Best Draft Class

I was looking at a Slam Magazine the other day and they were reviewing draft classes from years past. I then thought what is the best draft class in NBA history. I did some research and narrowed it down to three. The 1984, 1996, & 2003 draft classes. I think the best Draft Class is the 1996 Draft Class. It Featured Allen Iverson, Stephon Marbury, Ray Allen, Kobe Bryant, Steve Nash, Marcus Camby, and many many others. Second I think is the 2003 NBA Draft. It Featured LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Kirk Hinrich, Mo Williams, David West & Many more The 1984 Draft Class featured Michael Jordan, Hakeem Olajuwon, Sam Perkins, John Stockton, & Charles Barkley. Well Lets see some statistics now.

First he 1996 draft Class. One Third of this draft class was all-stars (Including undrafted Center Ben Wallace From Virgina Union.) Steve Nash, Allen Iverson, & Kobe Bryant have all won the League MVP. Ben Wallace, Kobe Bryant, Ray Allen, & Antoine Walker has all one Championships. Overall this draft class was the best. Alot of Star players came out of it. Just check the draft board.

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

2nd Round

First Round	Player	College
30. Houston	Othella Harrington	Georgetown
31. Philadelphia	Mark Hendrickson	Washington State
32. Philadelphia	Ryan Minor	Oklahoma
33. Milwaukee	Moochie Norris	West Florida
34. Dallas	Shawn Harvey	West Virginia St.
35. Seattle	Joseph Blair	Arizona
36. LA Clippers	Doron Sheffer	Connecticut
37. Denver	Jeff McInnis	North Carolina
38. Boston	Steve Hamer	Tennessee
39. Phoenix	Russ Millard	Iowa
40. Golden State	Marcus Mann	Miss. Valley St
41. Sacramento	Jason Sasser	Texas Tech
42. Houston	Randy Livingston	Louisiana State
43. Phoenix	Ben Davis	Arizona
44. Charlotte	Malik Rose	Drexel
45. Seattle	Joe Vogel	Colorado State
46. Portland	Marcus Brown	Murray State
47. Seattle	Ron Riley	Arizona State
48. Philadelphia	Jamie Feick	Michigan State
49. Orlando	Amal McCaskill	Marquette
50. Houston	Terrell Bell	Georgia
51. Vancouver	Chris Robinson Western	Kentucky
52. Indiana	Mark Pope	Kentucky
53. Milwaukee	Jeff Nordgaard	Wisc.-Green Bay
54. Utah	Shandon Anderson	Georgia
55. Washington	Ronnie Henderson	Louisiana State
56. Cleveland	Reggie Geary	Arizona
57. Seattle	Drew Barry	Georgia Tech
58. Dallas	Darnell Robinson	Arkansas

The Next Draft class i think is the 2003 draft class. The 2003 draft is alot of the NBA today. Eight players from this draft has made it to the all star game (LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwayne Wade, Chris Kaman, Josh Howard, David West, & Mo Williams.) Dwayne Wade & Kendrick Perkins headline players that have won championships (Jason Kapono, Darko Milicic, Matt Bonner, & Luke Walton Being the others.) Most of the players are now star players in the NBA. This draft class is the second best in my eyes and def the best of the all-time.

NO.	TEAM	SELECTION
1.	Cleveland Cavaliers	LeBron James, F, St. Vincent-St. Mary's HS
2.	Detroit Pistons (from Memphis)	Darko Milicic, F/C, Serbia and Montenegro
3.	Denver Nuggets	Carmelo Anthony, F, Syracuse
4.	Toronto Raptors	Chris Bosh, F, Georgia Tech
5.	Miami Heat	Dwyane Wade, G, Marquette
6.	Los Angeles Clippers	Chris Kaman, C, Central Michigan
7.	Chicago Bulls	Kirk Hinrich, G, Kansas
8.	Milwaukee Bucks (from Atlanta)	T.J. Ford, G, Texas
9.	New York Knicks	Mike Sweetney, F, Georgetown
10.	Washington Wizards	Jarvis Hayes, G/F, Georgia
11.	Golden State Warriors	Mickael Pietrus, G/F, France
12.	Seattle Sonics	Nick Collison, F, Kansas
13.	Memphis Grizzlies (from Houston)	Marcus Banks, G, UNLV (traded to Boston)
14.	Seattle Sonics (from Milwaukee)	Luke Ridnour, G, Oregon
15.	Orlando Magic	Reece Gaines, G, Louisville
16.	Boston Celtics	Troy Bell, G, Boston College (traded to Memphis)
17.	Phoenix Suns	Zarko Cabarkapa, F/C, Serbia and Montenegro
18.	New Orleans Hornets	David West, F, Xavier
19.	Utah Jazz	Aleksandar Pavlovic, F, Serbia and Montenegro
20.	Boston Celtics (from Philadelphia)	Dahntay Jones, G/F, Duke (traded to Memphis)
21.	Atlanta Hawks (from Indiana)	Boris Diaw-Riffiod, G/F, France
22.	New Jersey Nets	Zoran Planinic, G/F, Croatia
23.	Portland Trail Blazers	Travis Outlaw, F, Starkville HS
24.	Los Angeles Lakers	Brian Cook, F, Illinois
25.	Detroit Pistons	Carlos Delfino, G/F, Italy
26.	Minnesota Timberwolves	Ndudi Ebi, F, Westbury Christian HS
27.	Memphis Grizzlies (from Sacramento via Orlando)	Kendrick Perkins, C, Clifton J. Ozen HS(traded to Boston)
28.	San Antonio Spurs	Leandrinho Barbosa, G, Brazil (traded to Phoenix)
29.	Dallas Mavericks	Josh Howard, F, Wake Forest

