The ethics of journalism require that you not guess, even on the surest of things, before you put something in the newspaper as a fact. So, pushing deadline, I waited on the first round of the NBA Draft to conclude before writing what everyone knew was inevitably going to happen: no player from the University of Alabama was selected in the first round.
The Crimson Tide’s drought has reached Mojave Desert-proportions, with no first-rounder since Gerald Wallace went one-and-done into Round 1 in 2001. There have been players drafted since — Mo Williams and Richard Hendrix, both second-rounders.