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ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:00 PM
The San Antonio Spurs have never won an NBA championship without two #1 overall draft picks on the roster.
T-Pain
03-23-2006, 05:03 PM
the other is david, so that makes 3 #1 overall picks
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:04 PM
Yup.

We could have also gone after Kwame Brown or maybe Joe Smith.

Or if C-Webb had bothered to answer the phone in 2000, we'd still be set.

Seriously, though, if we could have managed to somehow sign Elton Brand . . . :bang :bang :bang
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:05 PM
the other is david, so that makes 3 #1 overall picks

Yeah, but we only had two at any one time.

Trivia question: name the only other #1 overall to play for the Spurs. (no looking it up, answer in 5 min)
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:07 PM
TD, DRob, GRob already mentioned. One more.
Trainwreck2100
03-23-2006, 05:07 PM
Wilkins?
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:08 PM
Nice guess, but no.
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:09 PM
All the old farts who would know are probably on their way home from work . . .
midgetonadonkey
03-23-2006, 05:10 PM
Vinny Del Negro
sprrs
03-23-2006, 05:10 PM
just a guess but Terry Cummings?
FromWayDowntown
03-23-2006, 05:10 PM
TD, DRob, GRob already mentioned. One more.

John Lucas played for AND coached the Spurs. And was a #1 overall pick.
Trainwreck2100
03-23-2006, 05:10 PM
Antoine Carr
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:12 PM
Time's up!

The answer is . . . .








Mychal Thompson.

Who, BTW, is the ONLY #1 overall pick to ever play for the Spurs and not win a ring with them. (Thompson won at least one with the Fakeuhs.)
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:12 PM
Shit. I forgot about Lucas. :flipoff

Okay, so he's the only one to never win a ring anywhere.
MrChug
03-23-2006, 05:15 PM
Hmmm....GOTTA be Uwe Blab. I'm sure of it....:lol
SilverPlayer
03-23-2006, 05:19 PM
Was Moses Malone a number one pick? If he was he also played for us one year.
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:23 PM
Malone was signed out of high school by the Utah Starts of the ABA. I don't think the NBA ever drafted him. The ABA draft was famously secretive (read: fixed), but I doubt Malone would have gone #1 overall.
SilverPlayer
03-23-2006, 05:29 PM
thanks for the info...wasn't sure about him.
FromWayDowntown
03-23-2006, 05:36 PM
Shit. I forgot about Lucas. :flipoff

:D
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 05:55 PM
FYI, below is a list of every #1 overall NBA draft pick. An asterisk next to their name means that at some point in their career they played on a team that won the championship. Two asterisks mean multiple championships.

-Only 18 have won championships.
-Only 7 of those 18 were the best player on their team when they won it (Duncan, O'Neal, Olajuwon, Johnson, Walton, Kareem, Hayes).
-Another 6 were important players (DRob, Worthy, Aguirre, Thompson, Russell, Robertson).
-Five were scrubs hanging on for the ride (GRob and four guys from the 60s/50s).



2005 Milwaukee Andrew Bogut Utah
2004 Orlando Dwight Howard High School
2003 Cleveland LeBron James High School
2002 Houston Yao Ming China
2001 Washington Kwame Brown High School
2000 New Jersey Kenyon Martin Cincinnati
1999 Chicago Elton Brand Duke
1998 LA Clippers M. Olowokandi Pacific
**1997 San Antonio Tim Duncan Wake Forest
1996 Philadelphia Allen Iverson Georgetown
1995 Golden State Joe Smith Maryland
*1994 Milwaukee Glenn Robinson Purdue
1993 Orlando Chris Webber Michigan
**1992 Orlando S. O'Neal LSU
1991 Charlotte Larry Johnson UNLV
1990 New Jersey Derrick Coleman Syracuse
1989 Sacramento Pervis Ellison Louisville
1988 LA Clippers Danny Manning Kansas
**1987 San Antonio David Robinson Navy
1986 Cleveland Brad Daugherty North Carolina
1985 New York Patrick Ewing Georgetown
**1984 Houston Akeem Olajuwon Houston
1983 Houston Ralph Sampson Virginia
**1982 LA Lakers James Worthy North Carolina
**1981 Dallas Mark Aguirre DePaul
1980 Golden State J. B. Carroll Purdue
**1979 LA Lakers Earvin Johnson Michigan State
**1978 Portland Mychal Thompson Minnesota
1977 Milwaukee Kent Benson Indiana
1976 Houston John Lucas Maryland
1975 Atlanta David Thompson North Carolina State
**1974 Portland Bill Walton UCLA
1973 Philadelphia Doug Collins Illinois State
1972 Portland LaRue Martin Loyola (Ill.)
1971 Cleveland Austin Carr Notre Dame
1970 Detroit Bob Lanier St. Bonaventure
**1969 Milwaukee Lew Alcindor UCLA
*1968 San Diego Elvin Hayes Houston
1967 Detroit Jimmy Walker Providence
*1966 New York Cazzie Russell Michigan
1965 San Francisco Fred Hetzel Davidson
*1964 New York Jim Barnes Texas Western
1963 New York Art Heyman Duke
1962 Chicago Bill McGill Utah
1961 Chicago Walt Bellamy Indiana
*1960 Cincinnati Oscar Robertson Cincinnati
1959 Cincinnati Bob Boozer Kansas State
1958 Minneapolis Elgin Baylor Seattle
1957 Cincinnati Rod Hundley West Virginia
*1956 Rochester Sihugo Green Duquesne
1955 Milwaukee Dick Ricketts Duquesne
*1954 Baltimore Frank Selvy Furman
1953 Philadelphia Ernie Beck Pennsylvania
1952 Milwaukee Mark Workman West Virginia
1951 Baltimore Gene Melchiorre Bradley
*1950 Boston Charlie Share Bowling Green
1949 Providence Howie Shannon Kansas State
1948 Providence Andy Tonkovich Marshall
1947 Pittsburgh Clifton Neeley Texas Western
mavsfan1000
03-23-2006, 06:33 PM
Olawakandi>Rasho
ChumpDumper
03-23-2006, 06:35 PM
Nah, Rasho would get some minutes in Boston.
Solid D
03-23-2006, 06:46 PM
If you want technicalities, Artis Gilmore was selected number one overall by the Chicago Bulls in the ABA Dispersal Draft.

:smokin
ShoogarBear
03-23-2006, 07:04 PM
If you want technicalities, Artis Gilmore was selected number one overall by the Chicago Bulls in the ABA Dispersal Draft.

:smokin

Where's Sequ when you need him?
Solid D
03-23-2006, 07:20 PM
Where's Sequ when you need him?

We need him?

jk
:smokin