{"id":797712,"date":"2026-07-13T14:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797712\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T14:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T14:33:11","slug":"the-best-nba-draft-pick-of-the-century-at-every-first-round-slot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/797712\/","title":{"rendered":"The Best NBA Draft Pick of the Century at Every First-Round Slot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">The Miami Heat were sitting pretty in the 2003 NBA draft. They knew one of LeBron James, Darko Mili\u010di\u0107, Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh or Dwyane Wade would fall to them. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Aside from the Detroit Pistons, who took Mili\u010di\u0107 at No. 2, every other team in the top five ended up with a Hall of Famer. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Wade had the second-best career of any 2003 draftee, finishing with eight All-NBA nods, three championships and one Finals MVP. He&#8217;s pretty safely on the list of the five greatest shooting guards of all time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"MuiTypography-root MuiTypography-bp_small__body__article__medium css-1vqr2el\">Kevin Garnett, Ray Allen and Vince Carter were all taken with the No. 5 overall pick in the 1990s, but Kevin Love, De&#8217;Aaron Fox, Trae Young and DeMarcus Cousins are D-Wade&#8217;s closest competition since the turn of the century. None of them even come close to topping him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami Heat were sitting pretty in the 2003 NBA draft. They knew one of LeBron James, Darko&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":797713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-797712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=797712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/797712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/797713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=797712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=797712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=797712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}