[Podcast] Worst NBA Draft Picks Since 2000
The NBA Draft is a time full of hope for losing teams, which often turns to despair when those teams fail in their player evaluation.
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The NBA Draft was Wednesday night, a night full of hope for many bad teams. While every organizations is feeling great about their picks now, some will look back at this night with disdain after making bad picks. Gabe Ibrahim and Alex Lange go back through NBA Draft History since 2000 and talk about the worst picks in those drafts. They start off with a debate about the worst pick between Darko Miličić over Carmelo Anthony (and Chris Bosh and Dwyane Wade), Deandre Ayton/Marvin Bagley III over Luka Dončić, and Anthony Bennett over anybody else. Then, they draft the worst team they can from lottery picks drafted since the 2000 NBA Draft.
Gabe’s team:
Yaroslav Korolev, Wing, 2005 #12, LA Clippers
Story on why the Clips picked Korolev
Nik Stauskas, Guard, 2014 #12, Sacramento
Jimmer Fredette, Guard, 2011 #10, Sacramento
Mouhamed Sene, Big, 2006 #10, Seattle
Georgios Papagiannis, Big, 2016 #13, Sacramento
(Signed Nikoloz Tskitishvili, Big, 2002 #5, Denver as an undrafted free agent)
Alex’s team:
Jan Vesely, Wing, 2011 # 6, Washington
Joe Alexander, Wing, 2008 #8, Milwaukee
Johnny Flynn, Guard, 2009 #8, Minnesota
Emmanuel Mudiay, Guard, 2015 #7, Denver
Dragan Bender, 2016 #4, Phoenix
(Signed Stanley Johnson, Wing, 2015 #8, Detroit as undrafted free agent)
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