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NBA - best/worst picks by team - Yao > Dream? - WTF?

Discussion in 'Houston Rockets: Game Action & Roster Moves' started by SunsRocketsfan, May 16, 2017.

  1. SunsRocketsfan

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    Edit: Just realized this list is for the NBA draft LOTTERY which started in 85. My bad.. now that makes sense.

    http://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/page/nbarank-19393608/every-team-best-worst-lottery-picks

    Houston Rockets
    Best: Yao Ming, No. 1, 2002

    Worst: Eddie Griffin, No. 7, 2001

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    Despite having his career cut short by injuries, Yao still rates as easily the Rockets' best lottery pick.

    On the other end of the spectrum, Houston traded three first-rounders to the New Jersey Nets -- one of which was used on Richard Jefferson -- to take Griffin in 2001. Alcoholism helped prevent Griffin from taking advantage of his prodigious skills, and more tragically led to Griffin's death in 2007 when his SUV was struck by a train.
     
  2. FTW Rockets FTW

    FTW Rockets FTW Contributing Member

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    Author must be Pruyen
     
  3. Ziggy

    Ziggy QUEEN ANON

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    Didn't read, but technically, Olajuwon wasn't a lotto pick. NEXT.
     
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  4. Jake Tower

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    Dream was a coin flip.
     
  5. DrNuegebauer

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    We only had 8 lotto picks since 1985 and only 2 of those top 10....
     
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    Kinda lame to choose Eddie Griffin, in my opinion.
     
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    EG was actually pretty good in minny. He was panning out but we know what happen after that. RIP big fella
     
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    It has been so long that you have forgotten his name - PrYuen

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    Yao was very good
     
  10. napalm06

    napalm06 Huge Flopping Fan

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    Right.
    And I don't know which of these guys were truly lottery but there are better options:
    Jeremy Lamb
    John Turner
     
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    ESPN is a cat piss, but ESPN Insider's Chad Ford and Kevin Pelton share their lists of the best and worst lottery picks by team in the 32 years since the NBA instituted the draft lottery in 1985

    ...so technically that's true
     
  12. HTX Ninja

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    Money and Publicity is what make's Yao, the Rocket's best lotto pick. Les was banking after all those Chinese fans were buying Yao jerseys.
     

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