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Wiz Pictorial: ‘Shaking the Hand of Stern’
By Jamie Mottram | June 26, 2009
Since we were robbed of seeing Ricky Rubio don an awful-looking Wizards hat, walk across the stage and take the hand of Commissioner Stern in a firm grip, here’s looking at players past who have had the honor. And, you know, the longer you look at actual Wizards draft picks (this includes every first-rounder of the post-Bullets era, by the way), the more comfortable you get with the idea of them being traded away.
1999, No. 7 overall: Rip Hamilton (traded to Detroit for Jerry Stackhouse)
2001, No. 1: Kwame Brown (traded to L.A. for Caron Butler)
2002, No. 11: Jared Jeffries (left via free agency)
2002, No. 17: Juan Dixon (left via free agency, returned, dismissed)
2003, No. 10: Jarvis Hayes (left via free agency)
2004, No. 5: Devin Harris (traded along with Stackhouse to Dallas for Antawn Jamison)
2006, No. 18: Oleksiy Pecherov (traded to Minnesota)
2007, No. 16: Nick Young (still getting warmed up)
Topics: High Fashion, Infinite Sadness, Wizards | 3 Comments »
June 26th, 2009 at 12:06 PM
Sure last night sucked, but it was still better than 2002!
June 26th, 2009 at 12:36 PM
Epic. Fail.
We could have at least had Stern shake hands with that $3 mil check with a Wizards sticker on it. That would at least been worth a few chuckles…
I hate everybody…
June 27th, 2009 at 10:28 AM
This is an extremely depressing series of pics. Jesus.