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Draft night thoughts

By Dick Vitale
ESPN.com

Thursday, June 28, 2007

Some random thoughts as I worked the NBA Draft for ESPN: • So many players are drafted on potential, potential, potential. When teams go out and take freshmen, they only get one year to truly evaluate their play in the pressure of the college environment. That's one reason why I felt the three stars from Florida Al Horford, Corey Brewer and Joakim Noah were solid choices. NBA teams had three years to judge their body of work and there is nothing like the pressure of competing in the ...

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