Suggestion for Seattle
It is a little too early for me to do a mock draft. I’ll leave that to Chad Ford, it is his job after all.
However, I will go on record right now with a way to keep the Sonics in Seattle. It goes a little something like this:
1. Land the Number 2 pick in this year’s Draft. Check.
2. Draft Kevin Durant. Inevitable Check.
2a. Start Durant at small forward
3. Re-sign Rashard Lewis.
4. Move Rashard Lewis to the four.
5. Move Chris Wilcox to the center position.
6. Hire Iavoroni from Phoenix to be the head coach.
7. Put Nick Collison on the trade block to see what type of swing man you can bring in to the mix. (Perhaps a swap for the versatile Gerald Wallace, Andres Nocioni or Adam Hermann.)
8. Bring Robert Swift and Johan Petro off the bench for some size.
9. Run and gun like the Phoenix Suns.
If they do all of that, the Sonics will sell their arena out every night, and would be a matchup nightmare for nearly ever team in the league. Remember how well they did when they were running lineups of Ridnour, Allen, Lewis, and Radmanovic? It will be like that except much, much better.
