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Nicknames.. everybody has one, everybody needs one. With the 2008 Draft just hours away, it seemed fitting to bestow some new nicknames on this year's top prospects. Some are kind of funny while some are admittedly lame, but either way, its a good change of pace from the same old prognostication.

2008 NBA Draft Nicknames

 

 

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We'll be rolling out our annual 144 Teams in 144 Days preview in just a couple weeks.. so it seemed like a good time to throw out my offseason Top 50 picks. With Draft entries settled, we have a clearer look at what is already shaping up to be another wild and exciting season of college basketball!

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One day after the National Title Game, I took an early stab at projecting the 2009 NCAA Tournament. Now that pro prospects have officially decided their NBA Draft fate, and with our 2008-09 Preview starting in a couple weeks, its a good time to once again take a look at next year's Dance.

 

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A few days after the 2008 NCAA Championship game, I made an early projection of the 08-09 All-Americans to go along with Top 50 and All-Freshman projections. Now that players have officially entered or withdrawn from the Draft, we have a much better sense of how next year's landscape will look:
First Team
G - Brandon Jennings - Arizona
G - Stephen Curry - Davidson
F - Kyle Singler - Duke**
F - Luke Harangody - Notre Dame
F - Tyler Hansbrough - North Carolina

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It's been almost a year since the Portland Trailblazers selected Greg Oden with the #1 overall pick of the 2007 NBA Draft. Here's a comparison of last year's Top 16 prospects versus this year's class.

 

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Overrated or underrated? That is always the question for Draft analysts. In this year's big Overrated/Underrated list, each of this year's Top 50 prospects are compared to their average Mock Draft position (on CHN, NBADraft.net, and DraftExpress.com)

 

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This is the last of five Siegel's Take articles analyzing the 2008 NBA Draft prospects. Today's focus is surprisingly solid set of big men.

As I say every year, its important to note that I'm not as kind as most Draft analysts out there. The reality of the NBA Draft is that only a few guys will be stars, a handful more will be starters, a dozen guys will be career reserves, and the rest will all fizzle into nothingness within a couple of seasons.

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Syracuse forward Donte Greene has signed with agent William Strickland, and will not return to the Orange for his sophomore season. The deciding factor for the powerful long-range shooting small forward was that he was invited to the NBA's exclusive "Physical Only" training camp in Orlando, limited to 16 prospects

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