Looking back: 1st overall picks since 2000

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Who was the best 1st overall pick? Who was the worst out of these?
 
2000: Kenyon Martin (New Jersey)
2001: Kwame Brown (Washington)
2002: Yao Ming (Houston)
2003: Lebron James (Cleveland)
2004: Dwight Howard (Orlando)
2005: Andrew Bogut (Milwaukee)
2006: Andrea Bargnani (Toronto)
2007: Greg Oden (Portland)
2008: Derrick Rose (Chicago)
2009: Blake Griffin (LA)
2010: John Wall (Washington)
2011: Kyrie Irving (Cleveland)
2012: Anthony Davis (New Orleans)
2013: Anthony Bennett (Cleveland)
2014: Andrew Wiggins (Cleveland)
 
How would you rank the best 1st overall picks?
 

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bennett was the biggest bust on SPORTS history.
 

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It's crazy because if you go back and look at his scouting reports he was a scoring prodigy. And at only 19 years old he had the ability to become a force on both ends of the floor. It's fascinating how bad he ended up being really
 

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Papa Pugzo said:
bennett was the biggest bust on SPORTS history.
Ryan leaf is probably worse (yes I know he went 2nd). Maybe Russell too.

Bennett wasn't supposed to be #1 and even then it was known it was a weak draft
 

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CameronCrazy06 said:
Ryan leaf is probably worse (yes I know he went 2nd). Maybe Russell too.

Bennett wasn't supposed to be #1 and even then it was known it was a weak draft
 
Top 10 in that draft:
 
Victor Oladipo
Otto Porter
Cody Zeller
Alex Len
Nerlens Noel
Ben McLemore
Caldwell-Pope
Trey Burke
C.J. McCollum
 
Pretty lousy draft overall
 

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CameronCrazy06 said:
Ryan leaf is probably worse (yes I know he went 2nd). Maybe Russell too.

Bennett wasn't supposed to be #1 and even then it was known it was a weak draft
as weak as the draft was, he still shouldnt have went #1
 

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CameronCrazy06 said:
Ryan leaf is probably worse (yes I know he went 2nd). Maybe Russell too.

Bennett wasn't supposed to be #1 and even then it was known it was a weak draft
He wasn't "suppose" to go #1, but he had a lot of supporters. He was really good at UNLV, and it was not a stretch to consider him the best scorer in the draft (or the scorer with the most potential). Regardless, anyone could have gone #1 that year, because the draft was not top heavy. I saw different rationales for the Cavs to take Oladipo, Porter, Len, Noel, McLemore, and Bennett. There was very little separating any of them. Argument can be made that the top 4 or 5 players from that draft all went after pick #9.  
 
But yes, he was a terrible bust. 
 

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BrewCrewFan said:
 
Top 10 in that draft:
 
Victor Oladipo
Otto Porter
Cody Zeller
Alex Len
Nerlens Noel
Ben McLemore
Caldwell-Pope
Trey Burke
C.J. McCollum
 
Pretty lousy draft overall
I mean thats just the first 10 picks. Olynyk, Giannis, Gobert, Schroeder, and Steven Adams were also in this draft, and are better than some in that first 10.
 
Still incredibly weak
 

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Also to rank the picks:
 
15. Anthony Bennett
14. Greg Oden
13. Kwame Brown
12. Andrew Bogut
11. Kenyon Martin
10. Andrea Bargnani
09. Andrew Wiggins
08. Derrick Rose
07. Blake Griffin
06. Kyrie Irving
05. Dwight Howard
04. John Wall
03. Anthony Davis
02. Yao Ming
01. LeBron James
 

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bosoxlover12 said:
I mean thats just the first 10 picks. Olynyk, Giannis, Gobert, Schroeder, and Steven Adams were also in this draft, and are better than some in that first 10.
 
Still incredibly weak
Olynyk sucks dude
 

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He's an average big. Same tier as Adams and Len imo
 

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Difference is Olynyk is three years older than both, unable to play against anyone athletic, and has a much lower ceiling
 

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Olynyk is pretty bad... Len still has potential and has been getting better every year. Adams is proving his worth in this postseason and has been exceptional for the Thunder.
 

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#2 SG of all time #24 said:
Andrea Bargnani
 
He's pretty good but I wouldn't call him the best #1 pick since 2000
 

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yea buzzy, gotta let it go, Bargs just ain't better than LeBron. Can't believe we're having this argument again. 
 

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I mean, can we settle on 1a and 1b?
 

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