Looking back: 1st overall picks since 2000

[Me7o]

LeBron = Worst
Bennett = Best

 

[Paulius]

LeBron = Worst
Bennett = Best

Tru

 

[Boogie]

1. LeBron James (Cleveland)
2. Yao Ming (Houston)
3. Anthony Davis (New Orleans)
4. Blake Griffin (LA)
5. John Wall (Washington)
6. Kyrie Irving (Cleveland)
7. Andrew Wiggins (Cleveland)
8. Kenyon Martin (New Jersey)
9. Dwight Howard (Orlando)
10. Andrew Bogut (Milwaukee)
11. Derrick Rose (Chicago)
12. Andrea Bargnani (Toronto)
13. Kwame Brown (Washington)
14. Greg Oden (Portland)
15. Anthony Bennett (Cleveland)

 

[Hurricane Season]

Rose at 11 baffles me.

 

[elcheato]

He's no Kenyon Martin 

 

[CameronCrazy06]

Rose and Dwight are way too low

 

[Stray32]

The fact that Andrea Bargnani is only 12 speaks to how bad some #1 picks have been, fwiw I wouldn't have Oden that low if only because he really really made sense at the time and just had lots of injury issues which is different than selecting somebody who just isn't that good (Bennett/Kwame)

 

[Senators26]

To be fair to Bennett the pick made zero sense. You could argue a handful of guys could have went 1st that year, and he wasn't one of them.