Kobe was arranged to be picked by the hornets and then traded to the Lakers. He only worked out with the Knicks and the Lakers during pre draft workouts due market size. Of course, LA was the better team at the time.
@@BallingandTalking Greatest Draft Class is without a doubt MJ's draft class. Give any starting 5 on any draft class and 84 is by far the greatest. Stockton, Alvin Robertson, MJ, Barkley and Olajuwon will smoke any draft class. Robertson is a two way player and he even average with 5 rpg and 5 apg in his career. He even average 3spg 5 times in his career. Offensively, the pick and roll to Stockton to Barkley/Olajuwon will be unstoppable and half court offense Olajuwon and MJ will dominate and good luck getting easy rebounds against Barkley and Olajuwon. Defensively, 4 out of these 5 players are greatest defensive players whether on ball or help defender. 96 is a lil deep draft class but a starting 5 of Nash, Iverson, Ray Allen, Kobe and Jermaine O neal will be dominated... remove Ray Allen and put a big and still Adbur Rahim, Walker, Camby or Ilgauskus can't stop Olajuwon.
@@dirt7763 Stockton is great but in order magic Steph Isiah Nash Oscar CP3 Westbrook Jason Kidd all are better and John is up there after Kidd. These guys all done more in certain time and achieved a lot skill and accomplishment wise as John has
Bro, Kobe, AI, Nash, Ray Allen, Peja, Ben Wallace, Jermaine O'Neal, Stephon Marbury, Antoine Walker, Abdul-Raheem, Marcus Camby and Todd Fuddler as well 😂🤣, very deep class
Nash's weakness of being too selective with shots is very true. He had the scoring arsenal to be leading the league in scoring, but chose to be a point god
@Optimus Prime Even Nash says that. He say's looking back, he should have been shooting the ball around 20 times a game. He could have been Steph, but it was a different era.
@@khaitranngoc4176 I think he had a great shot selection, but he should have shot more. Looking back at those Sun teams, he should havebeen the #1 scorer
Hands down the best draft ever!! 4 hall of famers and counting.. Jermaine O'Neal made 8 all star games , all NBA and they got him at the bottom of the 1st round
Top 3 arguably. 84 probably was the best draft class with the GOAT, an arguably top 10 all-time player in Hakeem plus top 20-30 players in Barkley, Stockton. Plus 3 defensive player of the year winners, 3 -MVPs, top2 all time steals leaders.
Antoine Walker woulda been so much better if he didnt get lazy n outa shape. He was just undisciplined. His first 5 years in the league he was killing it. Loved the Peirce/Walker combo. High lob and pick n roll as dam near unstoppable.
@@Paulafan5 The Sun's probably would've had a title anyways if it weren't for that BS suspension in the playoffs. Stoudemire's game worked better with Nash's than Malone's would have because he moved and reacted more which played to Nash's style. Even though Malone is a far superior player, crunch time was a big issue for him, and he would've screwed up the Sun's ball movement because he's so efficient in the post, the ball stops when he gets it. It would actually stifle Nashes game because he can do so much. Stockton was fine with just dumping the ball into Malone all day when there was no pick and roll option, then he would do the little things off ball like go set a screen for a shooter or something.
I remember watching this after playing an AAU game. The coaches and the team dads were watching it with us and my dad said that this class was the most loaded class top to bottom. He was right.
Well at this time they still played INSIDE the three point line, and there were MEN like Malone, Ewing, Barkley, Rodman etc in there waiting for little flys to swat. :)
@@zachmcdowell6445 exactly. I understand some shooting guards posted up back then, but by in large being a poor post up defender is a silly criticism for a guard. It’s like saying Shaq has trouble defending point guards.
They've never really seen a lot of smaller scoring guards in that era. A lot of people consider him an SG. Nowadays combo guards are expected and pure point guards are a rarity. Weird how times change.
i really got into the draft in 95. lost it just a few years later. But i would think that what if you made a team comprised of players in a draft. closest was Big 3 in Miami, with Wade, LeBron, and Bosh. But just imagine there was a team of Ray Allen, Steve Nash, and Shareef Abdur-Rahim? How well do you think a team of Ray Allen, Steve Nash, Shareef Abdur-Rahim, John Wallace, and Marcus Camby would have done in the late 90s early 00s???
