The Ringer, Bill Simmons’ successor site to the much lamented Grantland, has an interesting post which reflects on the progress of the 2013 draft class. More correctly, the writer, Jonathan Tjarks, deals with its lack of progress.
He doesn’t mention the Toronto Raptors selection in that draft, which was #12. Ha, ha, fooled ya – the Raptors didn’t have a pick. Then-GM Bryan Colangelo had packaged it and Gary Forbes (c’mon you know…that Gary Forbes) to the Houston Rockets in exchange for a short, chubby and argumentative point guard named Kyle Lowry. The pick was ultimately sent to OKC, who used it to select Steven Adams.