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How Eva Amurri
Will Keep Her Shape for Her Wedding
In anticipation of Eva Amurri's big day – when she marries Fox Soccer Channel commentator Kyle Martino later this year – the actress already has her fitness regime in mind.
"I'm a huge fan of the bar method, and I've been doing it for the past year so," Amurri, 26, told PEOPLE at Perrier-Jouet's 200th Anniversary party at Manhattan's Mondrian Soho, which she attended with her mother, Susan Sarandon. "I think I'm going to take a break and then restart right before my wedding so that everything looks as good as it can."
Amurri welcomes the outdoor recreational possibilities offered by summer. "I try not to get too crazy about it," she said. "Actually, when I was so crazy about working out is when I was heavier. And it's funny when you just relax about it."
Attempting not to obsess about her figure, Amurri said, "I want to be able to have a slider two nights before my wedding and not freak out about it.
Will Keep Her Shape for Her WeddingIn anticipation of Eva Amurri's big day – when she marries Fox Soccer Channel commentator Kyle Martino later this year – the actress already has her fitness regime in mind.
"I'm a huge fan of the bar method, and I've been doing it for the past year so," Amurri, 26, told PEOPLE at Perrier-Jouet's 200th Anniversary party at Manhattan's Mondrian Soho, which she attended with her mother, Susan Sarandon. "I think I'm going to take a break and then restart right before my wedding so that everything looks as good as it can."
Amurri welcomes the outdoor recreational possibilities offered by summer. "I try not to get too crazy about it," she said. "Actually, when I was so crazy about working out is when I was heavier. And it's funny when you just relax about it."
Attempting not to obsess about her figure, Amurri said, "I want to be able to have a slider two nights before my wedding and not freak out about it.
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Tom Hanks
On Univision
: Weather Segment Dance
Tom Hanks is hitting the press junket hard, pitching his new comedy, "Larry Crowne," to anyone and everyone -- regardless of what language they speak. And it was during a four segment, lost-in-translation appearance on Spanish language Univision's "Despierta America" that Hanks may have actually trumped his comedic film with a bizarrely hilarious set of dance moves.
After roughly understanding what the hosts had to say, Hanks moved over to do the weather -- and show some flair. While reading the temperatures, he danced with the normal meteorological presenter in a non-step series of amazing -- and for his sake, hopefully unplanned -- dance moves.
And it tired him out.
"Gotta love Univision! What a fun hour that was, peppers for breakfast! Que bueno! Hanx" the star later tweeted.
On Univision: Weather Segment DanceTom Hanks is hitting the press junket hard, pitching his new comedy, "Larry Crowne," to anyone and everyone -- regardless of what language they speak. And it was during a four segment, lost-in-translation appearance on Spanish language Univision's "Despierta America" that Hanks may have actually trumped his comedic film with a bizarrely hilarious set of dance moves.
After roughly understanding what the hosts had to say, Hanks moved over to do the weather -- and show some flair. While reading the temperatures, he danced with the normal meteorological presenter in a non-step series of amazing -- and for his sake, hopefully unplanned -- dance moves.
And it tired him out.
"Gotta love Univision! What a fun hour that was, peppers for breakfast! Que bueno! Hanx" the star later tweeted.
***
Immortals (2011)
The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king's mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion's raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra, her disturbing visions of the young man's future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity.
Genres: Action/Adventure and Fantasy
Release Date: November 11th, 2011 (wide)
Distributors: Relativity Media
The brutal and bloodthirsty King Hyperion and his murderous Heraklion army are rampaging across Greece in search of the long lost Bow of Epirus. With the invincible Bow, the king will be able to overthrow the Gods of Olympus and become the undisputed master of his world. With ruthless efficiency, Hyperion and his legions destroy everything in their wake, and it seems nothing will stop the evil king's mission. As village after village is obliterated, a stonemason named Theseus vows to avenge the death of his mother in one of Hyperion's raids. When Theseus meets the Sybelline Oracle, Phaedra, her disturbing visions of the young man's future convince her that he is the key to stopping the destruction. With her help, Theseus assembles a small band of followers and embraces his destiny in a final desperate battle for the future of humanity.
