This is a list of all of the Rockets draft picks sorted by the number of Win Shares they contributed to the team over their career. Code: Player Year Round Pick GP PPG RPG APG WS Hakeem Olajuwon 1984 1 1 1177 22.5 10.5 2.5 170.6 Yao Ming 2002 1 1 486 19.0 9.2 1.6 66.0 Robert Reid 1977 2 40 762 11.6 0.9 3.0 62.4 Allen Leavell 1979 5 104 700 9.5 0.5 4.8 48.3 Rodney McCray 1983 1 3 405 12.5 4.3 3.7 42.4 Steve Francis 1999 1 2 384 19.0 6.0 6.3 40.3 John Lucas 1976 1 1 325 11.6 0.7 7.3 39.9 Cuttino Mobley 1998 2 41 436 17.1 4.0 2.7 35.0 Mike Newlin 1971 2 24 203 11.8 0.0 4.0 27.3 Ralph Sampson 1983 1 1 305 19.7 4.7 2.7 23.9 Buck Johnson 1986 1 20 432 9.6 3.6 1.8 18.6 Robert Horry 1992 1 11 295 10.5 5.3 3.1 18.2 Chandler Parsons 2011 2 38 213 14.1 5.2 3.3 18.1 Carl Landry 2007 2 31 163 11.2 5.1 0.6 15.6 Luther Head 2005 1 24 255 8.8 2.7 2.3 12.7 Aaron Brooks 2007 1 26 297 11.7 1.8 3.3 12.7 Jim Petersen 1984 3 51 293 7.6 4.7 1.2 12.6 Sam Cassell 1993 1 24 209 10.1 2.6 4.2 10.9 Terrence Jones 2012 1 18 128 11.0 6.4 1.1 10.7 Kenny Thomas 1999 1 22 238 9.8 6.3 1.5 10.1 Chase Budinger 2009 2 44 210 9.4 3.4 1.4 9.6 Carl Herrera 1990 2 30 260 6.0 4.3 0.7 9.0 Patrick Patterson 2010 1 14 163 8.4 4.3 0.9 7.1 Donatas Motiejunas 2011 1 20 177 8.2 4.2 1.1 6.6 Eddie Griffin 2001 1 7 150 8.7 5.8 0.9 6.4 Othella Harrington 1996 2 30 156 6.6 4.2 0.4 5.0 Ed Ratleff 1973 1 6 105 4.4 0.0 1.9 4.2 Tom Owens 1971 4 58 46 4.1 0.0 0.4 3.8 Derrick Chievous 1988 1 16 122 8.1 2.7 0.9 2.5 Michael Dickerson 1998 1 14 50 10.9 1.7 1.9 2.2 Steve Harris 1985 1 19 145 6.6 1.7 1.2 2.2 Joey Dorsey 2008 2 33 79 2.5 3.9 0.4 2.1 Marcus Morris 2011 1 14 71 7.1 3.3 0.7 1.8 Steve Novak 2006 2 32 70 2.7 0.9 0.2 1.6 Bryce Drew 1998 1 16 106 5.1 1.3 2.0 1.3 Rudy White 1975 3 47 76 2.9 0.0 0.8 1.2 Terence Morris 2001 2 33 117 3.7 2.9 0.8 1.1 Bostjan Nachbar 2002 1 15 75 2.9 1.5 0.6 1.0 Isaiah Canaan 2013 2 34 47 5.4 1.2 1.1 0.9 Craig Ehlo 1983 3 48 88 2.4 0.5 0.7 0.8 Dave Feitl 1986 2 43 114 3.2 1.9 0.3 0.7 Kostas Papanikolaou 2012 2 48 43 4.2 2.7 2.0 0.6 Anthony Bowie 1986 3 66 66 4.3 1.8 1.5 0.6 Jason Collier 2000 1 15 61 3.5 2.4 0.3 0.6 Eric Riley 1993 2 33 47 1.9 1.3 0.2 0.4 Dave Jamerson 1990 1 15 85 3.6 0.9 0.7 0.4 Chuck Nevitt 1982 3 63 52 1.8 1.3 0.1 0.2 Jeff Taylor 1982 2 42 44 3.6 0.0 2.5 0.2 Zan Tabak 1991 2 52 37 2.0 1.5 0.1 0.1 Randy Livingston 1996 2 42 64 3.9 1.5 2.4 0.1 Vassilis Spanoulis 2004 2 50 31 2.7 0.7 0.9 0.1 Jermaine Taylor 2009 2 32 39 4.3 1.4 0.5 0.1 Clint Capela 2014 1 25 12 2.7 3.0 0.2 0.1 Larry Spriggs 