2014 NBA Combine Thread (Measurements Are Posted)

[sofutomygaha]

Good morning, guys! Finally some basketball content that's relevant to Celtics fans- today's NBA draft combine starts in 30 minutes. Chad Ford just tweeted this group photo with all of the top prospects who will be participating today:

https://twitter.com/chadfordinsider/status/466696542930612224/photo/1

I'm getting excited to see these guys in action!!!

[BleedGreen1989]

Wish I could find a live stream. Don't have ESPNU

[sofutomygaha]

Last year's combine was really interesting because of who participated (Olynyk, Gobert, Schroeder, Zeller, Adams).

This year, are any of you interested in seeing a single one of these participants apart from Dante Exum?

[sofutomygaha]

and according to Ford's tweet earlier in the day, Exum is skipping the drills. =(

[lon3lytoaster]

Why don't they do the lottery prior to the combine? Feel like they really stretch out when the lottery takes place, but I feel like it'd make more sense for interviewing purposes and such. Would also save me from being so anxious lol

[sed522002]

King's Isaiah Thomas had a funny tweet about these guys skipping combine.

Isaiah Thomas ‏@Isaiah_Thomas2 
NBA pre draft= where guys hide from competition... Can't hide forever lol

[sofutomygaha]

Dante Exum measured 6-6 in shoes, 196 pounds with a 6'9.75 wingspan.

So he's somewhere between Gilbert Arenas and Jamal Crawford.

Kelly Olynyk has the same wingspan. nice.

[Mr October]

and according to Ford's tweet earlier in the day, Exum is skipping the drills. =(

Oh come on, what is he afraid of? Exum is threatening to become the Yi Jianliang of Australia!!

I bet he drills great against chairs too.

[sofutomygaha]

Copying from fantankerous (TP) in the Vonleh thread:


Per a Jonathon Givony tweet from the combine, Vonleh measured:

6'8" without shoes
7'4.75" wingspan
11.75" hand length (second all-time to Greg Smith's 12")

[BleedGreen1989]

Chad Ford

"Dante Exum measured 6-6 in shoes, 196 pounds with a 6'9.75 wingspan. That's huge for a NBA PG."

[sofutomygaha]

NBA stats is keeping the measurements updated. Nice

It's too bad Isaiah Austin doesn't play basketball better. He's like Gobert with a jumpshot... extremely long and yet inexplicably useless

http://stats.nba.com/draftCombineAnthro.html?pageNo=1&rowsPerPage=100&sortField=WINGSPAN&sortOrder=DES

[lon3lytoaster]

Hmm Stauskas measured pretty well. On the off chance he's there at 17 I'd really like him provided there isn't an obvious slipper.

[manl_lui]

Dante Exum measured 6-6 in shoes, 196 pounds with a 6'9.75 wingspan.

So he's somewhere between Gilbert Arenas and Jamal Crawford.

Kelly Olynyk has the same wingspan. nice.

so Kelly is a T-Rex? lol Kelly is a 7 footer, and Exum is 6'6

[CFAN38]

http://www.draftexpress.com/nba-pre-draft-measurements/?year=2014&sort2=DESC&draft=0&pos=0&source=NBA%20Draft%20Combine&sort=6

[moiso]

So Randle is about the same height as Gordon and has slightly longer reach and wingspan.  That's a little surprising to me.