Sentence examples for draft a point from inspiring English sources

Get the best player available -- don't draft by position, don't draft a point guard because we need one.

The Nets drafted a point guard, Zoran Planinic, but he is 20 years old.

Dallas's trade with Washington on Wednesday was made official last night, and though the Mavericks were expected to use the fifth pick they acquired in the deal to sweeten their offer to the Los Angeles Lakers for Shaquille O'Neal, they instead used it to draft Devin Harris, a point guard from the University of Wisconsin.

• Brown was one of seven players the Athletics picked among the first 39 players taken in the 2002 draft, a focal point of the book.

Back in 1979 I was curious and disappointed that the Lakers would draft a 6-9 point guard when they already had Norm Nixon and that drafting Sidney Moncrief appeared to be the better fit.

It is a departure for Shumpert, who was drafted as a point guard but now must contribute off the ball to fit the Knicks' current roster.

Mr. Goldstein also helped draft a 20-point position paper on gay and lesbian rights in which Mr. Corzine expressed support for the right of gays and lesbians to serve openly in the military, and for the New Jersey court ruling barring the Boy Scouts from excluding gay members, among other issues.

Macdonald helped draft a 15-point party platform for approval at a Liberal convention in the fall of 1930.

Vancouver thought Maryland's Steve Francis was a good backcourt fit with point guard Mike Bibby and took him at No. 2. Charlotte, drafting third, wanted a point guard and took UCLA's Baron Davis.

Our manuscript was drafted in late 2013, a point in time when we were confident that all deaths certificates from the CSO were matched to the cancer registry database.

The eventual No. 1 draft pick, Rose, was a point guard who led Memphis to the cusp of the championship.