Now, it's incumbent upon Embiid, teamed up with Harden, to take the Sixers to the next level and make a deep playoff run to the NBA Finals.ĬHRIS WASHBURN, Golden State Warriors, 1986 In 2021-22, Embiid won his first scoring title. Embiid has made the All Star team five straight times, and has found himself firmly in the league MVP conversation in each of the last two seasons. Since that trade Harden has made ten straight All Star games, garnered first team All NBA honors six times, and won the MVP in 2018.Īfter missing the entirety of his first two seasons after being drafted in 2014, Embiid has turned into arguably the best big man of this era. Harden spent his three seasons in OKC coming off the bench as one of the league's top reserves, but it was a trade to Houston in October 2012 that unleashed one of the greatest scorers in the history of the game. Harden was drafted in 2009, as the third key piece of a young core which included Kevin Durant (second overall pick in 2007) and Russell Westbrook (fourth overall pick in 2008). JAMES HARDEN, Oklahoma City Thunder, 2009
Nearly 20 years later, Anthony is still active and getting buckets for the Portland Trail Blazers after a prime era which saw him make the All Star Game ten times, and a career in which he has made almost $265 million. Anthony was the third overall pick, fresh off a national championship in his one season at Syracuse.
Whereas the top of that draft was largely just Gasol with a slew of busts and enigmas, the 2003 draft saw a top five that will end up with four Hall of Famers - LeBron James, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade, and Anthony. The 2003 was the antithesis of the 2001 draft. Gasol ended up averaging 17 points per game over 18 NBA seasons, all while clocking over $225 million in earnings. While Chandler carved out a nice career for a couple decades, Gasol wound up becoming an All Star in Memphis, and then saw his career vault to the next level as the Robin to Kobe Bryant's Batman on the two Laker title teams in 20.
In 2001, the first four picks were all either straight out of high school - Kwame Brown, Tyson Chandler, Eddy Curry - or drafted from overseas, which was the case with Gasol. So let's look back at the history of the draft, and we will use the greatest third overall pick of all time, Michael Jordan in 1984 as the starting point. Since 1984, here are the four best and four worst third overall selections in the NBA Draft: If we were to find the gold standard in each of those categories, there are plenty fo reasons for hope and fear. Like any draft slot, the third overall pick has its history of franchise saving this and massive misses. The Houston Texans finally kickstarted their rebuild with the trade of Deshaun Watson and what appears to be a stellar draft back in April, and now here come the Houston Rockets and tonight's NBA Draft.Īfter a 2021 draft that saw the Rockets bring in four new young players drafted in the first round, headlined by second overall pick Jalen Green, the team head into tonight slated to add three more first round selections, with the headliner for this draft class being the third overall pick, widely expected to end up being Duke forward Paolo Banchero. If there is a theme in Houston sports for the year 2022, the Astros' collective greatness notwithstanding, it is the Year of the Rebuild.
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