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With an uncertain off-season looming, NBA teams may be more focused on making the most of Thursday nights Entry Draft. Kawann Short Womens Jersey . You can watch the action live on TSN2 at 6pm et/3pm pt and join our Draft Chat on TSN.ca starting at 6:30pm et/3:30pm pt. The Draft offers a rare opportunity for some of the leagues struggling teams to immediately add impact players to their line-ups. The Toronto Raptors will be able to kick-start the Dwane Casey era with the fifth overall choice. Players potentially available to the Raptors may include highly-touted Europeans Enes Kanter, Jonas Valanciunas, and Jan Veseley, as well as a pair of top-end point guards in Kentuckys Brandon Knight and Final Four Most Outstanding Player Kemba Walker of Connecticut. Regardless of who they end up selecting, the team has a chance to build on its existing young core of players, anchored by recent first-rounders DeMar DeRozan and Ed Davis. The Raptors will have to wait and see which players are still available after both Cavaliers selections as well as the Minnesota Timberwolves who hold the number two pick and the Utah Jazz, who have the third pick, thanks to the Deron Williams trade with the Nets. Of course, the team that will hold the focus of the basketball universe on the draft floor is the Cleveland Cavaliers. Mired in the aftermath of the LeBron James era, the team finished with the leagues second-worst record at 19-63. That gave the team the second-best chance of nabbing the first overall selection in the draft behind the 17-65 Minnesota Timberwolves. But the Cavs would benefit from a draft lottery miracle. Represented by owner Dan Gilberts 14-year-old son Nick at the lottery, the Cavs would wind up winning the first overall selection not due to their own poor finish, but as a result of acquiring the Los Angeles Clippers first-rounder in exchange for taking on Baron Davis contract via trade. The Clippers pick won the Cavs the lottery, despite less than a three percent chance of that number coming up. The result gave the Cavs two picks in the first four selections. Kyrie Irving is the consensus number-one pick, but the Cavs have kept silent thus far as to who theyll chose first. Regardless of who that selection ends up being, the Cavs stand to land not one but two impact players on Thursday night. Other big names to watch on Draft night include Canadian power forward Tristan Thompson out of Texas, Brigham Young guard Jimmer Fredette, twin brothers Marcus and Markieff Morris out of Kansas and Czech forward Jan Vesely. Sam Mills Panthers Jersey . During the morning loop on TSN, SportsCentre presents Purple Hearts, a TSN Original feature on Daron Richardson, daughter of former NHL defenceman Luke Richardson, who took her own life at the age of 14. Bene Benwikere Jersey . Maxime Presseaults goal at 13:59 of the second period broke a 2-2 deadlock for the Foreurs, who trailed the series 3-2 before winning back-to-back games, and Guillaume Gelinas and Pierre-Maxime Poudrier also scored.MONTREAL -- Montreal Canadiens defenceman Josh Gorges was sent home from Phoenix on Thursday to have a hand injury re-examined by team doctors. Gorges is believed to have suffered the injury while blocking a shot with a hand during Montreals win overr the Toronto Maple Leafs on Saturday. J.J. Jansen Jersey. The Canadiens added to their defensive depth this week by acquiring veteran Mike Weaver from the Florida Panthers. The Canadiens are to face the Coyotes in Phoenix on Thursday night. cheap jerseys cheap jerseys from china ' ' ' |
