Korean Basketball League Draft Results!

Rod Benson will be taking his talents to South... Korea along with 19 other players that were selected in the 2010 Korean Basketball League's Draft.

Obviously, I know why you come to Ridiculous Upside: it's because you want the goods.

Well, kids, I've got the goods.

The Korean Basketball League's import player draft took place Thursday night in the Monte Carlo Hotel's ballroom down in beautiful Las Vegas, Nevada following two and a half days of tryouts - and I have the results.

Typically this sort of thing wouldn't be news around these parts, but because there was a rather large amount of big men that either played in the NBA Development League or in the recent NBA Summer League I decided to follow it as closely as I could (which meant via texts from a coach that happened to be down in Vegas since ESPN apparently didn't deem it appropriate for Thursday afternoon television).

The KBL has a few peculiar rules (players have to be three years removed from any NBA experience and at least two years removed from European experience unless that experience came in Spain, Turkey, Italy, Israel, Russia, Greece or China) and, beginning this year, teams are only allowed one import for the entire game - a change from last season when teams could play both of their imports during the first and fourth quarter of each game.

All that aside, they make up for it by signing imports to $400,000 contracts - $73,604 less than the NBA minimum contract that the majority of these players would have to fight through an NBA training camp to earn.

Notable players that weren't selected include Memphis Grizzlies Summer Leaguer Jeff Adrien, Nuggets Summer Leaguer (and former Dakota Wizard) Romel Beck, Ruben Boumtje-Boumtje, Utah Flash big man Bennet Davis, Spurs Summer Leaguer Bryan Davis, Hornets Summer Leaguer Kyle Hines, former Phoenix Sun Dan Langhi, former perennial Jazz Summer Leaguer Kevin Lyde, 37-year-old NBA journeyman Amal McCaskill, Michigan State alums Drew Naymick and Raymar Morgan, Bulls Summer Leaguer A.J. Ogilvy, Tulsa 66ers stud Larry Owens, Fort Wayne big men Jared Reiner and Sean Sonderleiter, former Golden State Warrior draft pick Chris Taft, and last, but not least, motherfrickin' Samaki Walker.

Okay, so that's who wasn't drafted. Who was drafted? Find out after the jump!

Pick Name College
1 Jasper Johnson Delta State
2 Chris Alexander Iowa State
3 Glen McGowan Pepperdine
4 David Simon IPFW
5 Herbert Hill Providence
6 Terrence Leather South Florida
7 Chris Daniels Texas A&M - Corpus Christi
8 Rod Benson Cal
9 Noel Felix Fresno State
10 Micah Brand Massachusetts
Second Round Name College
11 Laurence Ekperegin LeMoyne
12 Aaron Haynes Boise State
13 Victor Thomas LaSalle
14 Eric Dawson Midwestern
15 Michael Haynes Fordham
16 Ousmane Barro Marquette
17 Gavin Edwards Connecticut
18 Otis George Louisville
19 Marcus Hubbard Angelo State
20 Charles Rhodes Mississippi State

The majority of these players had previous KBL experience as Johnson, Alexander, Hill, Leather, Daniels, Brand, Haynes and Thomas all played in Korea last season - most of which were in the top 10 in scoring.

The rest, well, it's a rather eclectic bunch, though Ekperegin will be the only rookie import - something that could be challenging for the small school player who looked decent with the Denver Nuggets in Vegas. Johnson, Alexander, McGowan, Hill, Benson, Felix, Dawson and Hubbard all have D-League experience.

Comments

/Jeremy LIn joke

on a serious note, are all these guys locks to go over there?

Last year

Greg Stiemsma didn’t report, but I’m fairly certain everyone else did.
It doesn’t make sense not to go unless you think you’re going to make the NBA (which Stiemsma just barely did).

Rhodes

Charles Rhodes is a beast. We drafted him in Eastern Kentucky in 2008 and almost got him to come before an overseas offer came in. Hope he decides to stay in the states and play one year but can’t turn down that money.

Jeff Adrien/Kyle Hines

I liked them in Las Vegas. Would like to see them try the D-League this season.

Hmmm

I’d like all of the undrafted players to try the D-League this season. Can you imagine Samaki Walker versus Kevin Lyde? Ticket sales would be through the roof.

Whose roof?

It’s a metaphor.

Whose metaphor?

According to my research, Rock Master Scott’s. Please refer to me as that from now on.

Ah RMS: PMS’s Raging Cousin.

More like Ragin' Cajun.

a whataphor? Okafor?

players have to be three years removed from any NBA experience and at least two years removed from European experience unless that experience came in Spain, Turkey, Italy, Israel, Russia, Greece or China

When did Israel and China start counting as “European experience?”

You're not my friend

But that’s how the Korean Times intern put it here.

I do my best!

Korean Times...

is a rag, just to let you know.

Lame

It sounds legit!

haha, ok...

so, what are the chances he comes here?

100%.

Nice! (for me)

As a...

person residing in Korea I really hope Boom-Tho makes it over here! (if he doesn’t make the NBA) Go Incheon Elephants!

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