The ultimate out-of-nowhere story

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Bucher/Broussard: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/news/story?id=4889832&addata=2009_insdr_mod_nba_xxx_xxx">Next-best in West is ...
Hollinger: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=hollinger_john&page=PERDiem-100209&addata=2009_insdr_mod_nba_xxx_xxx">Overrated and underrated storylines
Thorpe: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/nba/insider/columns/story?columnist=thorpe_david&page=Rookies-100203&addata=2009_insdr_mod_nba_xxx_xxx">Rookie Watch: Midseason awards
NBA Draft Blog: <a name="&amp;lpos=story_in" href="http://insider.espn.go.com/espn/blog/index?entryID=4898289&name=nba_draft&addata=2009_insdr_mod_nba_xxx_xxx">International prospects

Updated: June 9, 2003, 12:58 PM ET

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By By Chad Ford
NBA Insider

CHICAGO -- The giant is out of the bag.

Two hundred NBA scouts and GMs crammed into the Gold Coast Multiplex on Friday to watch 7-foot-4, 300 pound Siberian center Pavel Podkolzine's first workout. The obscure 18-year-old big man whom no one had heard of six months ago went from the ultimate sleeper to a top-10 lock in slightly more than 40 minutes.

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