Scouts' NBA comparisons consesus for each player: Iverson - Nate Archibald/Tim Hardaway Camby - Tree Rollins/Darryl Dawkins Abdur-Rahim - Kevin McHale Marbury - Kenny Anderson/Rod Strickland Ray - Mitch Richmond Walker - Magic Johnson/Cliff Robinson Wright - Jon Koncak Kittles - Dell Curry/Reggie Miller Samaki - Xavier McDaniel Dampier - Mark Eaton Fuller - Tom Heinsohn Potapenko - Frank Brickowski Kobe - Michael Jordan/World B Free Stojakovic - Toni Kukoc Nash - John Stockton/Mark Jackson Delk - Mario Elie Jermaine - Robert Parish Overall, a very rich and talented draft class with scouts comparisons heading into draft night being pretty accurate one way or another. Much better than some of the comparisons scouts make today.
Kobe taken at 13, Ben Wallace UNDRAFTED, yet has an argument for the Hall of Fame because of his defense. Nash, Peja AND Ray Allen. If 1996 do a small ball "Death" lineup against either 1984 or 2003, MAAAAANNNNN....
in his early years he play PF...but when he plays for Denver he has no choice but to play Center because kenyon Martin is in PF...also all slow PF turn C when they age,,,
Now your business. They were spot on. Stojakovic was drafted in 96 and came on in 99 because his Greec club Paok was asking huge fee so as some of his previous teams in Serbia. He wasnt on disposale for his team for full two years, so it is kind of weakness
The end of 90’s going into 2000’s era probably had the most talent honestly. There were great players at literally every position & good amount to have multiple entertaining position matchups.
i do honestly think that it depends on where you are drafted and situation that can either allow a player to flourish or be hindered. i think John Wallace could have been a solid NBA starting forward, but to be drafted by the NYK, and be behind Oakley, Mason, Smith, didnt help him. Of how great he did leading Syracuse to the National Championship game, i thought he was gonna be a top 12 pick. maybe if he was drafted there, he would have been allowed to play and could have flourished. 1996 was a great draft, but it also had talent that never developed like John Wallace. If you look at his stats, his 2nd season is with the Raptors, he got 28 mpg, he avgd 48% FG, 72% FT, 14 ppg, 4.5 rpg 1 apg, 1 spg, 1 bpg. Not too bad for just avg 12 shots/game. now why did his minutes fall after? probably bc Raptors had T-Mac and got Vince Carter in 98 draft.
Kobe fell because he announced before the draft he would ONLY play for the Lakers and told everyone else not to draft him. At 17 his ego was already so huge he felt bigger than the league. (Charlotte then traded him to LA for Vlade Divac. Good trade, huh? lol)
@@unleashed4690 I don't think he officially come out and said the Lakers, but he said that if he wasn't picked by the right team he would go to college for a year. Everyone who remembers watching it knew that he was trying to get on the Lakers though. No one ever talks about that now. They always talk about how Charlotte messed up, but he would have never gone to Charlotte.
@@unleashed4690 Ok, I wasn't 100% sure. I was young, but I was obsessed with the NBA. I remember they were dictating things behind the scenes, and that him amd the Lakers basically manipulated things to make sure they got him. I just wasn't for sure if he said that he would only go to the Lakers.
That shit is crazy. I'm assuming he wasn't a 1 on 1 defender. Most likely making reads and intercepting passes often. Like Steph when he led the league in steals
Draft class is nuts. Camby wasn't a superstar but he had a really good career. Abdur-rahim was real solid. Starbury was a star. Antoine Walker was productive and an all star for a bit. Lorenzo Wright was a serviceable player (RIP). Kerry Kittles was looking like a future star but was still a very solid player. Samaki Walker was not good. Dampier was solid and had a pretty long career. Todd Fuller sucked. Potapenko was a fine player. Pretty much no busts in this lottery and a bunch of stars and hall of famers
11:06 nash being too selective with shots actually delayed the 3pt revolution in nba. If he didnt have that during run n gun phx era, revolution would come earlier. Mike D'antoni and Nash still regret this
Dallas in the mid 90s. Constantly drafting big men that couldn't play, until Dirk. Even when they drafted three good players in a row, they couldn't keep them together.
The Raptors were robbed in the draft that year. They actually got the number 1 pick, but the NBA had a rule that said expansion teams couldn't have the first pick for the first three years of their existence.
@@josephgunn6070 according to scouts they believe their could be 8 future all-stars... Time will tell.. but it makes sense several teams are clearly tanking
Mainly all bust but i feel bad for the young bucks who wasn't around to see the #Hall of Famers that did come from this group, I'm talking #Top 10. #Iverson was just ridiculous at #Georgetown....
