NBA draft: Canton native, OSU star gets intro to Utah
NBA draft: Canton native, OSU star gets intro to Utah
It’s hard to believe Kosta Koufos was once a point guard. Somewhere around his early teens, Koufos outgrew the position and kept going from there.
Jazz Team Report (Yahoo! Sports)
Draft week was busy for the Jazz, who celebrated the official announcement of Carlos Boozer and Deron Williams as members of the U.S. Olympic basketball team, selected Ohio State center Kosta Koufos in the first round of the NBA Draft and were preparing to start contract extension talks with Williams.
The Jazz were the only NBA team to have two players selected to the 12-man Olympic team. They didn’t resist linking their past or present, either, arranging side-by-side pictures of Williams and John Stockton and Boozer and Karl Malone in USA Basketball jerseys for a news conference.
On draft night, the Jazz watched as nearly every big man they brought to Utah for a workout went to a team picking ahead of them.
From A to F, a 2008 NBA draft report card
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