10 biggest steals in the draft

[WisconsinCard]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/3708848?GT1=6555


10 biggest steals of the draft...Amare Number 1.

2 suns draft picks make the list...

 

[Yuma]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nba/story/3708848?GT1=6555


10 biggest steals of the draft...Amare Number 1.

2 suns draft picks make the list...

That's cool! I haven't read the article, but I saw the title and thought to myself that Amare HAS to be on the list!

 

[elindholm]

It's a nice article, but frankly Bryant has to be on the list, otherwise it's just too arbitrary to be interesting. I'd put Nowitzki there too.

 

[Yuma]

It's a nice article, but frankly Bryant has to be on the list, otherwise it's just too arbitrary to be interesting. I'd put Nowitzki there too.

Bryant was highly known, the only risk back then was he was a high school guy. That was before the NBA went on it's recent binge on high school players. Even then, Jerry West was highly criticised because it took a couple years for Kobe to get going. I would put Amare ahead of Kobe based just on Amare producing so much so soon. Amare is a freak when you look at other high school guys and their first 3 years stats. All Amare needs is a ring, then he will be huge in the NBA. Not that Bryant doesn't belong on the list, but his talent was known, he wasn't that much a steal.

 

[scotsman13]

nash and amare are on it. kobe isnt, i think they talk about dirk in it but they go back aways on it.

the suns have had a lot of steals in draft, finley, person, marion, horny and ceballos. heck they even picked up perry (cba) and traded him for a 1st round draft pick.

 

[Gorilla]

I would have Manu instead of Parker..... Manu was a 28th pick.

Edit: 28 pick in the 2nd round

 

[elindholm]

Not that Bryant doesn't belong on the list, but his talent was known, he wasn't that much a steal.

If other GMs thought Bryant had a chance of being this good, there's no way he would have lasted to #13. He was taken behind Lorenzen Wright, Kerry Kittles, Samaki Walker, Todd Fuller, and Vitaly Potapenko.

 

[Yuma]

Not that Bryant doesn't belong on the list, but his talent was known, he wasn't that much a steal.

If other GMs thought Bryant had a chance of being this good, there's no way he would have lasted to #13. He was taken behind Lorenzen Wright, Kerry Kittles, Samaki Walker, Todd Fuller, and Vitaly Potapenko.

I watched that draft and the analysts were wondering who would take a chance on drafting Kobe since he was a high schooler. Everyone in the draft room knew Kobe would EVENTUALLY be good, but the risk is he would be good AFTER his rookie contract was up. Jerry West was rumored to like Kobe, and he took that risk. Like I said, the first couple years a lot of Laker faithful were blasting West because Kobe wasn't contributing. Now, in hindsight, you probably can't find a Laker fan that will admit they were down on the Kobe draft pick at first.

 

[Joe Mama]

I watched that draft and the analysts were wondering who would take a chance on drafting Kobe since he was a high schooler. Everyone in the draft room knew Kobe would EVENTUALLY be good, but the risk is he would be good AFTER his rookie contract was up. Jerry West was rumored to like Kobe, and he took that risk. Like I said, the first couple years a lot of Laker faithful were blasting West because Kobe wasn't contributing. Now, in hindsight, you probably can't find a Laker fan that will admit they were down on the Kobe draft pick at first.

I understand what you're saying, but it wouldn't matter. If they had known he was going to be as good as he is Kobe Bryant would have been taken at the top of the draft. They would take the gamble on whether they would be able to re-sign him.

Man, thank goodness for the rookie contract rules that were brought about in the last CBA.

Joe Mama

 

[newfan101]

It's a nice article, but frankly Bryant has to be on the list, otherwise it's just too arbitrary to be interesting. I'd put Nowitzki there too.

Tiny Archibald, Calvin Murphy, Bill Laimbeer, Dennis Johnson and Clyde Drexler should be on the list as well.

Curtis Rowe? And how did John Stockton and Karl Malone end up on the "also in this category" list?

 

[lancelet's cousin]

The problem with Kobe wasn't just that teams didn't know how good he would be. It was widely reported at the time that he was going to be selective in which team took him. Most didn't want to run the risk of draft a player that refused to report.

Kobe has had his way since the beginning.

 

[Cheesebeef]

Like I said, the first couple years a lot of Laker faithful were blasting West because Kobe wasn't contributing. Now, in hindsight, you probably can't find a Laker fan that will admit they were down on the Kobe draft pick at first.

this is so wrong. The only time people were complaining that Kobe wasn't contributing was when he shot 4 airballs his rookie year in Utah in the playoffs. His second year, the kid averaged 16 points off the bench and was a key part of a team that won 61 games and got to the Conference Finals.

If he's not ont he list, the list has ZERO credibility.

 

[Gaddabout]

Wait a minute ... Jayson Williams could have been the Suns best and worst pick. Did the Knicks draft Jerrod Mustaf? I sense a whole new draft list.