Grant's Rant: 11-18-20 The NBA Draft: National Stupid Day

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Grant Napear

Sports, Football, Basketball

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🗓️ 18 November 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Seriously, the NBA draft is today. And many reporters and sports news outlets are going to grade the picks and trades. Right? Who the heck knows what some player coming out of college is really going to do? Think of all the A+ grades that were given to players that aren't even distant memories any longer. What happens with these grades 4 years later? How did they really pan out if they were A+ picks? I'll tell you with my examples in today's rant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	It's time for Grant, Grant.
0:05.0	Hi again everybody, time for another Grant's
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0:13.2	com any W rx plumbing dot com all right it is the NBA draft which means that
0:20.0	tomorrow is national stupid day that's right Tomorrow is when you get a chance to
0:24.7	look at all of the NBA folks coast to coast and they come out with their
0:29.5	draft day grades. I say this every year. It has got to be the most stupid, ridiculous thing in the world.
0:36.0	But riders and people that cover the NBA, they do it anyway because their boss says, hey, I need material,
0:42.0	or they want to come back three or four years later and say see
0:46.0	I told you so I told you that was going to be a great pick the problem is very often
0:51.2	they're wrong let's have some fun today right let's go back to
0:55.1	2012 remember that great draft for the Sacramento Kings when they took Thomas
1:00.4	Robinson with the fifth overall pick. How about CBS Sports? They gave the Kings
1:05.4	an A-plus and they said a relentless rebounder. This was a terrific get for Jeff
1:10.2	Petrie, one of the best drafters in the NBA.
1:12.8	Bleacher report gave the Kings an A-minus.
1:15.1	If you look at the Kings Front Court,
1:16.9	a pairing of Demarcus Cousins and Robinson
1:19.4	should garner 20 plus rebounds per night.
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