Worst draft pick in the last 10 years.

[zong]

Hoffa Araujo, dammit we shoulda got Iggy!

[NO-KG-AI]

Darko will end up being a better player than Ford and Kirk so not sure why they are on the list.

LOL, gotta love false hope.

And that list forgot David West.

[Smills91]

I'd say Kwame...is there a worst pick, ever?

[ponder276]

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LOL, gotta love false hope.

And that list forgot David West.

It wasn't a list of other good players available in the 03 draft - then I'd have to include guys like David West, Barbosa, Josh Howard, Mo Williams, Travis Outlaw, Diaw, Perkins, etc. It was just a list of the next 6 picks after Darko (picks 3 through 8 in the draft) to prove how hard it was to miss in this draft. The 3 picks after Darko (melo, bosh, wade) are all already all stars, kaman is soon to be an all star, and TJ and Kirk are both very solid role players (well, very solid until TJ's brutal injury, and Chicago's meltdown).
Kwame, as a player, is roughly equal to Darko, but if you look at the next few picks after Kwame vs. the next few picks after Darko, the Darko pick is obviously so much worse.
Hoffa is a much worse player than either Darko or Kwame, but he was picked 8th overall, so expectations were not as high. Luke Jackson went 10th, Robert Swift went 12th, Telfair 13th, Humphries 14th - it was very easy to pick a marginal player at that point in the draft, even though there were still good players like Iggy, big Al, J-smoove and Biedrins left.

[mattyj]

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It wasn't a list of other good players available in the 03 draft - then I'd have to include guys like David West, Barbosa, Josh Howard, Mo Williams, Travis Outlaw, Diaw, Perkins, etc. It was just a list of the next 6 picks after Darko (picks 3 through 8 in the draft) to prove how hard it was to miss in this draft. The 3 picks after Darko (melo, bosh, wade) are all already all stars, kaman is soon to be an all star, and TJ and Kirk are both very solid role players (well, very solid until TJ's brutal injury, and Chicago's meltdown).
Kwame, as a player, is roughly equal to Darko, but if you look at the next few picks after Kwame vs. the next few picks after Darko, the Darko pick is obviously so much worse.
Hoffa is a much worse player than either Darko or Kwame, but he was picked 8th overall, so expectations were not as high. Luke Jackson went 10th, Robert Swift went 12th, Telfair 13th, Humphries 14th - it was very easy to pick a marginal player at that point in the draft, even though there were still good players like Iggy, big Al, J-smoove and Biedrins left.

Yes but Darko was the consensus #2 pick in that draft...you are blaming the pistons for picking a player than 29 other GMs would have picked

Kwame Brown was NOT the consensus #1 pick in 2001...Do a google search for 2001 NBA Mock draft, and you will see, Eddie Griffin, Eddy Curry, Gasol, Richardson, CHandler, all could have gone #1...The ONLY reason Jordan picked Kwame was because he "wowed" him in a workout and schooled Tyson CHandler, which therefore makes that pick worse than the Darko one, because it shouldnt have been Kwame, it should have been someone else

[NO-KG-AI]

Darko wasn't the consensus number 2, Hell, some people had Melo as the Number 1.

[mattyj]

Show me a mock that had Melo #1 please

Ok he may not have been consensus #2, but he WAS consensus top 3...show me a mock that had Wade, Bosh, Hinrich, Ford, Kaman, Howard, Barbosa, etc ahead of him

The top 3 in that draft were LeBron, Darko, Melo...

[jeremy1215]

Darko, Skita, Kwame, and Kandi, you choose.

[Jemini80]

Darko is not a bust, these same people called Jermaine O'neal a bust until he developed.

give Darko time, why am I, as a Knicks fan having to defend him? Where are ther Grizz fans, are there even any of them on realgm?

[Vlade4life]

Worst in hindsight or worst at the time?

[Grenerd686]

worst pick in last 10 years Rafael Araujo. He was 8th overall in 04. Drafted before iggy, nelson, al jefferson, josh smith. You could even make the case that ariza has had a better NBA career than Araujo. And Ariza was taken in the mid second round. In addition he may have a career ending injury - time will tell. Araujo is not in the league any more. That is a wasted pick by toronto.

[Pats19andO]

How did DET get the #2 pick? Didnt they make ECF that yr

[DanTown8587]

How did DET get the #2 pick? Didnt they make ECF that yr

The pick came from Memphis, who had the pick top 1 protected, so the final two guys are sitting there, Cleveland and Memphis. Beyond the "who gets LeBron drama" there was Memphis gets LeBron or Memphis gets nothing. The pick IS Darko because they took him then didn't play him. If they played him and he sucked, that would be one thing, but the guy couldn't even beat out guys. And you can't say "well everyone had Darko #2," because they were wrong then. Its your job as a GM to know whether or not certain players translate well or can play in your system, so just because everyone thought Darko was good at the time doesn't mean that the pick gets defended. As said before, if they passed on Darko for the obvious risk factors they get Melo-Bosh-Wade-Kaman, whoever was next on their board.

[ss-wiish!]

worst pick in last 10 years Rafael Araujo. He was 8th overall in 04. Drafted before iggy, nelson, al jefferson, josh smith. You could even make the case that ariza has had a better NBA career than Araujo. And Ariza was taken in the mid second round. In addition he may have a career ending injury - time will tell. Araujo is not in the league any more. That is a wasted pick by toronto.

my thoughts exactly...babcock=
http://www.gamefaqs.com/portable/psp/file/934395/50115

[catalyst]

I'd say Kwame...is there a worst pick, ever?

LaRue Martin is the worst all time draft pick.

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... ila01.html



Over the past 10 years has to be skita

http://www.basketball-reference.com/pla ... tni01.html