1981 4 81 4 3.5 0.0 1.0 0.0 Tito Maddox 2002 2 37 9 1.2 0.8 0.6 0.0 E.C. Coleman 1973 3 51 6 1.8 0.0 0.2 0.0 Terry Teagle 1982 1 16 143 7.7 0.0 1.5 0.0 Richard Petruska 1993 2 46 22 2.4 1.4 0.0 0.0 Phil Hicks 1976 2 27 2 0.0 0.0 0.5 0.0 Phil Bond 1977 3 62 7 0.6 0.0 0.3 -0.1 Nick Johnson 2014 2 42 28 2.6 1.4 0.4 -0.1 John Stroud 1980 2 27 9 2.8 0.0 1.0 -0.1 Paul Mokeski 1979 2 42 12 2.4 0.0 0.2 -0.1 Dan Langhi 2000 2 31 67 2.9 1.6 0.3 -0.2 Larry Moffett 1977 2 34 20 0.8 0.0 0.4 -0.2 John Turner 1991 1 20 42 2.8 1.9 0.3 -0.2 Alonzo Bradley 1977 2 29 99 4.4 0.0 0.7 -0.3 Conner Henry 1986 4 89 18 1.3 0.4 0.4 -0.3 Lee Johnson 1979 1 17 10 1.7 0.0 0.1 -0.3 Rodrick Rhodes 1997 1 24 61 5.7 1.2 1.8 -1.0
The list also includes anyone the Rockets traded the draft rights for, only if they traded for them near the draft. This means players like Chase Budinger (technically drafted by the Pistons) and Carl Landry (technically drafted by the Sonics) can show up. It excludes draft rights that were traded for more than a year after the draft (Luis Scola) because those weren't really draft targets by the Rockets.
Rudy Gay, Richard Jefferson and Nic Batum never played for the Rockets. The list sorts every player based on the total win shares they contributed to the Rockets only.
The post Clutch City days until Yao are pretty rough. Bryce Drew, Othella Harrington, Eddie Griffin (RIP). I remember people were saying Eddie Griffin had KG-like potential, he certainly had all the tools...
I didn't include anyone originally drafted by the San Diego Rockets. Here is that list: Code: Player Year Round Pick GP PPG WS Calvin Murphy 1970 2 18 520 17.9 86.2 Rudy Tomjanovich 1970 1 2 292 17.6 56.6 Elvin Hayes 1968 1 1 244 11.3 17.2 Billy Paultz 1970 7 103 240 5.6 9.2
Luther Head above Sam Cassell? Win shares is a decent stat but taking out playoff contributions seems wrong in this case.
What's sad is he doesn't have negative win shares, so he's still higher than someof the others on the list.
Mobley at 2nd round, 41st overall was pretty nice. But CD deserves less than 0 credit for that, because even a broke clock is right twice a day. He passed on H-Town legend Rashard Lewis for the likes of....oh lets see... 14th pick Michael Dickerson 16th pick Bryce Drew 18th pick Mirsad Türkcan Don't feel ashamed if have no idea who those 3 guys are. 1 played like what, 1 and a 1/2 seasons before flunking out of the NBA, the other stringed together a 4 year mediocre NBA career, and 1 ended up playing 0 minutes in the NBA.
