending contract for Marion and the 27th pick.
Well, that's far reaching. I would have to wonder who would say such a thing to DraftExpress. I do not doubt that the Sonics are calling teams to talk trade, it was in the newspaper yesterday.
This was written by Frank "the Tank" Hughes in the Tacoma News Tribune yesterday: ...the Sonics are entertaining thoughts of trading down to get a first-round pick next season, giving them two picks in what ostensibly will be a strong draft year.
However, that decision will not be made until next week, according to general manager Rick Sund. Currently, teams are completing their player evaluations. They will take stock of their strategies over the weekend and begin making calls to other teams to talk trade possibilities on Sunday or Monday, with things heating up as the draft approaches.
Stop Frank! The Sonics will call teams and talk trade. Not that Frank thinks they will, Sund says they will.
Now a raking in the order of believability:
#1: The Sonics are calling teams to talk trade. That appears to be a fact.
#2: The Sonics could trade down in the draft (see the rest of Frank's story). That appears to be a fact.
#3: Somebody contacted DraftExpress and said the Sonics are talking to teams (see#1) and that they are close to something (see #1 again), and that the person contacting DraftExpress said the Lewis+Fortson+10th pick for Marion+27th pick. That appears to be a fact.
#4: The Sonics are shopping Fortson. That appears to be a fact.
#5: The Sonics and Suns have had some contact. That appears to very likely (see #1 again).
#6: The Suns and Sonics mentioned Lewis or Fortson or 10th pick or Marion or 27th pick. That appears to somewhat likely (see #1 again).
#7: I'll throw this out there, #10 for #21 and #27. It's possible they mentioned this.
#8: Lewis+Fortson+10th pick for Marion+27th pick, or something a lot like it, is "getting very close ". I'll believe it when it happens, and not one second sooner.
The problem is not this rumor, or that there is a rumor; but the problem is that the Sonics don't ever talk about trades so anything that remotely involves the Sonics becomes a hot potato among the Sonic fans. They are tight lipped. Ray Allen didn't know he was going to be a Sonic until the day/hour it was happening. Payton didn't know he was going to the Bucks until the day/hour. They swapped for each other AND the Bucks were playing the Sonics that night in Seattle. Nobody knew because the Sonics don't talk and insisted that the Bucks (including bigmouth Karl) not talk.
The Sonics just don't talk. Maybe that's changed. Maybe it's crap.
June 21, 2006
Some of My Friends are Canadian.
I've have nothing against Canada, some of my friends are Canadian (no, really). So when I dismiss a Canadian writer as a loony Canadian let me say that it isn't his Canadian-ness that is making him a loon, but the fact that he's a sports writer.
Here it is, brace yourself:
My best guess, after talking to all kinds of folks in Dallas, Orlando and Miami, is that there is some sort of trade in the works and I think — for no other reason than it's a good fit — that Seattle's No. 10 pick, in some sort of package that includes Luke Ridnour and maybe Ray Allen, makes some sort of sense.
- Doug Smith of the Toronto Star.
It make sense as long as you are taling to people in Dalls, Orlando and Miami. Maybe Smith should try talking "all kinds of folks" in, let's try, Seattle.
Well, let's hear him out.
Smith rolls through the teams that have picks from Toronto, #1, to Seattle's #10. Here he arrives at a "jumping off point."
Seattle: Ta-da! If I'm Bryan Colangelo, and I'm not, I'd call and offer No. 1 and Charlie Villanueva for No. 10, Allen and Ridnour. That's probably too much for the Sonics to pay to get Morrison or Aldridge, but a good jumping off point for negotiations.
That is too much. That's a deal that sets the Sonics back a few years. It's trading two starters for one, and moving up 9 draft positions in a draft that doesn't have an obviously superior talent at #1 than all others in the draft.
Doug Smith, you are loony. If the jumping off point wasn't suspect enough, how about the fact that you are trading away Villanueva AND passing on drafting LaMarcus Aldridge? Is this in hopes that Bosh doesn't take a beating, or that Kris Humphries or Robert Whaley are better than they really are.
Smith should post that jumping off point at sonicscentral.com using your real name. At some point the good folks there will make your proposal fair. Before you go there, or write something about trades in the NBA, you should know the rules.
You are sending out just over 2 million in salary and taking back 17 million. No can do, Mr Smith. That tells me that either you don't know what you are talking about, or the people you talk to don't know what they are talking about beyond the possibility of the Sonics and Raptors talking. You clearly don't have a clue as to what they could be talking about.
Here it is, brace yourself:
My best guess, after talking to all kinds of folks in Dallas, Orlando and Miami, is that there is some sort of trade in the works and I think — for no other reason than it's a good fit — that Seattle's No. 10 pick, in some sort of package that includes Luke Ridnour and maybe Ray Allen, makes some sort of sense.
- Doug Smith of the Toronto Star.
It make sense as long as you are taling to people in Dalls, Orlando and Miami. Maybe Smith should try talking "all kinds of folks" in, let's try, Seattle.
Well, let's hear him out.
Smith rolls through the teams that have picks from Toronto, #1, to Seattle's #10. Here he arrives at a "jumping off point."
