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The Sixth Man: Lillard crashes the NBA Draft party

Outsiders are rarely welcomed into the VIP Room at the local nightclub.That's the partitioned off area typically enclosed by fixed walls along with a velvet rope and only the rich and famous need apply.Coming into the 2012 NBA Draft there was a chance that 30 percent of the first round would feature players from either Kentucky or North Carolina, two traditional powerhouses and the very definition of the privileged in the world of college basketball. In fact, you could call those two programs the one percent of college hoops.The equivalent of a VIP Room at a television event is the "green room" and the NBA annually invites a number of the top prospects to sit in its special area set aside for them, along with their families and agents.This season, the consensus No. 1 overall pick, Anthony Davis, was given the special treatment along with his teammate at Kentucky, Michael Kidd-Gilchrist.The Tar Heels' Harrison Barnes, Tyler Zeller and John Henson were also there along with players from ...

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