"Andre Iguodala was the talk of the town all day leading up to the NBA draft. Would he be dealt to the Lakers? Or maybe go to Minnesota?

At day's end, however, No. 9 is still with the franchise that drafted him in the spring of 2004.

A draft day trade seemed unlikely. But an Iguodala trade remains a possibility given that Golden State selected Klay Thompson -- a shooting guard who averaged 22 points for Washington State last season -- with the No. 11 pick Thursday night.

That means the Warriors now have prominent perimeter players in Stephen Curry, Monta Ellis and Thompson. It would appear someone there has to be on the move. Maybe the Ellis-for-Iguodala trade talk gets revisited, despite the fact that Warriors head coach Mark Jackson said, in an interview with ESPN during the draft, that they intend to keep Ellis.

As general manager Ed Stefanski said when asked about the many trades that came up on this day, "It would be nice if the phones had truth meters," indicating the number of conversations that take place between teams that have no chance of ever happening.

On a day when the Philadelphia Flyers rocked the hockey world trading Jeff Carter and Mike Richards, as well as signing goaltender Ilya Bryzgaloz, the Sixers had little chance of taking center stage in the Philadelphia sports world even if they had traded the A.I. this city loves to dislike.

And so the team adds a 20-year-old big man who is foreign but also has three years of college experience."