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LakerFan4Lyfe
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| I cant remember and my sources have suddenly become very unreliable? can someone please remind me.... it was the 96 season |
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PassiontoWin
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1996 NBA Draft
-1st Round-
First Round Player College
1. Philadelphia Allen Iverson Georgetown
2. Toronto Marcus Camby Massachusetts
3. Vancouver Shareef Abdur-Rahim California
4. Milwaukee (a) Stephon Marbury Georgia Tech
5. Minnesota (a) Ray Allen Connecticut
6. Boston (from Dallas) Antoine Walker Kentucky
7. LA Clippers Lorenzen Wright Memphis
8. New Jersey Kerry Kittles Villanova
9. Dallas (from Boston) Samaki Walker Louisvile
10. Indiana (from Denver) Erick Dampier Mississippi State
11. Golden State Todd Fuller North Carolina State
12. Cleveland (from Wash.) Vitaly Potapenko Wright State
13. Charlotte Kobe Bryant Lower Merion HS
14. Sacramento Predrag Stojakovic PAOK (Greece)
15. Phoenix Steve Nash Santa Clara
16. Charlotte (from Miami) Tony Delk Kentucky
17. Portland Jermaine O'Neal Eau Claire HS
18. New York (from Detroit) John Wallace Syracuse
19. New York (from Atlanta) Walter McCarty Kentucky
20. Cleveland Zydrunas Ilgauskas Lithuania
21. New York Dontae Jones Mississippi State
22. Vancouver (from Houston) Roy Rogers Alabama
23. Denver (from Indiana) Efthimis Rentzias PAOK
24. LA Lakers Derek Fisher Arkansas-Little Rock
25. Utah (b) Martin Muursepp BC Kalev Tallinn
26. Detroit (from San Antonio) Jerome Williams Georgetown
27. Orlando Brian Evans Indiana
28. Atlanta (from Seattle) Priest Lauderdale Peristeri (Greece)
29. Chicago Travis Knight Connecticut |
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LakerFan4Lyfe
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 9:34 pm Post subject: |
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| wow 96 is a decent group of players |
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magic_bryant
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| LakerFan4Lyfe wrote: | | wow 96 is a decent group of players |
Best draft class ever.
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Samaki Walker was drafted before Kobe?!?!?!?!!!  |
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Zhengi
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The best pick of that class was Samaki Walker at 9.
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| Picking some of the guys ahead of Kobe back then looks absurd now but for a kid graduating from HS, that was pretty high. The HS craze had not fully kicked in and especially not for a wing player. |
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Exick
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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Interestingly (or maybe not) the top 4 picks plus 'Toine at 6 were the All-Rookie First Team that year. Kobe was 2nd Team. And 4 Lakers in that draft as well.
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In the future you can just go to this link for any questions about NBA History.
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:15 pm Post subject: |
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| magic_bryant wrote: | | LakerFan4Lyfe wrote: | | wow 96 is a decent group of players |
Best draft class ever. |
1984 wasn't bad...
1. Akeem Olajuwan
2. Sam Bowie (lolz)
3. Michael Jordan
4. Sam Perkins
5. Charles Barkley
Otis Thorpe, Kevin Willis, Michael Cage, Jerome Kersey, and some guy named John Stockton in there as well. 4 Hall of Famers in one year? Not too shabby.
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ishi331
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LoL. If you think about it, Kobe could have been playing for the New Orleans Hornets last night.  |
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Whoa. Kobe and Jermain were both HS recriuts in '96. What about a Bryant and O'Neal duo, Part Deux? 
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 10:26 pm Post subject: |
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| What ever happened to Kittles? |
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| ah man I forgot about John Wallace, he was tight that year in the NCAA tourney for St. Johns I think |
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Michlake
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wow, I didn't know the 96 class was this strong
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WestCCa
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| vvbandit wrote: | | ah man I forgot about John Wallace, he was tight that year in the NCAA tourney for St. Johns I think |
I'm pretty sure that Wallace played for Syracuse.
But you're right, he was awesome in college |
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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| Ozendorph wrote: | | magic_bryant wrote: | | LakerFan4Lyfe wrote: | | wow 96 is a decent group of players |
Best draft class ever. |
1984 wasn't bad...
1. Akeem Olajuwan
2. Sam Bowie (lolz)
3. Michael Jordan
4. Sam Perkins
5. Charles Barkley
Otis Thorpe, Kevin Willis, Michael Cage, Jerome Kersey, and some guy named John Stockton in there as well. 4 Hall of Famers in one year? Not too shabby. |
I think that's the best draft class. Stud bigmen as well. I think every one of those guys but Bowie saw the Finals.
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lakers0505
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| Posted: Thu Mar 09, 2006 11:32 pm Post subject: |
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| magic_bryant wrote: | | LakerFan4Lyfe wrote: | | wow 96 is a decent group of players |
Best draft class ever. |
same thoughts here, couldnt falt really any of the top draft picks |
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| Mike@LG wrote: | | I think that's the best draft class. Stud bigmen as well. I think every one of those guys but Bowie saw the Finals. |
Is there any reason Bowie was picked over Jordan? wow talk about the Blazers laying a bomb big time, till this day there haunted through that draft and the Choke job in G7 in 2000. |
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| DaggerInTheHeart wrote: | | Mike@LG wrote: | | I think that's the best draft class. Stud bigmen as well. I think every one of those guys but Bowie saw the Finals. |
Is there any reason Bowie was picked over Jordan? wow talk about the Blazers laying a bomb big time, till this day there haunted through that draft and the Choke job in G7 in 2000. |
Yup. The philosophy in the 80s was that you needed a bigman to win championships. Moses Malone. Kareem. Jack Sikma. Robert Parish. Bill Walton.
2nd of all, that was the first time they drafted out of position. They had Drexler already and were getting duplicate elite talents in MJ and Drexler.
Except for that 1 mistake, that coaching staff was among the best at drafting. All other times they drafted best player available, regardless of position.
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Best class ever ??
Check the draft of '03.
LEBRON
WADE
MELO
BOSH
KAMAN
HINRICH
TJ FORD
BORIS DIAW
RINDOUR
DAVID WEST
BARBOSA
JOSH HOWARD
KYLE KORVER |
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lakers0505
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| P X wrote: | Best class ever ??
Check the draft of '03.
LEBRON
WADE
MELO
BOSH
KAMAN
HINRICH
TJ FORD
BORIS DIAW
RINDOUR
DAVID WEST
BARBOSA
JOSH HOWARD
KYLE KORVER |
That is going to turn out too be the best one day. I count 4 Superstars, 9 All Stars. |
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Michlake
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| lakers0505 wrote: | | P X wrote: | Best class ever ??
Check the draft of '03.
LEBRON
WADE
MELO
BOSH
KAMAN
HINRICH
TJ FORD
BORIS DIAW
RINDOUR
DAVID WEST
BARBOSA
JOSH HOWARD
KYLE KORVER |
That is going to turn out too be the best one day. I count 4 Superstars, 9 All Stars. |
It is a good class, I wouldn't call it great.(We will see in time)
I count 3 superstars( Wade, Lebron, Bosh) and 4 all stars(Melo, Ford, Howard, Diaw). |
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Hinrich is a stud, i give him 2 more years to be an elite PG, and an all-star for many, many years.
He's for real.
Melo is a super star. |
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