Ranking the top franchise-altering draft picks in NBA history

Oddball w/ Amin Elhassan & Izzy Gutierrez

Meadowlark Media

Basketball, Comedy, Sports

2.4 • 654 Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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The NBA season is over, but Amin and Charlotte are just getting started. We're bringing you our list of the top 10 franchise-altering draft picks in NBA history that shocked the world. Guys like Isiah Thomas, Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, and even the great Michael Jordan came into the league and made significant changes shortly after their arrival. It all started when they were rookies, creating the NBA we know and love today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello, friends.
0:10.0	Oddball is presented by Draft Kings.
0:12.0	Stay tuned because you will learn more about Draft Kings pick six and all it has to offer throughout the show Draft Kings.
0:18.0	The Crown is yours.
0:20.0	Hell yeah. I mean, it's Draft Week. Yes, it is. It's Draft Kings, the crown is yours. Hell yeah.
0:22.4	I mean, it's draft week.
0:23.0	Yes, it is.
0:26.9	It's draft week, which we are famously experts about.
0:28.1	Know so much about it.
0:28.9	We know so much.
0:29.5	All the players.
0:32.9	All the players, every stat, where they're from.
0:34.2	What a team needs?
0:35.1	What best fit?
0:39.7	Like, look, everyone else is like, oh, I've got like my draft board, whatever.
0:41.5	It's nothing like the oddball draft board. Yeah, no, the oddball draft board is just French because I hear there's a lot of it.
0:46.4	Well, I mean, it's two years in a row now.
0:48.2	Yeah, I know, right?
0:49.0	It's like, what?
0:49.8	Anyway, we're going to do something a little different today. We are going to look back at the top 10 most franchise altering draft picks in NBA history.
1:00.2	We have each come with our own list.
1:03.6	And we're defining franchise altering as...
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