By his third year in the league, he was at 15.6 points per game, before scoring 18 points per game or more for the next three seasons. By just his second season in the league, he was averaging double-digits. Howard, who was a one-time all star, came in the league and made a difference immediately. Any of those three names would’ve been huge upgrades, but as Mavericks fans, let’s look at Howard. There is value to be found, you just have to choose correctly. The next three picks of that same draft? Kendrick Perkins, Leandro Barbosa and Josh Howard. Who is Ndudi Ebi you might be asking? Don’t worry, this isn’t the last time you’ll find yourself asking that question in this article. The 2003 draft is out first example of exactly why we’re doing this exercise. While he never scored more than 8.5 points per game for Philadelphia, he did improve in each of his first seven seasons in the league and was playing more than 30 minutes a game for a while. Salmons played 13 years in the league and scored as many as 18.3 points per game in the 2008-2009 season. John Salmons very well was the correct pick in the 2002 draft. One, exactly how random success from late round picks can be, but also how there is value to be found, if you happen to draft correctly. This exercise will hopefully give us insight on two things. We won’t be included second round picks who every team passed on and happened to pan out, we will only be including picks who actually were drafted in the first round of their respective draft.
While hindsight is 20/20 (as it should be, if your hindsight isn’t 20/20 you need to get that checked out) we will be keeping things as fair as possible. We will also be looking at who the team could have, or in most instances, should have taken with that pick. What we will be doing in this piece is looking back at each of the last 20 drafts and seeing who the 26th pick of the draft will be. While the draft as a whole is a crapshoot, the later picks of the first round can especially be so. Whether it be a team with a top pick, looking to hopefully add a generational star to their team, or a team drafting towards the back of the draft, hoping to add a serviceable role player, fans are starting to talk themselves into guys they hadn’t heard of two weeks ago.įor the Dallas Mavericks, their fans fall into the latter category, given the Mavericks have the 26th pick of the draft. The NBA Draft is just a few short weeks away and with fans of all but two teams now in offseason mode, the draft is a main focus for a number of the teams in the league.
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