Genres: Action/Adventure and Fantasy
Release Date: November 11th, 2011 (wide)
Distributors: Relativity Media
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Nokia unveils N9 smartphone
Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity.
Once the undisputed leader in hand phones, Nokia has rapidly lost ground in the smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, and at the low end of the market to Asian rivals such as China's ZTE and India's Micromax.
At a telecoms conference in Singapore, Elop reiterated that Nokia would launch its first smartphone using Microsoft's Windows platform later this year, even as he unveiled the new all-screen N9 smartphone, which uses a platform called MeeGo.
The model -- Nokia's first and last to use MeeGo -- can be navigated by a single finger swipe and comes in black, cyan and magenta colors in a polycarbonate design.
"It seems pointless to launch a phone like the N9 on a platform that has been cut by management," RBS analyst Didier Scemama in London said in a research note.
Elop said the N9 was part of Nokia's drive to introduce "an exciting experience around the user interface, the industrial design and the developer platform".
"Our primary smartphone strategy is to focus on the Windows phone," said Elop, who moved to Nokia from Microsoft last year.
"I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012."
The MeeGo platform -- a newcomer in the market dominated by Google Inc and Apple Inc -- was born in February 2010 when Nokia and Intel unveiled a merger of Nokia's Linux Maemo software platform with Intel's Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-source software.
Nokia pulled back from the project four months ago.
"The N9 comes too close to the expected launch of Nokia's Windows Phone device to have any impact on its current smartphone woes," said Ben Wood, head of research at London-based mobile consultancy CCS Insight.
"The strength of rival ecosystems leaves little room for MeeGo powered devices. It's difficult to see the N9 being anything more than a niche device ... the N9 will be a tough sell."
Research firm IDC's analyst Melissa Chau said the N9 would probably be a prototype to showcase what Nokia can bring in future phones.
"I don't expect, and don't even think Nokia expects, this phone to turn around their fortunes," she said. "All it wants to do with the phone is to inspire some confidence in people that they are not out of the game yet."
Nokia's head of design Marko Ahtisaari, in a dig at Apple's iPhone 4, said the N9's polycarbonate body would give the phone "extremely good antenna performance, so unlike some competitor products, you do not need to hold it in special way to have reliable phonecalls".
FEW CLUES ON STRATEGY
Elop's speech in Singapore was billed by Nokia as "an update on progress in our new strategy", but he provided few details on how he planned to tackle the company's troubles.
Last month, Nokia said it had abandoned hope of meeting key targets just weeks after setting them, raising questions over whether Elop can deliver on a turnaround he promised in February.
Nokia's market value has plunged by more than half since February, after the leak of a memo from Elop that compared the company's market position to a man standing on a burning oil platform.
Nokia's market share has fallen in key markets. In China, for example, it has shrunk to 19 percent from 33 percent two years ago, research firm Gartner estimates.
So-called no-brand handset manufacturers -- small Chinese firms using low-cost chipsets -- control 45 percent of the market in the world's most populous country, Gartner said.
Nokia's woes bear a striking resemblance to troubles at Research In Motion, whose dismal results and failure to deliver exciting new devices on time pushed its shares more than 20 percent lower on Friday.
Shares in the Blackberry maker fell a further 7 percent on Monday after a marketing executive left the company, the second departure in four months and the latest news contributing to a halving in the company's market value this year.
IDC's Chau said Elop's presentation on Tuesday gave few clues on Nokia's future strategies to get back on track.
"From what they have announced today it is really hard to say because they left out so many details," she said.
"It will take a lot of cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia to do it and with this kind of business deal we only have a 50-50 percent (chance) to begin with."
Nokia also said it plans to launch up to 10 new smartphones using its own Symbian operating system. It introduced three affordable handsets which can use dual sim-cards, years after Asian rivals put such features into their phones.
