Sentences with phrase «second draft choice»

Chicago native with blue - collar roots, Joe Niego was a star college basketball player and second draft choice of the NBA's Houston Rockets.

A Chicago native, Joe Niego was a star college basketball player and the second draft choice of the NBA's Houston Rockets.

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Last year in the college draft he selected Center Bob Johnson and Defensive Tackle Bill Staley as his first and second picks and Running Back Paul Robinson as one of three No. 3 choices.

* All first - and second - year professionals, as well as all unsigned draft choices, will be exempt from selection (and will not be counted toward their club's applicable protection limits).

This was a morning to strategize about the 34th pick in the draft — San Francisco's second - round choice.

Tennessee, his second - choice last year, may well be looking for a replacement for Peyton Manning, the predicted No. 1 pick in the 1997 NFL draft.

He was the second choice in the 1969 NBA draft — a very distant second choice, behind Lew Alcindor.

The rest were draft choices ranging from the second to the seventh rounds — not exactly bonus babies.

When the Redskins made a trade with the San Francisco 49ers last Feb. 25 that left them with the second and third choices in the first round of the 2000 draft, coach Norv Turner knew before his head hit the pillow that night that he'd be using one of those picks on another tackle.

Each could be fined $ 250,000 by NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue, who is likely to hand the Niners a stiff penalty as well, perhaps docking them a second - round draft choice and a lower pick.

Bradley was a second - round draft choice of the Expos in» 96, but he quickly found trouble.

article: «Another team could have signed him to an offer sheet with the Vikings getting a second - round draft choice if they didn't match, but Easton instead decided to sign with the Vikings.»

The 36 - year - old Strahan, a second - round draft choice in 1993 and a seven - time Pro Bowler, considered retiring last summer and sat out all of training camp while deciding if he still wanted to play.

SIGNED: By the Indiana Pacers, former Oklahoma forward WAYMAN TISDALE, 21, the second choice overall in the NBA draft, to a reported four - year, $ 4 million contract.

Promising a second referendum to stay or go when the Brexit draft deal sets out the genuine choice isn't electrifying an electorate thinking about the NHS and living standards, Corbyn's credibility and Mayhem.

It went something like this: hotel check - in, locate room, locate wifi service, attempt connection to wifi, wonder why the connection is taking so long, try again, locate phone, call front desk, get told «the internet is broken for a while», decide to hot - spot the mobile phone because some emails really needed to be sent, go «la la la» about the roaming costs, locate iron, wonder why iron temperature dial just spins around and around, swear as iron spews water instead of steam, find reading glasses, curse middle - aged need for reading glasses, realise iron temperature dial is indecipherably in Chinese, decide ironing front of shirt is good enough when wearing jacket, order room service lunch, start shower, realise can't read impossible small toiletry bottle labels, damply retrieve glasses from near iron and successfully avoid shampooing hair with body lotion, change (into slightly damp shirt), retrieve glasses from shower, start teleconference, eat lunch, remember to mute phone, meet colleague in lobby at 1 pm, continue teleconference, get in taxi, endure 75 stop - start minutes to a inconveniently located client, watch unread emails climb over 150, continue to ignore roaming costs, regret tuna panini lunch choice as taxi warmth, stop - start juddering, jet - lag, guilt about unread emails and traffic fumes combine in a very unpleasant way, stumble out of over-warm taxi and almost catch hypothermia while trying to locate a very small client office in a very large anonymous business park, almost hug client with relief when they appear to escort us the last 50 metres, surprisingly have very positive client meeting (i.e. didn't throw up in the meeting), almost catch hypothermia again waiting for taxi which despite having two functioning GPS devices can't locate us on a main road, understand why as within 30 seconds we are almost rendered unconscious by the in - car exhaust fumes, discover that the taxi ride back to the CBD is even slower and more juddering at peak hour (and no, that was not a carbon monoxide induced hallucination), rescheduled the second client from 5 pm to 5.30, to 6 pm and finally 6.30 pm, killed time by drafting this guest blog (possibly carbon monoxide induced), watch unread emails climb higher, exit taxi and inhale relatively fresher air from kamikaze motor scooters, enter office and grumpily work with client until 9 pm, decline client's gracious offer of expensive dinner, noting it is already midnight my time, observe client fail to correctly set office alarm and endure high decibel «warning, warning» sounds that are clearly designed to send security rushing... soon... any second now... develop new form of nausea and headache from piercing, screeching, sounds - like - a-wailing-baby-please-please-make-it-stop-alarm, note the client is relishing the extra (free) time with us and is still talking about work, admire the client's ability to focus under extreme aural pressure, decide the client may be a little too work focussed, realise that I probably am too given I have just finished work at 9 pm... but then remember the 200 unread emails in my inbox and decide I can resolve that incongruency later (in a quieter space), become sure that there are only two possibilities — there are no security staff or they are deaf — while my colleague frantically tries to call someone who knows what to do, conclude after three calls that no - one does, and then finally someone finally does and... it stops.