(From The USA Today -- By Michael Hiestand)
Tuesday's NBA DRAFT on ESPN will be headlined by a question that doesn't exactly evoke glamour -- Will the top pick be a native AUSTRALIAN or a player that last year didn't start for his college team?
It's projected that the MILWAUKEE BUCKS, with the No. 1 pick, will take either AUSTRALIAN ANDREW BOGUT, who starred for UTAH, or MARVIN WILLIAMS, a NORTH CAROLINA RESERVE.
But THE DRAFT is a pretty good TV show because it moves along with five minutes between first-round picks, compared with 15 between first-round picks in THE NFL DRAFT.
THE NFL DRAFT, with its parade of ALL-AMERICANS, draws ratings about twice as high as THE NBA DRAFT's rating. But THE NBA DRAFT's quicker pace, ESPN NBA draft host MIKE TIRICO says, makes it "watchable" while THE NFL DRAFT can get "pretty tedious." The downside, he says, is that rapid-fire TV coverage of THE NBA DRAFT "can shortchange these (players) who've achieved their dream."
ESPN will have a camera inside MILWAUKEE's DRAFT ROOM and VIDEO CONFERENCE CAMERAS at 16 other team headquarters. ESPN could put cameras at all team offices, ESPN producer DAN STEIR says, "but it wouldn't be fair to the teams. With the show's pacing, we couldn't get them all in."
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