"Any new products by Nokia will be a stop-gap ... until its first Microsoft phone is out in the market," said Seo Won-seok, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities in Seoul.
"It won't be easy for Nokia to aggressively market these products and even new product lineups will be limited given that it is spending heavy resources in developing Windows phones. Under such circumstances, I'm quite doubtful whether they'll get a strong response from customers."
In a research note this month, Nomura said Samsung Electronics would become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter and Apple would take the number two spot next quarter, pushing Nokia to third place.
Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop unveiled a new smartphone on Tuesday that uses software the firm plans to ditch, a move analysts said would probably condemn the device to obscurity.
Once the undisputed leader in hand phones, Nokia has rapidly lost ground in the smartphone market to Apple's iPhone and Google's Android devices, and at the low end of the market to Asian rivals such as China's ZTE and India's Micromax.
At a telecoms conference in Singapore, Elop reiterated that Nokia would launch its first smartphone using Microsoft's Windows platform later this year, even as he unveiled the new all-screen N9 smartphone, which uses a platform called MeeGo.
The model -- Nokia's first and last to use MeeGo -- can be navigated by a single finger swipe and comes in black, cyan and magenta colors in a polycarbonate design.
"It seems pointless to launch a phone like the N9 on a platform that has been cut by management," RBS analyst Didier Scemama in London said in a research note.
Elop said the N9 was part of Nokia's drive to introduce "an exciting experience around the user interface, the industrial design and the developer platform".
"Our primary smartphone strategy is to focus on the Windows phone," said Elop, who moved to Nokia from Microsoft last year.
"I have increased confidence that we will launch our first device based on the Windows platform later this year and we will ship our product in volume in 2012."
The MeeGo platform -- a newcomer in the market dominated by Google Inc and Apple Inc -- was born in February 2010 when Nokia and Intel unveiled a merger of Nokia's Linux Maemo software platform with Intel's Moblin, which is also based on Linux open-source software.
Nokia pulled back from the project four months ago.
"The N9 comes too close to the expected launch of Nokia's Windows Phone device to have any impact on its current smartphone woes," said Ben Wood, head of research at London-based mobile consultancy CCS Insight.
"The strength of rival ecosystems leaves little room for MeeGo powered devices. It's difficult to see the N9 being anything more than a niche device ... the N9 will be a tough sell."
Research firm IDC's analyst Melissa Chau said the N9 would probably be a prototype to showcase what Nokia can bring in future phones.
"I don't expect, and don't even think Nokia expects, this phone to turn around their fortunes," she said. "All it wants to do with the phone is to inspire some confidence in people that they are not out of the game yet."
Nokia's head of design Marko Ahtisaari, in a dig at Apple's iPhone 4, said the N9's polycarbonate body would give the phone "extremely good antenna performance, so unlike some competitor products, you do not need to hold it in special way to have reliable phonecalls".
FEW CLUES ON STRATEGY
Elop's speech in Singapore was billed by Nokia as "an update on progress in our new strategy", but he provided few details on how he planned to tackle the company's troubles.
Last month, Nokia said it had abandoned hope of meeting key targets just weeks after setting them, raising questions over whether Elop can deliver on a turnaround he promised in February.
Nokia's market value has plunged by more than half since February, after the leak of a memo from Elop that compared the company's market position to a man standing on a burning oil platform.
Nokia's market share has fallen in key markets. In China, for example, it has shrunk to 19 percent from 33 percent two years ago, research firm Gartner estimates.
So-called no-brand handset manufacturers -- small Chinese firms using low-cost chipsets -- control 45 percent of the market in the world's most populous country, Gartner said.
Nokia's woes bear a striking resemblance to troubles at Research In Motion, whose dismal results and failure to deliver exciting new devices on time pushed its shares more than 20 percent lower on Friday.
Shares in the Blackberry maker fell a further 7 percent on Monday after a marketing executive left the company, the second departure in four months and the latest news contributing to a halving in the company's market value this year.
IDC's Chau said Elop's presentation on Tuesday gave few clues on Nokia's future strategies to get back on track.
