I’m a fairly new NBA fan so obviously I didn’t follow the league when these guys got drafted. But I’ve done reading up on it and Anthony Bennett, Greg Oden, and Darko Milicic are the three that probably come most readily to mind when I think about this question.
My question is who are some of the sneaky draft busts? The guys you consider huge busts that don’t really get talked about as much when this question comes up. I’d love to hear about some of those guys and learn some more about NBA history.
Not only was that a sneaky horrible bust of a pick, it basically changed the whole trajectory of the Suns. You can’t have two top 5 picks in consecutive years and go Dragan Bender and Josh Jackson, that’s immediate rebuild territory. The fact that they turned it around after two massive top 5 whiffs like that, and made the Finals not even 5 years later, is actually incredible.