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"I might be going to my grave," West said, "thinking this was a special day for our franchise." Two picks later, the Utah Jazz struck gold with another rugged college power forward, Paul Millsap, a four-time All-Star.
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Johnson was a fun, physical player, but, like most second-rounders, he didn’t really pan out, lasting only two seasons in the league, one with the Grizzlies. The team’s failing was in selling too low on Lowry a couple of seasons later.
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Relative to draft position, future three-time All-Star Lowry may well be the best draft pick the Grizzlies have ever made. View Playlist: The Memphis Grizzlies NBA draft history
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In a lottery full of landmines (the top pick was Italian forward Andrea Bargnani and two other top five picks, Adam Morrison and Shelden Williams, were busts) Gay probably had the second-best full career, trailing only No. 8 in Gay, who averaged 18 points in seven seasons with the Grizzlies. West was right that the Grizzlies needed to shake up a maxed-out team, and in a rocky draft he got the best player available at No. Still, the judgment here is that West made the right call, even if it didn’t work out quite as well as the franchise hoped. Oddly, a returning Battier would have more memorable playoff heroics in a Grizzlies uniform than Gay. Instead, he watched other players (Zach Randolph, Marc Gasol) pass him in the team’s pecking order before a salary crunch spurred his exit.
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Traded the following season, Gay never played in a playoff series win for the Grizzlies. He starred the next season, when the team was upset, in nauseating fashion, by the Los Angeles Clippers. Gay missed the team’s first playoff run, in 2011, due to injury. As for Gay, he has received interest from the Thunder, among other teams.A lot of fans were upset to see Battier go at the time, and Gay’s subsequent performance - he was a good player in Memphis but never the All-Star West had envisioned - makes the move controversial even today. Denver committed to Paul Millsap on Sunday night, significantly reducing the team’s ability to make a competitive offer to Gallinari. Gallinari is also viewed as a potential target for the Celtics if they miss out on Gordon Hayward, but the Italian forward may no longer be in play for the Nuggets. However, a sign-and-trade could allow for a higher starting salary for either Gallinari or Gay - the Clips were said to be exploring possible sign-and-trade scenarios involving Gallinari earlier on Sunday.
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As such, the team can’t sign a free agent outright for a starting salary higher than the $8.4MM mid-level exception. David Aldridge of TNT tweets that the club’s brass “painted a picture” for Gallinari that showed how he could be a key piece of one of the league’s best frontcourts, along with Blake Griffin and DeAndre Jordan.Įven after trading Chris Paul last week, the Clippers project to be an over-the-cap team this year, in large part due to Griffin’s lucrative new deal. Gallinari has long been a target for the Clippers, according to Wojnarowski, and it sounds like there’s mutual interest between the two sides. Meanwhile, the Clips also had a meeting with Rudy Gay tonight, per Broderick Turner of The Los Angeles Times ( via Twitter). The team’s presentation for Danilo Gallinari, which had been previously reported, made a “strong impression” on the veteran forward, according to Adrian Wojnarowski of ESPN ( Twitter link). The Clippers met with two of their top free agent targets at forward on Sunday, according to various reports.