Sorry folks.  I know this is a baseball forum, but there are many on here that care about the NBA and enjoy opining about the (sad) state of the Mavs, and I found this tidbit to be interesting.

In 2005, the Mavericks did not make a single pick in the June draft, having traded both their first and second round picks.  But before last season, the Mavericks took a flier on Brandon Bass, an early second round pick who failed to impress in his first two seasons with the New Orleans Hornets.  It appears to Mavericks have taken a shining to that formula, because they now have three more players who failed to live up to expectations from that draft.  After trading for (and hopefully resigning) former Texas A&M great Antoine Wright, they have now brought in former 12th overall pick Yaroslav Korolev, an athletic small forward from Russia, to play on their summer league team, and have signed to a one year deal uber-athletic shooting guard Gerald Green, one of the last high school draft entrants, who was originally thought to be a top five pick before falling to the Celtics at 18.

The Mavericks now employ (to various degrees) four of the top 33 picks in that draft.  Here’s hoping one of Green, Wright, and Korolev can come in a make a similar impact this year to the one that Bass made last year, because this team will surely need it.