NBA 2007 Draft Player Rankings by George Rodecker Welcome to Hoopville’s 2007 NBA Draft preview. For the uninitiated, draft preview work has no off-season. It runs continuously from each draft to the next with stops at AAU tourneys, summer leagues, NBA summer camp, college basketball practices and their season of […]

NBA Draft Top Prospects by George Rodecker Rank Player Pos. School/Country Class Height/Weight Index 1 Tyrus Thomas SF LSU Fr. 6-8/217 91.02 2 LaMarcus Aldridge PF Texas So. 6-11/234 90.94 3 Brandon Roy SG Washington Sr. 6-6/207 90.82 4 Andrea Bargani PF Italy Int. 7-0/225 90.69 5 Rudy Gay SF […]

2006 NBA Draft: The Night Before by George Rodecker June 28, 2006 The Scene: Hoopville’s secret draft headquarter hideout somewhere in New York City, New York Holed up here in my own draft foxhole, I notice it’s finally arrived: draft day 2006! Strategically positioned as the lone web-based talent prognosticator […]

Pre-Draft Camp – Day Three by George Rodecker ORLANDO, Fla. – The curtain came down on the Orlando camp as several NBA execs left early to catch flights taking them to Treviso, Italy for the all-important Euro-camp. As in the prior two days there were three games on tap, and […]

Pre-Draft Camp – Day Two by George Rodecker ORLANDO, Fla. – Day 2 offered up three games which may have created more questions than delivered answers about players and their draft night chances. In the day’s first game, Team Four beat Team One 94-78 behind 6 players in double figures. […]

Pre-Draft Camp – Day One by George Rodecker ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando Pre-draft camp kicked off in its new digs with three games on Tuesday. Among the most notable items on the docket are who not here. For many who handicap such things as the NBA Draft the feeling […]

The NBA Draft Preview 2006 by George Rodecker With the NBA’s Pre-Draft Camp about to debut in Orlando after several years in Chicago, we begin to take a deeper and more intense look at the upcoming NBA Draft. The intrigue leading up to this year’s draft is really more about […]

2006 NBA Draft Team Needs by George Rodecker It’s truly amazing to see how some teams target a kid in October and then, remaining focused on him, end up drafting him. Meanwhile some teams take players they never had in for workouts or a physical. To anyone who describes this […]

Portsmouth Invitational Tournament – Day Three by George Rodecker Day three began with spirited play as Sales System was bested in overtime 86-80 by Norfolk Sports Club. Duke’s Sean Dockery played the role of team leader as he dished out several more than the six assists he was credited with […]

Portsmouth Invitational Tournament – Day Four by George Rodecker The final day of the 2006 PIT began with a record-setting performance from Jose Juan Barea, whose 18 assists set the single-game record as Beach Barton Ford toppled Norfolk Sports Club 117-100. Eric Hicks, playing for the injured Kenny Adeleke, scored […]