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The good, the bad and the murky of summer league

By Chad Ford
ESPN Insider

Monday, July 24, 2006

Grading picks on draft night is a shaky proposition. Just an hour or two after the draft is way too early to give a full assessment of how a team selected. We learn a little more in the NBA summer leagues, but summer success isn't a very accurate predictor of stardom, not when players like Loren Woods, Shammond Williams and Nikoloz Tskitishvili have made the honor roll in previous summers. A more accurate gauge of a player's future performance is an inability to thrive in a summer league. If a ...

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