"From what they have announced today it is really hard to say because they left out so many details," she said.
"It will take a lot of cooperation between Microsoft and Nokia to do it and with this kind of business deal we only have a 50-50 percent (chance) to begin with."
Nokia also said it plans to launch up to 10 new smartphones using its own Symbian operating system. It introduced three affordable handsets which can use dual sim-cards, years after Asian rivals put such features into their phones.
"Any new products by Nokia will be a stop-gap ... until its first Microsoft phone is out in the market," said Seo Won-seok, an analyst at NH Investment & Securities in Seoul.
"It won't be easy for Nokia to aggressively market these products and even new product lineups will be limited given that it is spending heavy resources in developing Windows phones. Under such circumstances, I'm quite doubtful whether they'll get a strong response from customers."
In a research note this month, Nomura said Samsung Electronics would become the world's largest smartphone maker this quarter and Apple would take the number two spot next quarter, pushing Nokia to third place.
***
2011 NBA Mock Draft: With One Day Until Draft Night, The Crazy Is Setting In
This 2011 NBA Mock Draft comes with the big event just one day away, and things are beginning to get just a bit crazy.
In the penultimate 2011 NBA Mock Draft here on SBNation.com -- there will be one more on Thursday -- panic has been traded for the cracking of the fragile vessel holding it all together. People always say the NBA draft is crazy, and they are correct in that assessment. But I don't think you're hearing them. The draft is crazy. Like, it drives you absolutely crazy.
There is so much smoke and so many swerves and so much whiplash and your heart bobs up and down and up and down and your eyes dart back and forth and back and forth. It will literally drive you crazy if you try to keep it held together. The laws of nature do not apply to the NBA draft, and in fact the NBA draft will regularly violate the laws of nature. If you try to rationalize the draft, you will end up in a padded room drinking a chamomile cocktail. It's a terrifying annual rite that stretches the rope ever thinner; the breaking point is almost visible.
But we love it all the same. Let's mock.
1. Cleveland Cavaliers: Kyrie Irving, G, Duke
Surprise surprise! All that smoke about picking another dude at No. 1 was a ploy to boost the value of No. 4! I'm shocked!
2. Minnesota Timberwolves: Derrick Williams, F, Arizona
The range of trade offers for the No. 2 pick is amazing. I mean, Steve Nash! But also Roy Hibbert and No. 15, or JaVale McGee and No. 6, or -- this is the best -- Marcin Gortat and No. 13. Seriously. This is like going to the dealership with $30,000 cash and being shown a Benz with 150,000 miles on it, some serviceable trucks and then a beater Ford Aerostar with a sliding door that doesn't work. (The sad thing: Gortat would be a huge upgrade at center for the Wolves. Steve Nash would be a huge upgrade at center, actually.)
3. Utah Jazz: Brandon Knight, G, Kentucky
I've long thought the Jazz would go with Enes Kanter, but I may underestimate how much everyone (the Jazz front office included) dislikes Devin Harris right now. Don't worry: Knight is a future Devin Harris. It will all work out. Hate will be preserved.
4. Cleveland Cavaliers: Enes Kanter, C, Turkey
This is the one spot on the board where Jonas Valanciunas' NBA delay actually clarifies matters ... assuming that the Jazz don't take Kanter.
5. Toronto Raptors: Kemba Walker, G, UConn
There's talk the Raptors are now interested in Bismack Biyombo after his workout in T-Dot on Tuesday. The Raptors are also mentioned in that Tony Parker rumor. No one seems to have any clue what the Spurs might be after if they do move up to No. 5 or No. 7.
6. Washington Wizards: Jan Vesely, F, Czech Republic
It seems as if the Wizards have Kanter on top of their realistic wish list, with Vesely and Kawhi Leonard below him. If so, I think the longer Vesely is the choice. Leonard is more polished (especially on defense), but it's hard to pick a 6'7 small forward when you can take one who is 6'11.
