With draft just moments away, Ben Woodside waits
Posted on June 25th, 2009 – 6:33 PMBy Jerry Zgoda
While we wait for Blake Griffin to step up to the podium…
Albert Lea’s own Ben Woodside, the former NDSU guard, is watching tonight’s draft with his family from a hotel room in Chicago, where he has been living and working out the past two months because that’s where his agents are based.
There’s an outside chance somebody — Portland perhaps, or maybe even the Wolves? — takes a flyer on him in the second round.
But Woodside — the guy who scored 37 in that NCAA first-round tourney loss to Kansas at the Metrodome — isn’t betting on it.
“To be honest, I don’t expect much to happen,” he said earlier today. “I’m grateful for the opportunity to get in front of a number of team. I’m not nervous about anything. I’m not expected to get draft anyway. But I’ll be watching.”
Woodside said he worked out for 10 teams — San Antonio, Miami, Chicago, Detroit, Utah, Portland, Sacramento, Utah, Denver and the Wolves — leading up to tonight.
“A lot more than I expected coming out of college,” he said. “I’ve been racking up the frequent flyer miles. Hopefully, I have enough for a free trip.”
He probably won’t have to pay his own way to Las Vegas next month. If he doesn’t get drafted, he’ll likely be there as a free-agent signee for someone summer-league team.
76 Responses to "With draft just moments away, Ben Woodside waits"
gl to him
C’mon Thunder. Just take Harden and be done with it…
Harden’s gonna drop, maybe as far as eight
hopefully
Jerry:
ESPN and Draft Express report Harden going to the Thunder…should be interesting to see how it unfolds
I hope we dont take him
Now it gets interesting
Nah. Unless we swing a deal in the next few minutes, this pick will be Thabeet.
Pick #2 is where it gets interesting.
yes
ATTN: Thunder
Take Harden
I hope OKC and Sac pass on Evans
I’ll believe Presti takes Harden third when I see it. He may end up with him when all’s said and done, but it will be a circuitous route
Hopefully bryan
Well, let’s see if Kahn works the phones to try and trade for Thabeet. Could happen, depending on how the next 4 picks go.
I want the opposite of whatever ChrisH wants (he’s infatuated with Evans, obviously). . .
Yes, we will get Rubio or Evans now
YESSS!!!!!!
Nooooo!
Rubio is ours. Unless Sactown has a brain fart
lol at Matty
They took Harden!
We get either Rubio or Evans. I don’t care which one, as long as it’s one of them. And it will be.
I used to be down on Harden, but I kind of wanted him at this point. Who knows, maybe we’ll still end up with him?
Assuming Westbrook gets better. and stops giving away so many posessions with bad shots. OKC is going to be very good.
I’ll guess Rubio and Curry. Maybe a move with Curry after the Knicks pick. Rubio, Chandler and ????
Great organization……..
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Yesss!
Ok, Rubio, Curry. Curry to NYK, we get chandler and???
No words for my sadness
C’mon Kahn. Take Rubio!!
Yes! No Evans!
Yes no Evans!
Ruuuuuuuubbbbbbbbbbiiiiiiiioooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!
I wanted Evans; am bummed.
Yippppppeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better get a big guard somewhere tonight
Well played by Kahn. Got his man without giving up the farm.
Kahn is a genius!
DAMN RIGHT!!
Rubio? Check.
Next? Curry. What is available at the 2 guard if they trade him to NYK and get Chandler?
My Euro team says thanks for paying out the butt for me. I’m a bust. Suckers!!!!!
He doesn’t seem too pumped to be a Wolf
Curry now……
No Curry, we will have the weakest and smallest backcourt in the league
They might take another pure point (like Flynn) and trade him for a pure (veteran) two guard.
It’s gonna be Curry. Whether we keep him….
Any wonder why Van Gundy is not in the discussion for coaching this team? He thinks anyone playing a team this young won’t last a year and a half.
We also have a big chance to move up from the 18. This is a big night.
Who could they pick in order to trade with OKC for Harden? That also might happen here.
wtf, who are we trading
That makes no sense to me.
Oh my. There is a big trade in the offing. Rubio to NYC…
I am a prophet
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooo….
Whooaaa. That was unexpected.
I’m sensing a trade coming up now…
FLYNN??????????????????
TRADE IS IN THE OFFING…
WE just maximized the value of the No. 6 pick, but we’ll move Flynn tonight.
now what
It’s gotta be a trade coming??? but why not just pick Curry you know NY wants him???
WHAT ?!?!?!?!!?
We have to be looking to trade now…. but to who?
Bet they move Rubio to NYC for Curry and Chandler
I bet we can get more trading Flynn or Rubio than we can trading Curry to New York.
NYK wants Rubio more than Curry. If they get Curry we’ll have Flynn and Curry
WTF!!! There has to be a trade! And NOT Rubio!!!
Milwaukee?
Might be an already-agreed-to trade out there…
I read that after 1 p.m. today that teams can’t make any trades official until the draft begins.
So it may already be done…
WTF?? I’m sure they’ll be trading one of the better of the two players… It’ll be Roy for Foye deja vu again.
Keeping both!!!
whoa! That blew up my theory. Still, there’s going to be a trade.
We’re not going to get Curry from NYK…. but I’d love to trade Flynn to NYK for Wilson Chandler and the 8th pick…
Maybe this next pick will be our selection being made by The Knicks just for formality sakes.
ESPN says they are keeping both because they think they can play together !
New thread guys. . .
I am all for keeping both….
I absolutely love both Flynn and Rubio… so I’m torn about trading one of them.
All the folks who think Al and Love can’t play together are going to go nuts if we keep Rubio and Flynn.
If we had a pre-arranged deal with The Knicks, they wouldn’t have just taken Jordan Hill.
