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Michael Jordan was drafted #3 in the 1984 NBA draft, arguably the 'deepest' ever, in terms of talent. Ahead of him: Centers Akeem Olajuwan and Sam Bowie. Later picks of note: Sam Perkins, (#4), Sir Charles Barkley, (#5), Alvin Robertson, (#7), Otis Thorpe, (#9), Kevin Willis, (#11), John Stockton, (#16), Jerome Kersey, (#46), Jeff Cross, (#61), Rick Carlisle, (#70), and Oscar Schmidt, (#131). Schmidt never played in the NBA, but he's in the Basketball Hall of Fame, for his International and Olympic scoring prowess. He scored almost 50,000 points, in European leagues.
OKC drafted Durrant #2, after Portland selected Ohio State big man Greg Oden #1 in 2007. In hindsight, they should have known better; one of Oden's legs is/ was longer than the other, and he was never able to stay healthy for more than a few consecutive games. He was trying to make a comeback in a Chinese professional league recently, but that's just a pipe dream. That 2007 draft was a deep one, too.
The 1983 NFL draft had similar talent depth:
1983 NFL Draft - Wikipedia
This year's NBA draft has one of the best talent pools in many, many years, even more than 2007, in my opinion.
My pick for superstardom and his own 'signature shoe': De'Aaron Fox, the PG from Kentucky. The knock on him is that he's 'small', (6'3" and 175 lbs, but listed as 187), but this guy is the exception, where adding muscle in the weight room would slow him down. I liken him to an 'unselfish Allen Iverson'. He's also very down to earth in interviews.
His Wildcats teammate Malik Monk is a "Ray Allen clone", (not literally, of course; that can't be done yet, 'officially'). Monk is also undersized, but has 'the good face', as a baseball scout would say. When a player starts running down the court to play defense immediately after the ball leaves his hand, instead of waiting until it goes in or not, he's a shooter.
Ray Allen is an incredibly smart guy. He knew he would get a max contract, after his rookie deal expired, so instead of hiring an agent to get 10-15% of it, he hired Johnny Cochrane at about $600 an hour, to edit and approve the contractual wording. A guy like that doesn't file for bankruptcy during or immediately after his career, like so many other pro athletes that are excellent at living large, taking bad financial advice, and redistributing money into other people's pockets!
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I didn't know this part about Ray Allen except that he is a winner everywhere he goes. That was a wise move on his part by hiring a lawyer and if you think about it, 600 dollars an hour is peanuts compared to other lawyers'.
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@ Peace: I found it noteworthy that I had to prove that I was 'not a robot' twice after making minor edits to post #3, re: redistribution of money from athletes pockets to other pairs of pants...
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@ Dan: I would respond to that, if I had not already been warned about remarks deemed offensive to the 'Elgie Beatty' community.
The league should've stopped LeBron from recruiting Bosh and Keeping Wade in Miami.
Should've stopped the Durant signing.
Fine, I am on a dream world but seriously think about it. Is Paul and George joining Harden in Houston next?. Then what do the other 28 teams do?. Parity is good and may be NBA's biggest coming headache.
Should've stopped the Durant signing.
Fine, I am on a dream world but seriously think about it. Is Paul and George joining Harden in Houston next?. Then what do the other 28 teams do?. Parity is good and may be NBA's biggest coming headache.