7. Sacramento Kings: Kawhi Leonard, F, San Diego State
Pray God let the Parker trade happen, because if not, it does appear the Kings really like Jimmer Fredette, particularly the coaching staff. This isn't so much an owner-front office split, as has been reported. More a push to grab the guy who can provide as much as possible next season, not over the course of a rookie contract or career. This is a dumb way to make decisions. I am conscientiously objecting to the inevitable and putting Leonard here.
8. Detroit Pistons: Bismack Biyombo, F/C, Congo
It's good to know that Biyombo will be every bit the quote machine Dikembe Mutombo was.
9. Charlotte Bobcats: Chris Singleton, F, Florida State
Leonard shouldn't get past No. 9 if the Kings opt for Jimmer. Note that Chris Singleton -- a prospect similar but more polished than Leonard -- is working out again for the Bobcats on Wednesday. He could be the pick here whether Leonard is on the board or not.
10. Milwaukee Bucks: Jonas Valanciunas, C, Lithuania
Valanciunas' one-year delay doesn't work out better for any lottery team than it does for the Bucks, who need to assess whether Andrew Bogut's arm will ever get right, and what type of center Brandon Jennings needs. (Valanciunas actually isn't that different from Bogut, just far more raw.)
11. Golden State Warriors: Klay Thompson, G/F, Washington State
This pick looks to be between Thompson and Biyombo. Which is like saying your dinner choices are between a burger and fries and wallaby tongue.
12. Utah Jazz: Tristan Thompson, PF, Texas
They can't take Jimmer because they took Knight! I have sabotaged myself! Gah!
13. Phoenix Suns: Jimmer Fredette, G, BYU
Whew.
14. Houston Rockets: Marcus Morris, F, Kansas
Word is Houston could be trying to move up to No. 9 or No. 10 to grab Morris.
15. Indiana Pacers: Alec Burks, G, Colorado
A really good match; Burks deserves to go higher, but Jimmer, you know?
16. Philadelphia 76ers: Markieff Morris, F, Kansas
There's been a run on Morris brothers!
17. New York Knicks: Nikola Vucevic, C, USC
This is why prospects like Darko don't play for American colleges: you kill the mystery, you kill your stock. If Vucevic had played for Partizan Belgrade instead of Southern Cal, he'd be top-10 easy.
18. Washington Wizards: Donatas Motiejunas, C, Lithuania
All of the foreign players. If his shot doesn't translate, he could always skate for the Caps.
19. Charlotte Bobcats: Jordan Hamilton, F, Texas
I have the 'Cats picking a forward at No. 9, but offense is a need, and around this range, if Hamilton's available, he's a nice get.
20. Minnesota Timberwolves: Davis Bertans, F, Latvia
Oh no! I don't think Bertans and Lazar Hayward can play together!
21. Portland Trail Blazers: Kenneth Faried, F, Morehead State
If the Blazers can stomach playing Faried and Marcus Camby together for just one game, they could be the first team to ever get all of the rebounds in a game. Seems worth a shot at history, you know?
22. Denver Nuggets: Justin Harper, F, Richmond
Underrated storyline/fear heading into the offseason: the Nuggets might be forced to start Timofey Mozgov and Chris Andersen on opening night. Nene and Kenyon Martin are free agents, and Derrick Favors isn't walking through that door.
23. Houston Rockets: Marshon Brooks, G, Providence
I don't actually think Houston would take Brooks -- he's not a Moreyball player -- but this pick is in play, and Brooks shouldn't go lower than around here.
24. Oklahoma City Thunder: Nikola Mirotic, F, Montenegro
They say Mirotic'd be a lottery pick if not for a buy-out situation ...
25. Boston Celtics: Jeremy Tyler, C, Planet Earth
Boston needs size, and if there is one thing that Jeremy Tyler is, it's tall.
26. Dallas Mavericks: Tobias Harris, F, Tennessee
Harris is too good a prospect to be falling this far, but it doesn't seem as if a whole lot of teams believe that.
27. New Jersey Nets: Jimmy Butler, F, Marquette
Watch The Prokhorov make some extraordinary splash on draft day, just because.
