Worst NBA Draft Runs Of All-Time

The Valenti Show

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🗓️ 24 June 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Mike has a list of a few NBA teams and the awful draft selections they consistently made over a multiple-year span.

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0:00.0	Thank you, Douglas.
0:01.5	All right, NBA draft tomorrow night.
0:03.9	Pistons don't have a pick, but I wanted to just show you.
0:07.9	We get to delight, now that the Pistons are actually decent,
0:11.0	we can delight in others' misfortune.
0:13.6	I want to present to you the four all-time horrific draft vortexes in NBA draft history.
0:23.3	Four teams runs of eight to ten years simply drafting the Walter Sleepy Sharps of the world.
0:32.1	David, a little music, please.
0:35.7	All right.
0:36.5	Now, the four teams, I'm going to give you a hint. You guess the teams. Then I'm going to give you the years. And I want to see if you can fill in some of the bums they drafted. I mean, when I tell you it's bad, this is bad. One of them should be pretty damn familiar.
0:53.5	Just hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Okay. I thought we pretty damn familiar. Just hold on.
0:55.6	Hold on.
0:56.4	Okay.
0:56.8	I thought we got to pick.
0:57.7	This guy's all boned up over here.
0:59.5	Hold on.
1:00.2	One of them you're mighty familiar with.
1:03.6	Another one is a RICO beard out of town familiarity.
1:09.6	Another is a punchline I always use.
1:12.2	Regardless of sports, I use this team to describe absolute futility.
1:16.5	And the other one has had one of the greatest falls from graces in the last two years of any team in the league.
1:23.2	Those are your four teams.
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