If you’re a sports nut like me, you probably tuned in to one of the sports drafts for hockey or basketball recently, if not both of them. I love the NBA and basketball is probably my favorite sport. I love football too, but the season is so short in football, so we crave football more and get to actually watch the other sport teams a lot more. I was happy with my favorite NBA team on draft day in the National Basketball Association. I know my hockey team made a big trade right before the draft and I saw they gave up their number 1 draft pick. So I wasn’t too excited about the NHL draft, but after reading my email today, I saw my team did draft the 8th overall player in the National Hockey League draft. I’m a little confused on how they got that pick and my favorite hockey team, must of had 2 first round draft picks and they traded away the worse of the two. Unless they made a draft day trade for a first round pick, but surely my email would have said something about that.
The hockey draft has more rounds and most of these guys I don’t even know. So it’s very hard to root for hockey players, because someone living in the Southern United States, doesn’t get a chance to see much hockey, unless it is our pro team here from the NHL. While the NBA is much different and we have a lot of college basketball we can watch in the States and most of the future NBA stars of tomorrow, do play for a college team that gets a lot of TV time. You can actually be a scout for the NBA, with the amount of college basketball we get to see in America. I have seen most of the first round guys from the NBA draft on Thursday play. I have a good idea on which teams in basketball made good draft picks and which ones did not. I just have to hope my NHL team knows their stuff and trust in the scouting they did before the draft took place in hockey.
I really like the player my NBA team received in the 2010 NBA draft. I didn’t even know my NHL team had a first round pick, so to learn we got the 8th guy in the NHL draft, that gets me a little excited to see him play next year. The NHL season does begin before the NBA season, so I will get a chance to see my hockey draft pick play (if he makes the big club) first. It will be early November, before I get to see the college basketball star my team took in the NBA draft. I have a lot to look forward to this fall and will have my baseball team and football to keep me company; while I wait for the NHL and NBA seasons to start up.