"Timmy just wants to get minutes," Popovich said. "He's just trying to ingratiate himself."

The first round will begin at 8 p.m. Thursday. Teams will have 10 minutes to make selections in the first round. In 2011, the first round lasted three hours and 30 minutes. Thus, the first round is expected to end at approximately 11:30 p.m. on Thursday.

World Peace was making major contributions to the Lakers on both ends of the court before his ejection for yet another unpredictable outburst in the erstwhile Ron Artest's long history of misbehavior.

There, the disc problem was diagnosed. By then, the Magic were already prepared for bad news.

Two prospects from Albany, N.Y., notched wins.  Junior welterweight Amir Imam emerged as a fighter to watch after dispatching John Willoughby with a body shot at 1:17 into the second round, keeping his record perfect with four wins.  Heavyweight Trevor Bryan stayed unblemished at 3-0 after winning a unanimous decision over Brandon Spencer.

We should not let that happen. Maybe this baseball season we need a few million tee-shirts proclaiming that Flood and Miller must get into the Hall of Fame.  What do you think?