28. Chicago Bulls: Kyle Singler, F, Duke
Duke!
29. San Antonio Spurs: Darius Morris, G, Michigan
The Spurs are makin' moves!
30. Chicago Bulls: Reggie Jackson, G, Boston College
Instant offense.
Next five, in some order:
Charles Jenkins, G, Hofstra
Iman Shumpert, G, Georgia Tech
Tyler Honeycutt, F, UCLA
Travis Leslie, F, Georgia
Isaiah Thomas, G, Washington
: With One Day Until Draft Night, The Crazy Is Setting InThis 2011 NBA Mock Draft comes with the big event just one day away, and things are beginning to get just a bit crazy.
In the penultimate 2011 NBA Mock Draft here on SBNation.com -- there will be one more on Thursday -- panic has been traded for the cracking of the fragile vessel holding it all together. People always say the NBA draft is crazy, and they are correct in that assessment. But I don't think you're hearing them. The draft is crazy. Like, it drives you absolutely crazy.
There is so much smoke and so many swerves and so much whiplash and your heart bobs up and down and up and down and your eyes dart back and forth and back and forth. It will literally drive you crazy if you try to keep it held together. The laws of nature do not apply to the NBA draft, and in fact the NBA draft will regularly violate the laws of nature. If you try to rationalize the draft, you will end up in a padded room drinking a chamomile cocktail. It's a terrifying annual rite that stretches the rope ever thinner; the breaking point is almost visible.
But we love it all the same. Let's mock.
1. Cleveland Cavaliers: Kyrie Irving, G, Duke
Surprise surprise! All that smoke about picking another dude at No. 1 was a ploy to boost the value of No. 4! I'm shocked!
2. Minnesota Timberwolves: Derrick Williams, F, Arizona
The range of trade offers for the No. 2 pick is amazing. I mean, Steve Nash! But also Roy Hibbert and No. 15, or JaVale McGee and No. 6, or -- this is the best -- Marcin Gortat and No. 13. Seriously. This is like going to the dealership with $30,000 cash and being shown a Benz with 150,000 miles on it, some serviceable trucks and then a beater Ford Aerostar with a sliding door that doesn't work. (The sad thing: Gortat would be a huge upgrade at center for the Wolves. Steve Nash would be a huge upgrade at center, actually.)
3. Utah Jazz: Brandon Knight, G, Kentucky
I've long thought the Jazz would go with Enes Kanter, but I may underestimate how much everyone (the Jazz front office included) dislikes Devin Harris right now. Don't worry: Knight is a future Devin Harris. It will all work out. Hate will be preserved.
4. Cleveland Cavaliers: Enes Kanter, C, Turkey
This is the one spot on the board where Jonas Valanciunas' NBA delay actually clarifies matters ... assuming that the Jazz don't take Kanter.
5. Toronto Raptors: Kemba Walker, G, UConn
There's talk the Raptors are now interested in Bismack Biyombo after his workout in T-Dot on Tuesday. The Raptors are also mentioned in that Tony Parker rumor. No one seems to have any clue what the Spurs might be after if they do move up to No. 5 or No. 7.
6. Washington Wizards: Jan Vesely, F, Czech Republic
It seems as if the Wizards have Kanter on top of their realistic wish list, with Vesely and Kawhi Leonard below him. If so, I think the longer Vesely is the choice. Leonard is more polished (especially on defense), but it's hard to pick a 6'7 small forward when you can take one who is 6'11.
7. Sacramento Kings: Kawhi Leonard, F, San Diego State
Pray God let the Parker trade happen, because if not, it does appear the Kings really like Jimmer Fredette, particularly the coaching staff. This isn't so much an owner-front office split, as has been reported. More a push to grab the guy who can provide as much as possible next season, not over the course of a rookie contract or career. This is a dumb way to make decisions. I am conscientiously objecting to the inevitable and putting Leonard here.
8. Detroit Pistons: Bismack Biyombo, F/C, Congo
It's good to know that Biyombo will be every bit the quote machine Dikembe Mutombo was.
