I’m a fairly new NBA fan so obviously I didn’t follow the league when these guys got drafted. But I’ve done reading up on it and Anthony Bennett, Greg Oden, and Darko Milicic are the three that probably come most readily to mind when I think about this question.
My question is who are some of the sneaky draft busts? The guys you consider huge busts that don’t really get talked about as much when this question comes up. I’d love to hear about some of those guys and learn some more about NBA history.
We have to consider Jabari Parker a bust, right?
I think we can put Jay Williams on the list too. I’m mostly not counting injury situations, but Williams was looking like a bust that first year beforehand. The injury kinda let him off the hook.
And while I wouldn’t call Chris Washburn “sneaky”, it does feel like he gets forgotten about more often as the NBA fan base gets younger and further removed from the 80’s.