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...turned my eyes to the “D. HOWARD” after the white number one on the big draft board in Madison Square Garden, and then, slowly, back to the aforementioned Howard in front of me. Commissioner David Stern, meanwhile, was announcing that Rafael Araujo had been somehow selected by the Toronto Raptors. And this Howard was, predictably, still smiling...
...yeah, many of them also began signing autographs and taking photos all around MSG, upon fan request. My buddy Juan hilariously decided to fall in the impromptu line and get the dirty basketball we were playing with prior to the Draft signed by what later turned out to be Dwight Howard’s younger brother. Heck, even the elder Mr. Howard, Dwight’s dad, inexplicably took photos and signed programs himself...
...analysts must have blathered on about Okafor at least 50 separate times.) This man’s cousin—by all accounts, one of the more genuine and maybe naïve 6’11” high school graduates ever to cross MSG on Draft Night—shook David Stern’s hand as the number one draft pick...
Editor’s note: Draft Diary, Part Two will continue to offend next Friday...
...Stretching The Troops In Iraq" [June 14] stated that Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry called the Army's unilateral extension of soldiers' enlistments a "back-door draft." But if it weren't for our troops fighting in numerous wars, we might not have the freedoms we have today and America could have become a country like Iraq. The war on terrorism started the day al-Qaeda decided to crash planes into buildings, killing thousands of Americans. I do not blame Bush for this, and I stand by him 100%. If we didn't go to Iraq and stand...