9. Charlotte Bobcats: Chris Singleton, F, Florida State
Leonard shouldn't get past No. 9 if the Kings opt for Jimmer. Note that Chris Singleton -- a prospect similar but more polished than Leonard -- is working out again for the Bobcats on Wednesday. He could be the pick here whether Leonard is on the board or not.
10. Milwaukee Bucks: Jonas Valanciunas, C, Lithuania
Valanciunas' one-year delay doesn't work out better for any lottery team than it does for the Bucks, who need to assess whether Andrew Bogut's arm will ever get right, and what type of center Brandon Jennings needs. (Valanciunas actually isn't that different from Bogut, just far more raw.)
11. Golden State Warriors: Klay Thompson, G/F, Washington State
This pick looks to be between Thompson and Biyombo. Which is like saying your dinner choices are between a burger and fries and wallaby tongue.
12. Utah Jazz: Tristan Thompson, PF, Texas
They can't take Jimmer because they took Knight! I have sabotaged myself! Gah!
13. Phoenix Suns: Jimmer Fredette, G, BYU
Whew.
14. Houston Rockets: Marcus Morris, F, Kansas
Word is Houston could be trying to move up to No. 9 or No. 10 to grab Morris.
15. Indiana Pacers: Alec Burks, G, Colorado
A really good match; Burks deserves to go higher, but Jimmer, you know?
16. Philadelphia 76ers: Markieff Morris, F, Kansas
There's been a run on Morris brothers!
17. New York Knicks: Nikola Vucevic, C, USC
This is why prospects like Darko don't play for American colleges: you kill the mystery, you kill your stock. If Vucevic had played for Partizan Belgrade instead of Southern Cal, he'd be top-10 easy.
18. Washington Wizards: Donatas Motiejunas, C, Lithuania
All of the foreign players. If his shot doesn't translate, he could always skate for the Caps.
19. Charlotte Bobcats: Jordan Hamilton, F, Texas
I have the 'Cats picking a forward at No. 9, but offense is a need, and around this range, if Hamilton's available, he's a nice get.
20. Minnesota Timberwolves: Davis Bertans, F, Latvia
Oh no! I don't think Bertans and Lazar Hayward can play together!
21. Portland Trail Blazers: Kenneth Faried, F, Morehead State
If the Blazers can stomach playing Faried and Marcus Camby together for just one game, they could be the first team to ever get all of the rebounds in a game. Seems worth a shot at history, you know?
22. Denver Nuggets: Justin Harper, F, Richmond
Underrated storyline/fear heading into the offseason: the Nuggets might be forced to start Timofey Mozgov and Chris Andersen on opening night. Nene and Kenyon Martin are free agents, and Derrick Favors isn't walking through that door.
23. Houston Rockets: Marshon Brooks, G, Providence
I don't actually think Houston would take Brooks -- he's not a Moreyball player -- but this pick is in play, and Brooks shouldn't go lower than around here.
24. Oklahoma City Thunder: Nikola Mirotic, F, Montenegro
They say Mirotic'd be a lottery pick if not for a buy-out situation ...
25. Boston Celtics: Jeremy Tyler, C, Planet Earth
Boston needs size, and if there is one thing that Jeremy Tyler is, it's tall.
26. Dallas Mavericks: Tobias Harris, F, Tennessee
Harris is too good a prospect to be falling this far, but it doesn't seem as if a whole lot of teams believe that.
27. New Jersey Nets: Jimmy Butler, F, Marquette
Watch The Prokhorov make some extraordinary splash on draft day, just because.
28. Chicago Bulls: Kyle Singler, F, Duke
Duke!
29. San Antonio Spurs: Darius Morris, G, Michigan
The Spurs are makin' moves!
30. Chicago Bulls: Reggie Jackson, G, Boston College
Instant offense.
Next five, in some order:
Charles Jenkins, G, Hofstra
Iman Shumpert, G, Georgia Tech
Tyler Honeycutt, F, UCLA
Travis Leslie, F, Georgia
Isaiah Thomas, G, Washington
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