ROUND 2

NO.	TEAM	SELECTION
30.	New York Knicks (from Denver)	Maciej Lampe, F, Spain
31.	Cleveland Cavaliers	Jason Kapono , F, UCLA
32.	Los Angeles Lakers (from Toronto)	Luke Walton, F, Arizona
33.	Miami Heat	Jerome Beasley, F, North Dakota
34.	Los Angeles Clippers	Sofoklis Schortsanitis, F/C, Greece
35.	Milwaukee Bucks (from Memphis)	Szymon Szewczyk , F, Poland
36.	Chicago Bulls	Mario Austin , F, Mississippi State
37.	Atlanta Hawks	Travis Hansen, G/F, Brigham Young
38.	Washington Wizards	Steve Blake, G, Maryland
39.	New York Knicks	Slavko Vranes, C, Serbia & Montenegro
40.	Golden State Warriors	Derrick Zimmerman, G, Mississippi State
41.	Seattle Sonics	Willie Green, G, Detroit Mercy (traded to Philadelphia)
42.	Orlando Magic	Zaur Pachulia , F/C, Turkey
43.	Milwaukee Bucks	Keith Bogans, G, Kentucky (traded to Orlando)
44.	Houston Rockets	Malick Badiane, F/C, Langen
45.	Chicago Bulls (from Phoenix)	Matt Bonner , F, Florida (traded to Toronto)
46.	Denver Nuggets (from Boston)	Sani Becirovic, G, Virtus Bologna
47.	Utah Jazz	Maurice Williams , G, Alabama
48.	New Orleans Hornets	James Lang , C, Central Park Christian School
49.	Indiana Pacers	James Jones , F, Miami
50.	Philadelphia 76ers	Paccelis Morlende, G, France (traded to Seattle)
51.	New Jersey Nets	Kyle Korver , F, Creighton (traded to Philadelphia)
52.	Toronto Raptors (from L.A. Lakers)	Remon Van de Hare, C, Spain
53.	Chicago Bulls (from Detroit via Miami)	Tommy Smith, F, Arizona State
54.	Portland Trail Blazers	Nedzad Sinanovic, C, Bosnia
55.	Minnesota Timberwolves	Rick Rickert , F, Minnesota
56.	Boston Celtics (from Sacramento)	Brandon Hunter, F, Ohio
57.	Dallas Mavericks	Xue Yuyang, F, China (traded to Denver)
58.	Detroit Pistons (from San Antonio)	Andreas Glyniadakis, C, Greece

Well For the 1984 I don't really have much words for them. This class produce the greatest basketball player of all-time (Michael Jordan.) It has also produce hall of famers such as Charles Barkely, John Stockon, Hakeem Olajuwon & Michael Jordan of course. This draft was good but not the best of all time. I think because of a weak 1st round.

NO.	PLAYER, SCHOOL/COUNTRY	TEAM
1.	Akeem Olajuwon, Houston	Houston
2.	Sam Bowie, Kentucky	Portland
3.	Michael Jordan, North Carolina	Chicago
4.	Sam Perkins, North Carolina	Dallas
5.	Charles Barkley, Auburn	Philadelphia
6.	Mel Turpin, Kentucky	Washington (1)
7.	Alvin Robertson, Arkansas	San Antonio
8.	Lancaster Gordon, Louisville	L.A. Clippers
9.	Otis Thorpe, Providence	Kansas City
10.	Leon Wood, Cal State-Fullerton	Philadelphia
11.	Kevin Willis, Michigan State	Atlanta
12.	Tim McCormick, Michigan	Cleveland (1)
13.	Jay Humphries, Colorado	Phoenix
14.	Michael Cage, San Diego State	L.A. Clippers
15.	Terence Stansbury, Temple	Dallas
16.	John Stockton, Gonzaga	Utah
17.	Jeff Turner, Vanderbilt	New Jersey
18.	Vern Fleming, Georgia	Indiana
19.	Bernard Thompson, Fresno State	Portland
20.	Tony Campbell, Ohio State	Detroit
21.	Kenny Fields, UCLA	Milwaukee
22.	Tom Sewell, Lamar	Philadelphia (2)
23.	Earl Jones, District of Columbia	L.A. Lakers
24.	Michael Young, Houston	Boston

1984 Draft Class : - 7 players that made a all-star team
- 8 Rings
- 4 Hall Of Fame Players
- 3 NBA MVPs

1996 Draft Class: - 11 Players that made a all-star team
- 13 Rings
- 4 NBA MVPs

2003 Draft Class: - 8 Players that made a all-star team
- 5 Rings
- 2 NBA MVPs