Welcome to Edge of Sports, the podcast, brought to you by The Nation magazine.

I'm Dave Ziron.

This week we are going back to the Basketball Butterfly Effect series, because I know you Ziron. This week we are going back to the basketball butterfly effect series, because I know you love it with Hoops Savant, Ariya Shirazi.

Now, basketball butterfly effect for all y'all first time listeners is when we look at draft decisions and game out how the NBA world as we know it would have been dramatically altered if a critical

decision had gone in another direction.

Just say one example.

The 2003 draft, we asked what the world would have been like if the Pistons had taken

Carmelo Anthony with the number two pick instead of Darko Milichick.

This week, we are going to look at the 2009 draft.

So we can discuss whether one transcendent player can actually overcome the franchise stinkability of the New York Knicks.

So before I bring on ARIA, just a quick reminder about the 2009 draft.

I want to remind folks that the top 10 was like a point combo guard of paloosa

onto the basketball world.

Look at this talent that came in three through seven. You have number

three, James Hardin. Number four pick, the person who run the rookie of the year that year,

but frankly shouldn't have, Tyreek Evans. Number five pick, Ricky Rubio for the T-Wolves.

And then number six, in a curious move,

Johnny Flynn, a Syracuse legend, also to the T-Wolves.

And then at number seven, to the Golden State Warriors,

Wardell, Stefan Curry, the most important and consequential basketball player of the last decade.

And I include LeBron in that.

I mean, LeBron wins best career, but the last decade is Steff's and Steffs alone.

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