The official Danilo Gallinari in 2008 thread!

[Chuck Diesel]

I compiled a list of all international players taken in the first round over the last ten years. This list doesn

[LUKE23]

I see two superstars (Dirk and Yao), three "stars" (Gasol, Parker, Kirilenko), and four good players (Barbosa, Biedrins, Nene, Turkoglu). The rests are either too early to call, role players, or busts.

That's an average of one first-round worthy foreign player on average per year.

[Chuck Diesel]

Ok I separated all the international guys into the categories you mentioned. I don't think it makes sense to lump "busts" and "role players"

Here are players I'd "busts" according to where they were picked in the first round, past NBA production and what they could possibly do in the future. There are 14 international busts.

Fran Vazquez
Yaroslav Korolev
Pavel Podkolzine
Viktor Khryapa
Sergei Monia
Zoran Plananic
Zarko Carbaraka (dam Danny Fortson)
Jiri Welsch
Tskitishveli
Raul Lopez-(Solid rookie season with the Jazz, knee injury pretty much shelved his career)
Dalibor Bagaric
Alex Radeojevic
Mirsad Turkan
Vladimir Stepania (although he did average 7 boards in 79 games for the Heat in (02-03)

Productive role players-13

Primoz Brezec could go in the "bust category, but he did average double digit points for two years in a row)
Rasho Nesterovic
Bostjan Nachbar
Darko Millicic
Vladimir Radmanovic
Mickael Pietrius
Carlos Delfino
Sasa Pavlovic
Beno Udrih
Sasa Vujacic
Nenad Kristic
Andrea Bargnani (all-ready a valuable role player, potential to get much better)
Yi Jianlian (see Bargnani)

Next Level- 5
These guys aren