Revisiting the WOAT NBA Draft

NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong

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Its 2000...BY FAR.

Kenyon, Mike Miller, Jamal Crawford, Hedo, Mason, QRich, MoPete, House, Najera, Michael Redd, Dooling, Claxton, Swift, Etan Thomas and Darius Miles had the best careers. All role players for a good amount of their careers..outside of Michael Redd (who had terrible injuries). Kenyon, Miller, Crawford and Hedo were good players for pretty much their whole careers until the twilight but not close to superstars (or even stars). DMiles had a couple years where he flashed a lot of talent and put up buckets but he never put it together..then had an injury that put the nail in the coffin when it seemed like he may have begun to be a legit player. I held out hope for the StroShow for almost forever but other than highlight dunks and blocks he was never more than a good role player on average-below average teams in a brief span.

This is the only draft that had a negative cumulative WAR (-17.3)...so it actually made the talent pool worse. :russ:

So many terrible players.
 

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2013 is pretty fukking bad thus far

I actually think it might not be that bad. Not saying it's great, but everyone was pretty harsh about it. Look closely and there's some good talent.

Possible future All Stars/fringe All Stars:
Giannis Antetokounmpo
Victor Oladipo
Rudy Gobert
Nerlens Noel
Dennis Schroder
Ben McLemore
Michael Carter Williams

Good starter/bench players:
Kelly Olynyk
Otto Porter
Steven Adams
Alex Len
Mason Plumlee
Shabazz Muhammad
Gorgui Dieng

For one draft, that's pretty good and blows away the 2000 Draft.
 

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Redd was pretty good when healthy

Definitely. Great shooter.Could've ended up with the best career out of anyone in the draft. I remember being surprised he dropped that far..he was nice in college. If Kenyon didnt tear his acl at cincy he would have been a great player..had a pretty damn good career anyway. Those would probably be top 2 peaks out of these guys with Crawford and Miller right behind them.

Not sure how many people remember..but Darius was playing very very well and much smarter right before his injury. Shame *double taps headband*
 

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Frederic Weiss :russ:

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