[Snatalini247Participant]

 I believe most of you will probably remember this article Chad Ford posted two years ago:

http://www.espn.com/nba/draft2014/story/_/id/11099139/nba-draft-lebron-james-leads-rank-top-25-draft-prospects-last-15-years

I wanted to see if people would be interested in making our own versions before the upcoming season starts. Though I figured we could add in the year before (1999) when this site first started posting mock drafts, up to this upcoming 2017 draft. So bascially any prospect from the NBA Draft in 1999 to 2017. I’ll post my list in the next comment. Looking forward to seeing what some of the old heads on here come up with.

[Snatalini247Participant]

1. Lebron James (2003)

2. Greg Oden (2007)

3. Yao Ming (2002)

4. Anthony Davis (2012)

5. Kevin Durant (2007)

6. Darko Milicic (2003)

7. Derrick Rose (2008)

8. Carmelo Anthony (2003)

9. Andrew Wiggins (2014)* – I thought he would end up number two or three on this list after his senior year of high school.

10. Joel Embiid (2014)

11. Ben Simmons (2016)

12. Blake Griffin (2009)

13. John Wall (2010)

14. Karl Towns (2015)

15. Jay Williams (2002)

16. Mike Beasley (2008)

17. Dwight Howard (2004)

18. Kwame Brown (2001)

19. Jabari Parker (2014)

20. Andrw Bogut (2005)

21. Darius Miles (2000) * – This dude first got me in to the draft. I remember the highlight potential with him was insane back in the day. Surprised he never amounted to much.

22. Kyrie Irving (2011)

23. OJ Mayo (2008)

24. Jahlil Okafor (2015)

25. Brandon Ingram (2016)

I wasn’t sure where to put the class of 2017, its hard to judge this early in the year.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

[Robb_CParticipant]

 4 prospects from Chicago on this list in the short time span is incredible…  One could make a case for Eddy Curry as well if Okafor is on this list.. One could make the case that Curry was a better Talent, just a lacking work ethic

[Magic JordanParticipant]

 What are the rules here?  Obviously hindsight has to exist right?  Like I can throw Darko out because 1) He sucked…. and 2) I didn’t think he was a top prospect at the time.  So with those few ground rules in mind..

1) Lebron

2) KD

3) Yao

4) Greg oden

5) Joel Embiid

6) Dwight Howard

7) Andrew Wiggins 

8) D Rose

9) Melo

10) Anthony Davis

11) John Wall

12) Michael Beasley

13) Karl Towns

14) Ben Simmons

15) Jabari Parker

16) Blake Griffin

17) Brandon Ingram

18) Jahlil Okafor

19) CP3

20) Eddy Curry

21) Tyson Chandler

22) This is getting too hard I’m done.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Dazzling Dunks and Basketball BloopersParticipant]

 If your gonna go back to 1999 steve Francis was considered a potential superstar coming out of Maryland. He was a pretty big-time prospect at the number 2 pick probably even more so than number one pick elton Brand. He possessed athleticism at the pg spot that hadn’t really been seen before at that time. I would say he belongs somewhere on this list. 

I would also include Derrick williams. There was a lot of hype surrounding him after a phenomenal final season at Arizona and he was considered to be neck and neck with kyrie as to who would be the first pick. 

Beasley is too low one your list at 16 imo. The guy had maybe the best one and done season of all-time and was considered to be a superstar in the making pre-draft. I’d say at least half the teams in the league at the time would have taken him over rose.

Other than that, I’d move a few guys around a few spots and maybe take a few names off at the bottom in favor of some other guys. However, overall I have to admit this is a pretty decent list.

 

 

 

 

 

[Snatalini247Participant]

Looking over it I definitely have a few changes I want to make, for example the one with Beasley, and maybe even sneaking Eddy Curry in to the list and Williams, both Williams and Beasley werent far off from Rose and Irving at the time. It gets really cluttered with something like this though after the top 10. 

[NJHooper95Participant]

If we are going off potential and hype them then this is mine. 

1. Lebron James  

2.Greg Oden

3. Yao Ming

4. Jay Williams- was considered the best pg since JKidd the time.

5. Carmelo Anthony

6. Kevin Durant

7. Anthony Davis

8. Lamar Odom

 

 

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[wonzi_bellsParticipant]

1. LeBron James
2. Greg Oden
3. Kevin Durant
4. Yao Ming
5. Anthony Davis
6. Carmelo Anthony
7. Jay Williams
8. Joel Embiid
9. Blake Griffin
10. Darko Milicic
11. Karl-Anthony Towns
12. Derrick Rose
13. Andrew Wiggins
14. Michael Beasley
15. Dwight Howard
16. Elton Brand
17. Chris Paul
18. John Wall
19. Jabari Parker
20. Chris Bosh
21. OJ Mayo
22. Kyrie Irving
23. Dennis Smith
24. DeMarcus Cousins
25. Steve Francis

 

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