Results tagged “nbadraft”

The 76ers drafted Marreese Speights, a 6'10", 250-pound center from Florida, with their only pick in the draft last Thursday. Speights is only 20 years old, and is a bit of a mystery entering the draft as a sophomore who had little college experience, having playing time blocked by NBA lotto-picks Al Horford and Joakim Noah.

Sometimes you need to clean yourself up, get serious, and move in with daddie for a few months before you head to Latin America for a new gig. The District bid's Jenna Bush adios. D.C.-based television shows have an elderly audience and DCist has Butterstick the panda bear a birthday bash.

Yes, you read the headline right -- it was a pretty good night for Philadelphia basketball in the NBA Draft. Not as good as it could have been, but at the moment, we aren't complaining.

For us here at Phillyist, the images of one particular cold Tuesday night at the Palestra a few months ago are still seared on our memory. When the halftime buzzer sounded in the annual Holy War clash between Saint Joseph's and Villanova, the Hawks held a stunning 12-point lead over the then-No. 4-ranked Wildcats. The sellout crowd was in a state of shock -- the blue half almost silent, the red half delirious.