[Trivia] How well do you know your #1 Draft Picks

Anybody from 1979 and on I pretty much knew. It's the older ones that got me.

 

spoiler that pic for anyone who wants to try but doesnt know the answers.

 

34/40, not too bad for being born after the david robinson got drafted

 

woohoo ..37 out of 40

i missed Doug Collins, LaRue Martin (you have to be some sort of loser to have guessed him) and Bob Lanier (you have to be some sort of loser to have missed him)

 

dude i typed in only last names which worked fine - so when you get kenyon you get larue, same with David/Mychal Thompson, Magic/Larry Johnson, Andrea/Fabio Bargnani

 

I got 32/40, I knew everything from 1978 on except for Mark Aguirre. I was born in 88, so I forgive myself for missing the late 60's and the 70's except for the obvious ones like Kareem, Thompson, Walton, and Magic. Mychal Thompson is actually a radio host around here and does color for the Lakers radio broadcast, so I knew him too but I would have never realized he existed otherwise.

I should have known Larue Martin because of his comparison to Yao Ming by Dick Vitale. I also never knew that Doug Collins was the #1 overall draft pick, no wonder he was so hard on Kwame Brown.

 

I can't believe Mr G-flopper was taken SO late in the draft.

 

argh, all i remember is all the houston picks and those in the past 15 years, along with the few "gimme" questions like magic, cant believe i left out kareem..... and i still can't get the spelling of ollowondi....

 

Great poll!

I got 32 of 40, I missed Ellison, Collins, Aguirre, Ellison, Robinson, Benson, Martin, Carr and Lanier. I was darn close on Aguirre and Ellison!

 

I remembered LaRue because of the ridiculously terrible rants of Dick Vitale when we drafted Yao who was supposed to be the second coming of LaRue according to him.

While drafting Jay Williams was going to move us into the winners circle.

I wonder how that went

 

I missed Olajuwon.

 

24/40 rookies... - i missed out coleman amongst others. but then i scored a perfect 43/43 on the presidents-game

 

i would have gotten 33 if i knew how to spell brad's last name and michael's for the clippers

edit: oh yeah, new the italian dude but forgot his name completely for toronto

edit2: wow I couldn't spell joe barry's last name either, so I'll assume i would have gotten 35. I'm a spelling wreck

 

36/40

Technically I got an extra one when I typed in "Carroll" for Joe Barry Carroll, and it recognized Austin Carr before I got finished typing. So I probably only got 35 correct.

Oh well.....

I missed Bob Lanier, Doug Collins, John Lucas, and Kent Benson (who???).

 

32/40. 1981+ I was perfect.

I remember Mychal Thompson and JBC playing, but didn't realize they were number 1 picks.

 

I got them all

 

31/40

Basically getting all the ones from when I started watching basketball at 7 and a few lucky ones from the past that I just knew.