Quinton Ross's stock on the rise?
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2003 3:30 pmInteresting article on CNNSI:
NBA loses 27 early-entry candidates
NEW YORK (AP) -- Charlie Villanueva, who starred with LeBron James in high school all-star games this year, withdrew from the NBA Draft on Friday, one of 27 early entries to drop out.
He joins 7-foot-4 Russian Pavel Podkolzine, considered a potential lottery pick, among the dropouts. Villanueva, who is from Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended Blair Academy in New Jersey, said he will attend the University of Connecticut.
The 6-foot-10 Villanueva, who in the McDonald's all-star game converte two alley-oop dunks from the Akron, Ohio, high school star, originally intended to go to Illinois but changed his mind when coach Bill Self moved to Kansas.
James is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the draft, by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The 18-year-old Podkolzine learned this week that he has a pituitary gland disorder that will require surgery and decided to return to Varese in the Italian League.
Also on the list of pullouts were two other players viewed as possible first-round choices -- 6-9 Viktor Khryapa of Russia and 6-10 Anderson Varcjao of Spain
Three college freshmen, Sani Ibrahim of the College of Southern Idaho Antonio Lawrence of San Jose State and Erazem Lorbek of Michigan State, all pulled their names back, choosing to stay in school.
The withdrawals left 46 early-entry candidates -- 29 college and high school players and 17 international players.
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It certainly can't hurt Q that there are fewer fish in the draft pond.
Will Antonio Lawrence be eligible at San Jose State? I thought I'd read somewhere that academics were an issue with him.
NBA loses 27 early-entry candidates
NEW YORK (AP) -- Charlie Villanueva, who starred with LeBron James in high school all-star games this year, withdrew from the NBA Draft on Friday, one of 27 early entries to drop out.
He joins 7-foot-4 Russian Pavel Podkolzine, considered a potential lottery pick, among the dropouts. Villanueva, who is from Brooklyn, N.Y. and attended Blair Academy in New Jersey, said he will attend the University of Connecticut.
The 6-foot-10 Villanueva, who in the McDonald's all-star game converte two alley-oop dunks from the Akron, Ohio, high school star, originally intended to go to Illinois but changed his mind when coach Bill Self moved to Kansas.
James is expected to be the No. 1 pick in the draft, by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
The 18-year-old Podkolzine learned this week that he has a pituitary gland disorder that will require surgery and decided to return to Varese in the Italian League.
Also on the list of pullouts were two other players viewed as possible first-round choices -- 6-9 Viktor Khryapa of Russia and 6-10 Anderson Varcjao of Spain
Three college freshmen, Sani Ibrahim of the College of Southern Idaho Antonio Lawrence of San Jose State and Erazem Lorbek of Michigan State, all pulled their names back, choosing to stay in school.
The withdrawals left 46 early-entry candidates -- 29 college and high school players and 17 international players.
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It certainly can't hurt Q that there are fewer fish in the draft pond.
Will Antonio Lawrence be eligible at San Jose State? I thought I'd read somewhere that academics were an issue with him.