First off, the obvious: Jan Vesely’s girlfriend or whatever she was. I’ll be a man and admit it, yeah she was really hot upon first seeing her, but after further review I’m going to have to go with giving her a 7. I think a lot of the hub-bub about her was centralized around the fact Jan looked about three seconds away from pulling the classic swipe everything off the table and make sweet, sweet love move. How much of a motivating factor the fact he was the 6th overall selection in the draft was, I’m not sure. But a lot more interesting things happened Thursday, like the Bulls making two moves I really like and you should too.

First off, Chicago drafted Real Madrid’s Nikola Mirotic — well, they technically did anyway. Chicago actually drafted Norris Cole at the 28th position, but traded him to Minnesota for the rights to Mirotic. It was just one of the billion trades David Kahn and the Timberwolves made because the Wolves didn’t even draft Mirotic themselves, the Rockets did. Mirotic was getting passed around the draft like he was what the kids in That ’70s Show got in “The Circle” for. But Chicago ended up with him and gave up the 28th pick (Cole) and the 43rd pick to get him. Trading for Mirotic has it’s pluses and minuses and they all make sense.

For starters, Mirotic is 6’10″ depending on who you ask, and will possibly serve as a replacement plan for Carlos Boozer should he disappoint again in next season’s playoffs. The catch is Mirotic isn’t going to play in the NBA (more…)