Seattle: Ta-da! If I'm Bryan Colangelo, and I'm not, I'd call and offer No. 1 and Charlie Villanueva for No. 10, Allen and Ridnour. That's probably too much for the Sonics to pay to get Morrison or Aldridge, but a good jumping off point for negotiations.
That is too much. That's a deal that sets the Sonics back a few years. It's trading two starters for one, and moving up 9 draft positions in a draft that doesn't have an obviously superior talent at #1 than all others in the draft.
Doug Smith, you are loony. If the jumping off point wasn't suspect enough, how about the fact that you are trading away Villanueva AND passing on drafting LaMarcus Aldridge? Is this in hopes that Bosh doesn't take a beating, or that Kris Humphries or Robert Whaley are better than they really are.
Smith should post that jumping off point at sonicscentral.com using your real name. At some point the good folks there will make your proposal fair. Before you go there, or write something about trades in the NBA, you should know the rules.
You are sending out just over 2 million in salary and taking back 17 million. No can do, Mr Smith. That tells me that either you don't know what you are talking about, or the people you talk to don't know what they are talking about beyond the possibility of the Sonics and Raptors talking. You clearly don't have a clue as to what they could be talking about.
June 17, 2006
Sonics to Workout Ivan Koljevic
Ivan Koljevic, according to EL CORREO is going to work out for the Rockets and Sonics.
Tenemos confirmados viajes a Houston y Seattle y seguramente tendrá ocasión de visitar más sedes estivales de equipos. Esperamos que esté aquí hasta la elección del 'draft' EL CORREO
What!
Let's Google translate the text; if not for a meaning in english, then for the comedy.
From the office of sport representation that will take care of of Koljevic in its American stay, he recognized myself the MAIL yesterday that the player rojillo will move enough. We have confirmed trips to Houston and Seattle and surely will have occasion to visit more summer seats of equipment. We hoped that it is here until the election of draft. In addition, Koljevic will have extra work in summer since it could be protested by his national equipment to be member of the most numerous group of the one than it will leave the list chosen by Serbia and Montenegro for the World-wide one of Japan.
~ google translated EL CORREO
Hopefully he has progressed past this evaluation published by Draftexpress.com: Ivan Koljevic
Koljevic will turn 22 on June 30; height 6-1, weight 160 (2004 weight); position: point guard.
So, is he a player worth having: drives to the hoop with eiither hand, shoots the euro 3 at 40%.
Is he Mike Wilks replacement or Luke Ridnour insurance? I'll say that if he can play then he's both. Also, the Sonics might want to keep him away from the Rockets.
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June 16, 2006
Now is the Time to Explore and Reflect
The Sonics, and everybody else, have made it back from the predraft camp in Orlando and are now evaluating options. Most teams discover that help for next year isn't there for them in the draft, not unless they are a very bad team with a very high pick. The Sonics, picking at #10, are not bad enough to draft a player for a need. They are not good enough to not find something that will improve the team. The issue may be that that improvement for next is likely to be had in one of two places: the kids get older and wiser, or they make a trade.
14 teams didn't get into the playoffs. About half of those teams are not looking at players in the draft that can make an impact next year. So I expect phones to be ringing around the NBA as other teams settle in to the reality of who they saw in the draft.
The rumors over the next few days should start to build up. The stories should have more of a connection to reality (read: not just wrier speculation). I'll be raking over the net looking for signs of Sonics activity. I expect that they will be looking to make a trade, move the pick, move Danny Fortson, and maybe take a hard look at the future of the Sonics with a new Small Forward. It's not likely, but possible.
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Go Sonics!
June 12, 2006
I just believe this to be the case.
One the Block?
Steve Kyler of Hoopsworld is reporting a rumor that the Sonics are open to trading Ray Allen to "liquidate" his contract from a team that is "especially in the wake of the team being put up for sale
Ray Allen is apparently available, according to a league source who says the Sonics may look to liquidate Ray this summer, especially in the wake of the team being put up for sale. There has been rumors that the Bulls, who own a mountain of cap room, could trade the #2 pick to Seattle in a package for Allen, a Bulls sources says the seems unlikely as Scott Skiles has an aversion to "star" players opting for lesser known guys that will practice
- Steve Kyler
Hmmm, trading Ray Allen and selling the team. I would guess that a buyer would want to choose what to do with an asset after they buy a team and not have somebody else limit those options. So, a draft day trade looks unlikely but not impossible.
It's possible that both are true. It's also possible that Mr. Kyle is repeating a trial balloon.
There was a rumor last year that Trader Bob Whitsett was part of a group looking to buy the Sonics. That rumor didn't go far. Yesterday Ric Bucher said on ESPN radio, NBA Finals Pre-game show, that Trader Bob has surfaced with Microsoft money that doesn't belong to Paul Allen. trader Bob is looking to buy the Blazers. I'll guess that Trader Bob will buy the Sonics with somebody else's money after his attempts to get control of the Blazers is thwarted. The selling price will be absurd, but that's ok since it isn't Bob's money he is spending, again.
I just believe this to be the case. Steve Ballmer sits courtside. I have wondered for a few years if he would have the desire to get involved with the Sonics mess.
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