15 of the Worst Draft Day Decisions in NBA History

[Braincells]

http://my.xfinity.com/slideshow/sports-worstdraftdecisions/1/

Agree or disagree? Here's the abridged list (not ranked in any particular order):

1. Thabeet
2. Kwa-may Brown
3. Pacers trading a young Antonio Davis for Jonathan Bender
4. Nikoloz Tskitishvili (Nuggets) over Amare or Butler
5. Darko in 2003 draft
6. Robert Sarver of the Suns trading away draft picks - Deng, Iggy, Rondo were crucial pieces the Suns needed to win championship
7. Greg Oden
8. Sixers screwing up team by trading away Brad Daugherty (1st pick) for Roy Hinson and cash in 1986
9. Hornets trading Kobe for Divac
10. Blazers drafting Bowie over Jordan in 1984.
11. Bucks trading Robert Traylor for Dirk Nowitzki in 1998.
12. Sonics trading Scottie Pippen for Olden Polynice
13. Every First Round Pick the Clippers Made Between 1984-2002 Other Than Danny Manning.
14. Shawn Bradley (Sixers) in 91 draft.
15. Vitaly Potapenko (Cavaliers) over Kobe, Peja and Nash in 1997 Daft.

[TaLvsCuaL]

Picking Oden was not a bad decision at that time. Portland is just cursed. He could have been a great player without injuries.

[NewYorkNoPicks]

The New York Knicks select Michael Sweetney over Amare Stoudemire

The New York Knicks trade Marcus Camby, Mark Jackson, and Nene for Antonio McDyess

The New York Knicks select Frederic Weiss over Ron Artest

[jayfan]

Darko, Bowie and Oden are 1, 2 & 3.




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[outbreak]

In hindsight sure but alot of those teams did the same thing every other team would have done

[Hamtaro CP3KDKG]

Dirk trade should be much higher

[jzek]

Is Thabeet still in the NBA?

Also, is the idiot who drafted him still in the NBA?

[sd3035]

Darko, Bowie and Oden are 1, 2 & 3.




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I'd replace Oden with Kwame Brown

[Milbuck]

The Bucks never had Dirk. We didn't just draft Dirk and say "nah, f*ck him." The Mavs wanted Dirk but knew there was no rush to get him with their 6th pick because he wasn't super sought after by the other teams in the top 8, so they traded down to 9th and picked him there with our pick while getting another asset. Whether the trade happened or not Dirk would've been a Maverick. If we said no they would've taken him 6th.

[jayfan]

I'd replace Oden with Kwame Brown

Nah. The 2001 draft was weak. The two best players out of that draft were European and relatively unknown at the time. No one was held to near the esteem that Durant was in 2007.



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[outbreak]

Is Thabeet still in the NBA?

Also, is the idiot who drafted him still in the NBA?

He was the second pick on pretty much every mock draft at the time, all the consensus ones had him as the second pick it isn't like he was a stretch that didn't pan it they took the BPA based on the analysis at the time.

A bad decision from that draft is taking Johnny Flynn at 6 when you already took Rubio and Flynn was mocked as a late lottery pick

[Legends66NBA7]

Raptors have a lot of mentions.

[j3lademaster]

What's wrong with other the Kobe/ divac trade? Kobe wasn't going to play for Charlotte, and no matter how high you are on one player, you can't expect to get much more than what the market values him at.

[FireDavidKahn]

You can't really use hindsight for draft day decisions...

Oden shouldn't really be up there. He and Durant were both seen as virtual identical prospects.

[QuebecBaller]

13. Every First Round Pick the Clippers Made Between 1984-2002 Other Than Danny Manning.

:lol :lol

[RedBlackAttack]

You can't really use hindsight for draft day decisions...

Oden shouldn't really be up there. He and Durant were both seen as virtual identical prospects.
Draft day "mistakes" are a revisionist historian's stomping ground. Pretty much every team in the league would have taken Oden No. 1, including probably the Sonics.

They happened to be in the right spot in the right year.

Striking gold on draft day can be as much about luck as about talent evaluation and intelligence. If the Bulls had the #2 overall pick in 2011 instead of the #30 pick, they likely have Derrick Williams instead of Jimmy Butler. Williams was basically everyone's No. 2 player on that board and Butler was a consensus late-first, early-second round pick.

This board, in particular, was outraged when the Sonics took Westrook instead of Jerryd Bayless. If you go back and read the thread, it's hilarious.

http://www.insidehoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=93142&page=8

It looks foolish in hindsight, but that's the way these kind of articles work.