I love basketball, and I will usually defend any aspect of it to the death. Yet even I had a hard time gearing up for the NBA Draft this year, considering the dearth of talent available to be selected.

Even as I halfheartedly kept track online, I found myself far more invested in a Parks and Recreation repeat featuring the best character on TV, Ron Swanson. Still, there were some things that I found interesting about this year’s draft, and I suppose there are some picks that might just help a few teams down the road (after the upcoming lockout, that is).

Let’s take a look back and try to contain our collective excitement.

SCORE ONE FOR LEBRON

It’s been a tough few weeks for LeBron James, but at least he probably chuckled at the Cleveland Cavaliers bad fortune to have two of the first four picks in a draft that was about zero deep in top-flight talent. Kyrie Irving was probably the right choice for the top pick but that says more about the quality of the draft than it does about his talent. And Tristan Thompson seems like a big-time reach as the fourth pick, considering that he’s probably about three years away from really doing damage, at which point he’ll likely be doing it for another team.

It’s now Dan Gilbert’s serve in this bad karma tetherball game.

I THOUGHT BISMACK WAS IN NORTH DAKOTA

With foreigners going in four of the top seven spots, it was hard for anyone except Fran Fraschilla to get too excited. No one knows how these guys and their overseas escapades will translate to the NBA game. What I do know is that I attempted to type out all of their names and my Spell Check punched me in the face.

UM, YOU DID WATCH THE TOURNAMENT, DIDN’T YOU?

Like I said, I don’t know the foreign players that well, and I can understand some teams’ preoccupation with size in the first few picks. That does not, in any way, explain how the Pistons could choose Brandon Knight over Kemba Walker. Yes, Knight is a few years younger, but other than that, Walker has it over him in every possible way.

Joe Dumars loss is his old adversary Michael Jordan’s gain, since the Bobcats end up with Walker and get a charismatic face for their rebuilding efforts.

MOM ALWAYS LIKED YOU BEST, AND SO DOES PHOENIX

What do you suppose the odds are of two twin brothers getting chosen in the very same NBA Draft? Now take those odds and reduce them even further to having two brothers go back-to-back.

What have you got? Need to narrow it down more? How about the odds for two brothers getting picked back-to-back in the first round even after their powerhouse BCS school got dumped by Northern Iowa and VCU in the past two NCAA Tournaments? OK, cheap shot.

For the record, I thought that Marcus was the better of the two Morris twins over Markieff in college, even though Markieff went to the Suns a pick before Marcus got scooped up by the Houston Rockets.

IT WASN’T ALL BAD

In many ways, I thought that the second half of the first round featured more solid picks than the first. As anyone who read my sleepers article can tell you, I liked Kenneth Faried, Reggie Jackson and Marshon Brooks, who all went between picks 22 and 25. I also think that Nikola Vucevic and Chris Singleton were nice picks at 16 and 18.

It seems like this draft was all about potential early and production late, as the better teams went with production to fill in gaps in their lineups.

Time will tell how those strategies will work out. But I don’t think time is going to change the overall opinion of this year’s NBA Draft too much.

If I were running a team, I would have selected Ron Swanson, who, at the very least, could provide comic relief.