Ball Don't Lie continues counting down potential NBA Draft lottery picks. Because Skeets is far from a college ball expert, and I'm even farther, J.E. called in the big guns - The Dagger's MJD and Eamonn Brennan - to help break it down. Up next, the Memphis Grizzlies: 

KD's offseason outlook: Here's what people never seem to get - the Grizzlies made a good trade in the Pau Gasol deal. Every other option had the Grizz having to take on a big contract in exchange for Pau that the team did not need (Memphis, rebuilding, doesn't need 28 year-old Andres Nocioni at eight million a year). As it stands right now, the team is way under the salary cap even with Mike Miller still being able to be dangled as trade bait. I don't exactly trust GM Chris Wallace (or, more specifically, Wallace under owner Michael Heisley's direction) to spearhead the rebuilding movement, but this is a young team with talent that won't have to pay some guy in his prime a bunch of money for contributing to a 25-win team.

Needs: Certainly not another point guard. If there is any cut-and-dry time to draft for need this year, it might be with the Grizz going after Kevin Love. Love might average 5.9 fouls per game next year, but his all-around play could make life so much easier for his teammates.

So, with the 5th pick in the 2008 NBA Draft, the Memphis Grizzlies, represented by MJD from The Dagger, should select ...

Kevin Love, PF, UCLA

It's an odd little spot for the Grizzlies. The best players in the draft at this point are likely to be little guys, but the Grizzlies almost have to draft a big, don't they?

Kevin Love will be there, and say what you will about Love, but he's still a cut above the Kosta Koufuses, Anthony Randolphs, and Lopezes of the world.

And Love developed a pretty high-profile at UCLA, and he's a guy that the Grizzlies can sell, especially now that the NBA Finals made Pau Gasol look like a big Cabbage Patch Doll with a decent touch around the basket.

If the Grizz do decide to go guard, though, Russell Westbrook, and Eric Gordon are in play. So is Joe Alexander, if the Grizz think he can play the power forward spot for them. All signs point to Love, though.