On SI.com Ian Thomsen tells a great story, about Giorgos Printezis, who was drafted 58th overall and whose draft rights now belong to the Toronto Raptors. P. Diddy praised his fashion as some of the best of the night. But it was all purchased in the hours before the draft at Rochester Big & Tall, after the league announced it wouldn't let Printezis on the stage in his athletic wear -- the only clothes he had with him.

Leaving the store with $800 of fresh clothes in tow, Printezis and his agent Kenny Grant couldn't get a cab and were in danger of being late to Madison Square Garden. Thomsen writes:

"We couldn't get a taxi,'' Grant said. "Then a bike went by.''

It was one of those pedaled rickshaws, a bicycle with a carriage in back.

"We said, 'Can you take us to the Garden?''' Grant said. "The guy said, 'Sure. Where is it?' "

The two-mile ride took more than 10 minutes. Printezis, a small forward, is 6-8 and 205 pounds, and Grant is a 6-foot former point guard.

"Every time we would stop for a red light, I felt so sorry for the guy on the bike,'' Grant said. "He was so slow getting started again.''

The rickshaw pulled them down 5th Avenue then across 34th Street against traffic to the back entrance of the Garden.

"He pulls up to that green awning on 33rd,'' Grant said. "All the limos are lined up there for Greg Oden and Kevin Durant, and here we pull up in a rickshaw.''

Printezis ran into the bathroom and changed into his new outfit: a cream linen sportcoat, dark navy slacks and a light blue uncollared shirt. Then he and Grant sat in the audience hoping to hear his name called.

It was a far different experience for Grant than last year, when he and Leon Rose served as agents to No. 1 pick Andrea Bargnani. Hours went by as Grant and Printezis waited.

"When they got to No. 55,'' Grant said, "he leaned over and told me, 'I wasted $800.' "

UPDATE: This is absolutely hilarious, and amazing. You notice that in the introduction to this story I say that P. Diddy loved this guy's fashion? In the original article, at the time I quoted it, there was a hefty quote and everything, straight from Diddy himself:

Now this cat I can get down with. He looks like he's about to breeze through a club down in Miami. I love Miami, I record a lot of my music down there. And Miami cats don't wear those fitted caps, this kid knows how to pull the whole look off. That's Bad Boy, baby! 

That quote is gone now, and I don't wonder why. Tom Ziller emailed to point out that the Diddy quote is from a made up piece of satire on AOL's FanHouse by the hilarious Miss Gossip. It even says at the end of the article: "Editor's note: the preceding conversation may have taken place in Miss Gossip's imagination only."

Which means that not only did SI steal this quote, but they stole it from a source that turned out to be embarrassingly fake. And this is all on the heels of a different SI stealing quotes from blogs incident that resulted in a printed apology in the magazine.