If Austin Daye is available for the Kings to select with the 23rd pick, someone might have lied to him.
He'd like a guarantee from a team that it would select him. Daye said he's heard he'll fall between 9-17.
The lanky small forward from Gonzaga hasn't hired an agent. Daye said he's "pretty dedicated to staying in" the draft with this caveat.
"I really don't want to fall into the 20s," Daye said after his workout Tuesday at the Golden State Warriors practice facility. "If that happens I'm probably going to go back to school, if that's what they're saying."
Daye spent two seasons at Gonzaga. At 6-10, 192 pounds, Daye sees himself creating matchup problems as a small forward or even a power forward like Rashard Lewis.
Daye just doesn't want to wait to be selected after the top-20 picks to show he can do that, even if it might mean going to a better team.
"If you fall to the 20s it could help you and it could hurt you," he said. "You could be buried so far down on the bench you might not get out of that hole."
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Austin needs to shut up and play
All this talk about him needing a guarantee and not wanting to fall into the 20s is just making him look like a prima donna. He needs to stay focused and put the axe to the grindstone to make sure that it’s his skills that get him drafted.
Because, really, what NBA team would ever view Daye’s attitude as a good thing right now? Daye is acting as if he is owed some sort of guarantee from an NBA team. I understand that it may be because he wants to know for sure whether he should go back to school, but that’s the risk of putting your name into the draft! This is one of the weakest drafts in years, there’s no way teams will be guaranteeing anything.
This is the real world, Austin. NBA teams aren’t going to do you any favors. Just stay humble, work hard, and let the chips fall where they may.
The inbound to McGinnis, drives, stops, pumps, shoots, short, no good...AND THE GAME IS OVER! ~ Bill Schonely
by SandbergOnSports on Jun 4, 2009 10:34 AM PDT reply actions
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