Sacramento selects Penn Charter's Singletary at No. 42

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, June, 2008 | by TED SILARY silaryt@phillynews.com

When you expect to be selected in the NBA draft, but unable to know for sure it'll happen, "wait'' becomes a dirty four-letter word.

So it was last night for Virginia point guard Sean Singletary, the pride of Penn Charter and West Mount Airy.

Pick . . . pick . . . pick. Names kept getting called and Singletary's wasn't one of them.

Then it happened. The 6-foot, 184-pounder, who'll turn 23 in September, went No. 42 to Sacramento.

ESPN was showing commercials when Singletary was picked at 11:10. Guess what? He wasn't watching.

"I watched the first part of the draft at my grandmom's house, maybe up until pick No. 25," he said. "Then I went to my friend's house, and he doesn't even have cable.

"I just wanted to get away from it. Wanted to stop...