Dispelling a Waiters myth for the time being
It truly is the time of disinformation – or maybe misinformation -- around the NBA and the draft right now.
There was all kinds of buzz here in Chicago that Syracuse guard Dion Waiters had a “promise” from some team near the top of the draft and that’s why he’s pulled out of the pre-draft combine.
Of course, it set the chattering masses alight because Waiters can score, the Raptors need a scorer and, well, why wouldn’t it make sense.
And it still might, except for the fact there’s no “promise” from Toronto; quite the contrary, actually.
Here’s Bryan Colangelo, not 15 minutes ago:
"His agent has told me there's a promise to another team. Regardless, if he's on the board he's in our mix."
So, on we go, more days of speculation ahead of us but you might want to hold off on getting the Waiters replica jerseys made at the moment.
Okay, off to the media session with these kids in a bit, will get whatever news I can.
Would you really expect BC to say otherwise if he had made the promise?
Blogger's note: Arrrggghhhhh!!!!!!
Posted by: Naveed | June 08, 2012 at 10:47 AM
wow......so Waiters did get a promise from someone (should be pretty legit since it's coming from BC directly)......why would any team want to do that?
Blogger's note: No clue; makes no sense to me to limit yourself this early in the process.
Posted by: SY | June 08, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Hey Doug, do you find it a little odd that a guy who no one projects as a lottery pick (top 14) would shut down his chances to move up?
Posted by: john | June 08, 2012 at 11:15 AM
doug, can you explain what you mean by "promise"... is it "promise" to draft him so there is no reason for him to workout for anyone else?
Blogger's note: Yes, that would be it; for what it's worth.
Posted by: AT | June 08, 2012 at 11:19 AM
Didn't really make sense to me anyway, even if you were the team offering such a "promise" (for what that would be worth anyway with a few weeks to go still, which is nothing) surely you'd still want to see the kid workout as much as possible.
Posted by: Steve | June 08, 2012 at 11:23 AM
Obviously an agent ploy to get some attention for his client.
What teams, in their right minds, would limit themselves to something like this so quickly?
Ridiculous.
Nice try Mr. Agent.
You are getting played, Mr. Waiters.
Poor kids.
Posted by: Ren | June 08, 2012 at 11:28 AM
Take him if he's there at #8... As a Syracuse fan too, he's way too good to pass up
Posted by: Matt | June 08, 2012 at 12:21 PM