Ducks now among elite

0 Comments | Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), July, 2002

Byline: Ron Bellamy / The Register-Guard

OUT OF TOWN last week, I missed the NBA draft on television, and so picked up a copy of the San Francisco Chronicle the next morning in search of the fate of Oregon guard Frederick Jones.

Based on pre-draft projections, I started reading from the bottom of the first round, and scanned up for a dozen picks or so. No Freddie.

Only mildly surprised, I flipped to the inside page, and went through the entire second round. No Freddie.

Poor Freddie, I thought. How disappointing.

Whereupon I read the first-round selections more carefully, and learned that "poor Freddie" certainly doesn't apply to Mr. Jones, about to become a millionaire after being selected with the No. 14 pick by the Indiana...