Ford - Royce White Likely Gone Before Celtics Pick

[Kane3387]

Looks like Denver really likes him.

Analysis: Sorry, Celtics fans. Word on the street is that the Nuggets will step in and steal away White before he lands in Boston. The front office is a fan of his ability to be a playmaker from the power forward position and thinks he's a nice complement to Kenneth Faried and Danilo Gallinari.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2012/story/_/id/8105981/nba-mock-draft-version-10

Has us taking Nicholson and Sullinger. Has us passing on Perry Jones III who goes 24 to the Cavs.

[rondohondo]

that's why Boston is trying to trade up, at least I hope ...

Plus Royce is who Atlanta likes so he could be traded for Smith along with bradley and Bass next week

[j804]

Looks like Denver really likes him.

Analysis: Sorry, Celtics fans. Word on the street is that the Nuggets will step in and steal away White before he lands in Boston. The front office is a fan of his ability to be a playmaker from the power forward position and thinks he's a nice complement to Kenneth Faried and Danilo Gallinari.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2012/story/_/id/8105981/nba-mock-draft-version-10

Has us taking Nicholson and Sullinger. Has us passing on Perry Jones III who goes 24 to the Cavs.

They snatched up Faried when we wanted him and now White smh

[Snakehead]

Looks like Denver really likes him.

Analysis: Sorry, Celtics fans. Word on the street is that the Nuggets will step in and steal away White before he lands in Boston. The front office is a fan of his ability to be a playmaker from the power forward position and thinks he's a nice complement to Kenneth Faried and Danilo Gallinari.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2012/story/_/id/8105981/nba-mock-draft-version-10

Has us taking Nicholson and Sullinger. Has us passing on Perry Jones III who goes 24 to the Cavs.

They snatched up Faried when we wanted him and now White smh

Just tweeted that.  Wanted Faried so bad last year and now White?  Denver is just trolling us.

I hope we move up if we have to just get him.

[MBunge]

Royce is tempting, but there's so many guys in this draft who could turn into surprisingly good players, I'm not going to be brokenhearted if someone else takes on him, his anxiety and his tweener game.

Mike

[Quetzalcoatl]

I honestly don't care at this point.  The only players I'm not into are Festus, Fab and Sullinger.  If we get any combo of any of the other players slated to land to us, great.  It's also likely that a major talent could fall into our hands.  Let's just wait it out

[perks-a-beast]

 

folks...it's looking like Andrew Nicholson is going to be a Celtic. Yikes. Not a fan. like AT ALL.

[ManUp]

I'm happy about this. I find it hard to believe Danny goes with two PF's back to back though. Hard to pass on PJIII at this range. I have my fingers crossed for Quincy Miller, Ford has him 3rd on our big board.

[Lucky17]

Looks like Denver really likes him.

Analysis: Sorry, Celtics fans. Word on the street is that the Nuggets will step in and steal away White before he lands in Boston. The front office is a fan of his ability to be a playmaker from the power forward position and thinks he's a nice complement to Kenneth Faried and Danilo Gallinari.

http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/draft2012/story/_/id/8105981/nba-mock-draft-version-10

Has us taking Nicholson and Sullinger. Has us passing on Perry Jones III who goes 24 to the Cavs.

Is this is Chad Ford? He said the same thing in the mock draft with Simmons, but it sounded purely hypothetical, and not based on anything more than a hunch/spite:

FORD: I'm taking Royce White. Such an intriguing player. Could be the next Anthony Mason. He gets on the right team with a coach that will play him to his strengths. I'm not sure that's George Karl by the way — Karl may kill him — but remember I'm taking White just to make Bill and Danny Ainge angry. Plus, White may be one of the all-time most interesting players the NBA has seen since Bison Dele. Loved that Grantland feature on him. Love that he's the only prospect in the history of the draft to compare himself to John Lennon. Have fun with Sullinger. I'll go ahead and order a welcome gift for him. I sort of like this one. Wonder if it comes in green.

SIMMONS: You took Royce White? You took Royce White???

FORD: I did.

SIMMONS: How could you do that? You knew that was my guy! You knew I built the Royce White "We Had To Build This Bandwagon Because Royce Isn't Crazy About Flying" Bandwagon from scratch just so I'd be in the driver's seat when we took him. You knew I made Abrams write a 6,000-word feature to get the rest of the Celtics fans excited. You knew we just spent the last 7,000 words of this mock draft building toward the moment when I gleefully typed in all caps, "AT 21, THE CELTICS TAKE MY MAN ROYCE WHITE, A.K.A. THE STEAL OF THE DRAFT!!!" You even knew I passed on him at 15, 17 and 19 just so he'd be sitting there at 21. This is the worst thing you've ever done to me, Chad Ford. I'm crestfallen. I'm not even mock crestfallen, I'm legitimately crestfallen.

Can you just take Sullinger? What if I traded you the rights to Charlotte's second-round pick in 2013 that Boston just got because OKC's doctors were slightly shady before the Jeff Green trade — not first-round shady, but second-round shady — to swap 20 and 21? You get Sullinger for Denver, I get Royce for Boston. Come on. Just say yes. Come on. Do it for Morrison's mustache. Do it for Yi's chair. Do it for Darko's everything. Come on.

FORD: Only way I do this is if you give me 21 and 22. Because if I'm taking a guy with a back problem, I'm gonna need a plan B. By the way, I predict this is exactly what Masai does to Danny on draft night. Can't let those promises leak …

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[Fafnir]

Not surprised, honestly after 13 or so I think every player we've been linked to could be picked.

[Chris]

That's it, I'm moving to Canada!