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Idiot's Guide to the NBA draft

By Bill Simmons
Page 2 columnist

Wednesday, June 26, 2002

Whenever experts discuss the NBA draft, the phrase "It's an inexact science" always seems to pop up ... and it's an absolute crock. The draft is an exact science. Teams always make the same mistakes. Players always fail for the same reasons. The same dumb things always seem to happen. And people make the NBA draft out to be a labyrinth of "Matthew Perry dating Jennifer Capriati"-level proportions. Well, it's not nearly that complicated. So because of the little-known clause in my contract that ...

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