Found July 16, 2009 on Bleacher Report:
For the Cleveland Cavaliers, draft day 2009 started out with a bang. Minutes after midnight on Wednesday, the team officially brought Shaquille O'Neal to the Q by trading Ben Wallace and Sasha Pavlovic to the Phoenix Suns (essentially getting a finely-aged bottle of wine for two half-empty cans of Natural Light). Yes, by bringing in The Big Cuyahoga, it looked like the Cavs were beginning a strong offseason. Then came the draft. Rumors were swirling about how Cleveland intended to trade up in the draft, or maybe even buy a pick from a team in financial troubles. However, the Cavs kept their 30th overall pick, and then made one of the most underwhelming choices of the entire night. They drafted Christian Eyenga. Seriously, did anyone outside of Eyenga's family and friends even know who this guy was? ESPN correspondents immediately made the pick sound worse by saying Eyenga would most likely spend the next couple years playing in Europe, as he wasn't even close t...
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