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By Bill Simmons
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Thursday, June 29, 2006

Let's call this one Draft Diary X. Roman numerals work nicely for Wrestlemanias and Super Bowls, so screw it: Why can't it work for my 10th annual running diary of the NBA draft? I remember the first one back in '97 for my old Web site, when I was typing along happily at my dad's house as new Boston uber-coach Rick Pitino called Chauncey Billups and Ron Mercer his "backcourt for the next decade." We later found out that the Ricktator was measuring the decade in dog years. Fast-forward nine year ...

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