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The Chicago Bulls hold the 17th pick in the 2010 NBA Draft, and the player they select will likely impact the rest of what looks to be an eventful summer. The 17th pick is just outside of the lottery and has produced some stars and some duds over the past decade. Let's count down all the picks, from the worst selection of the 2000s to the best.Begin Slideshow

The weeks before the draft bring a lot of chatter from NBA front offices about what they plan to do come draft day.  Usually, you can count on this talk being accurate about as much as you can count on Charles Barkley not doing any more commercials. So when some genuine action takes place, as in the trade that occurred today between the Sacramento Kings and the Philadelphia 76ers, you need ...

Victory brings individuals, teams, and fans together. It helps mold athletes into superstars and superstars into legends. With victory, not only comes greatness, but also celebrations. Big celebrations. Some are deemed worthy due to the magnitude of the game, some are just ridiculous. Some are in low-key games, others, in their respective championship games. But they are all victory celebrations because with victory comes satisfaction. Begin Slideshow

This 2010 season was supposed to be the year of LeBron; fortunately for the rest of us, we have a match-up that only the basketball Gods could make possible. You can feel the tremor of excitement permeating the air, the rear ambrosia of a Game 7 that leaves everyone waiting in anticipation. Game 6 is done and now it’s on to basketball's version of Shangri-la, a Game 7. This is no ordinary game. ...

John Wall 6'4'' 195 lbs 19 years old LG Kentucky Dubbed as the Magic Johnson of the iPod generation, John Wall is an eye-popping point guard because of his length and quickness. Point guards that are this 'proto' just don't walk through the YMCA often. I know most basketball junkies go straight to the reference of Dwyane Wade and Rajon Rondo. He's like a mix of those ...

If you graduated from high school in 1996, you will remember that there was a fellow graduate that year whose star shined a bit brighter than everyone else's. While most of us would be heading off to college in the fall of that year, this young man would be preparing for his rookie year in the NBA. Flash forward 14 years and you have 31-year old married father of two, ...

Never in my life will I claim to know more about the game of basketball than "The Logo" himself, but Jerry West stating that Kobe Bryant is "the best Laker ever" is a bit much. Anyone that knows me knows that in the past decade Bryant has surpassed Scottie Pippen and Shaquille O’Neal and my second favorite player of all time (nobody could ever top MJ), ...

The Indiana Pacers are coming off a year where they drafted Tyler Hansbrough and A.J. Price. The second-round pick in Price outperformed Hansbrough. Could the second-round pick for this year's NBA Draft outperform the first-rounder for the Indiana Pacers like in 2009? I guess we'll find out. Here is what I think the Indiana Pacers should do for this year's draft. So without a further ado, here is my Indiana Pacers ...

On my way to the gym this morning the main topic of conversation on the radio was why Steve Kerr had not had his contract taken care of. While I was putting up wall racks in my garage later in the morning, I learned why, as I got the tweet informing me that Kerr was out as general manager. Later came a reason why: owner Robert Sarver had wanted Kerr to ...

As I turn on Game Six of the NBA Finals, I know one thing: I don't want either team to win. Unlike most people, I never wanted a Boston Celtics vs. Los Angeles Lakers finals rematch that had all the hoopla because of the battles in the '80s.  I would much rather see the underdog versus the winner on paper in the NBA Finals, so then I would at least have ...