News from June 24. NBA ref Joe Crawford resigned. Crawford has been charged with tax evasion that stemmed from not reporting the money saved by downgrading first class airline tickets as income and is expect to plead guilty. The 1998 NBA draft took place last night and it was a busy night of surprise picks and trades - I didn't even know about 2 of the trades until reading through a lot of different articles. Here's what happened. 1998 NBA draft results a) TRADE: Toronto traded the rights to #4 pick Antawn Jamison to Golden State for the rights to #5 pick Vince Carter and cash. b) TRADE: Dallas traded the rights to #6 Robert Traylor to Milwaukee for the rights to #9 pick Dirk Nowitzki and #19 pick Pat Garrity. c) TRADE: Dallas traded the rights to #19 pick Pat Garrity, Bubba Wells, Martin Muursepp, and an unprotected 1st round draft pick in 1999 to Phoenix for Steve Nash. d) TRADE: Utah traded the rights to #29 pick Nazr Mohammed to Philadelphia for a future 1st round draft pick. The draft pick is top 15 protected for 1999, top 14 protected for 2000, top 13 protected for 2001, and top #1 and #2 protected for 2002 and beyond. e) TRADE: San Antonio traded the rights to #24 pick Felipe Lopez and Carl Herrera to Vancouver for Antonio Daniels. f) TRADE: Denver traded the draft rights to #23 pick Tyronn Lue and Tony Battie to the LA Lakers for Nick Van Exel. g) TRADE: The LA Lakers traded the rights to #45 Toby Bailey to Phoenix for future considerations. First Round # Team Player Pos Hgt Wgt B-day College 1 LAC Michael Olowokandi . C 7-1 265 3/3/75 Pacific'98 2 Van Mike Bibby ......... G 6-2 190 5/13/78 Arizona'00 3 Den Raef LaFrentz ...... F 6-11 235 5/29/76 Kansas'98 4 a GS Antawn Jamison ..... F 6-9 223 6/12/76 UNC'99 5 a Tor Vince Carter ....... G-F 6-7 215 1/26/77 UNC'99 6 b Mil Robert Traylor ..... F-C 6-8 300 2/1/77 Michigan'99 7 Sac Jason Williams ..... G 6-1 190 11/18/75 Florida'99 8 Phi Larry Hughes ....... G 6-5 185 1/23/79 Saint Louis'01 9 b Dal Dirk Nowitzki ...... F 6-11 237 6/19/78 Germany 10 Bos Paul Pierce ........ F 6-7 220 10/13/77 Kansas'99 11 Det Bonzi Wells ........ G-F 6-5 210 9/20/76 Ball State'98 12 Orl Michael Doleac ..... C 6-11 265 6/15/77 Utah'98 13 Orl Keon Clark ......... C-F 6-11 220 3/16/75 UNLV'98 14 Hou Michael Dickerson .. F 6-5 190 6/25/75 Arizona'98 15 Orl Matt Harpring ...... F 6-8 225 5/31/76 Georgia Tech'98 16 Hou Bryce Drew ......... G 6-3 185 9/21/74 Valparaiso'98 17 Min Radoslav Nesterovic C 7-0 248 5/30/76 Slovenia 18 Hou Mirsad Turkcan ..... F 6-9 216 6/7/76 Turkey 19bcPho Pat Garrity ........ F 6-9 231 8/23/76 Notre Dame'98 20 Atl Roshown McLeod ..... F 6-8 220 11/17/75 Duke'98 21 Cha Ricky Davis ........ F 6-5 195 9/23/79 Iowa'01 22 LAC Brian Skinner ...... C-F 6-10 255 5/19/76 Baylor'98 23f LAL Tyronn Lue ......... G 6-0 175 5/3/77 Nebraska'99 24e Van Felipe Lopez ....... G 6-6 195 12/19/74 St John's'98 25 Ind Al Harrington ...... F 6-9 230 2/17/80 St Patrick's HS 26 LAL Sam Jacobson ....... G-F 6-6 215 7/22/75 Minnesota'98 27 Sea Vladimir Stepania .. C 6-11 236 8/5/76 Slovenia 28 Chi Corey Benjamin ..... G 6-6 200 2/24/78 Oregon State'00 29d Phi Nazr Mohammed ...... C 6-10 240 9/5/77 Kentucky'99 Second Round # Team Player Pos Hgt Wgt B-day College 30 Dal Ansu Sesay ......... F 6-9 225 7/29/76 Mississippi'98 31 LAL Ruben Patterson .... F 6-6 227 7/31/75 Cincinnati'98 32 Sea Rashard Lewis ...... F 6-10 215 8/8/79 Alief Elsik HS 33 Sea Jelani McCoy ....... C 6-10 237 12/6/77 UCLA'99 34 Chi Shammond Williams .. G 6-2 189 3/5/75 UNC'98 35 Dal Bruno Sundov ....... C 7-2 220 2/10/80 Croatia 36 Sac Jerome James ....... C 7-1 285 11/17/75 Florida A&M'98 37 Phi Casey Shaw ......... C 6-11 260 7/20/75 Toledo'98 38 NY DeMarco Johnson .... F 6-8 245 10/6/75 NC-Charlotte'98 39 Mil Rafer Alston ....... G 6-2 173 7/24/76 Fresno State'99 40 Det Korleone Young ..... F 6-7 220 12/31/78 Hargrave Military Aca. 41 Hou Cuttino Mobley ..... G 6-4 190 9/1/74 Rhode Island'98 42 Orl Miles Simon ........ G 6-5 202 11/21/75 Arizona'98 43 Was Jahidi White ....... F-C 6-9 290 2/19/76 Georgetown'98 44 NY Sean Marks ......... F-C 6-10 250 8/23/75 California'98 45g Pho Toby Bailey ........ G 6-5 208 11/19/75 UCLA'98 46 Min Andrae Patterson ... F 6-9 238 11/12/75 Indiana'98 47 Tor Tyson Wheeler ...... G 5-10 165 10/8/75 Rhode Island'98 48 Cle Ryan Stack ......... F 6-11 215 7/24/75 South Carolina'98 49 Atl Cory Carr .......... G 6-4 200 12/5/75 Texas Tech'98 50 Cha Andrew Betts ....... C 7-1 250 5/11/77 Long Beach State'98 51 Mia Corey Brewer ....... G 6-2 190 1/2/75 Oklahoma'98 52 SA Derrick Dial ....... G 6-5 185 12/20/75 Michigan'98 53 Dal Greg Buckner ....... G 6-4 210 9/16/76 Clemson'98 54 Den Tremaine Fowlkes ... F 6-8 220 3/11/76 Fresno State'99 55 Den Ryan Bowen ......... F 6-7 215 11/20/75 Iowa'98 56 Van J.R. Henderson ..... F 6-8 233 10/30/76 UCLA'98 57 Uta Torraye Braggs ..... F 6-8 236 5/15/76 Xavier'98 58 Chi Maceo Baston ....... F 6-9 215 5/29/75 Michigan'98