----Remember when Adam Morrison competed with J.J. Redick for the NCAA scoring title? Of course you do, but you probably don’t remember that they played against each other in the NBA Finals just a couple weeks ago. So what happened?

In their final collegiate seasons, Morrison averaged 28 points a game and J.J. averaged 27 points a game, respectively. 

In the 2006 NBA draft, Morrison went 3^rd overall and Redick went 11^th overall, both lottery picks.  Both overhyped by analysts.  

These analysts perpetually pray for new protégées to make up for their previous analytical failures.  Year after year, analysts predict and then convince the viewer that Michael Jordan Jr. will come along, but most of the time these projected prospects are major busts.  Does the NBA and their analysts really believe so many players have pro potential or is just for the revenue?

They basically read us a fairy tale.  Analysts are so sure of themselves, that even I am almost  convinced that four rookie superstars will actually emerge from this weak draft class.  Everyone has their own opinion and not all analysts agree in each case, but all of their opinions are brought to you by the same industry.  When meshed together it creates the illusion that each draft class is full of blossoming stars.  Felicitations NBA, you have managed to hypnotize the basketball world once again.

This year, everyone continuously hypes up a particular athlete in the draft. The only problem is that he is not an athlete or a basketball player; he’s a competitor, a great shooter and a very humble guy.  But he couldn’t back peddle and stick his hands in the air if his whole career depended on it.

NBA enthusiasts adore scorers.  6-foot-nothing Stephen Curry can’t do anything but shoot, yet analysts love making him the center of attention.  Face it, we have all seen him on ESPN one-too-many times. 

NBA TV correspondent Rick Kamla said, “This kid is going to be real good.”  Rick, I must disagree.

All basketball experts should agree that the league consists of much more than just putting the ball in the hoop; but if that’s so, how can one, especially a professional analyst, predict that someone like Stephen Curry can actually succeed in the NBA? 

Now Blake Griffin is going to be a real superstar, or so I’ve heard.  Chad Ford, of ESPN states, “Griffin looks like the closest thing to Superman the NBA has seen since Dwight Howard.”  Is he serious?  Or maybe the need for some hype is forcing him to say that.