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Hi! It's Seth, and you better get used to videos just like this one. Ryan and I are working on a lengthy piece about NBA draft history, and it keeps leading me on trivial side quests that won't make it into the final product. They absolutely WILL make it onto Patreon, though, because I need to tell the world (of subscribers) when I learn everything about a gigantic Argentinean man who didn't make it as an NBA player but parlayed his basketball tryout into a wrestling career. And an episode of Baywatch.

Hope you enjoy! More stuff like this (side quests and main quests) coming in 2026.

And sorry if that song gets stuck in your head. Happened to me, too.

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Mike HBC

OK, I was literally reading about him within the past couple of days, and for the life of me, I couldn't tell you why. Weeeeeeird.

Unending One

Did someone mention the yetay?

Fox Doucette

One thing I've always found fascinating about the draft is the weird jank that comes from trying to graph draft position and career Win Shares. I did a study on the subject (went back to 1977 in Basketball Reference) that established that if you're picking third (or sixth or 12th), you should probably just trade the pick. The most egregious example of the phenomenon is Len Bias, who was picked second overall and died on draft night, and the next guy picked in the 1986 Coke Is It! Draft, Chris Washburn, had fewer career Win Shares (as in his total was negative) than a dead guy. See also 2006, when Adam Morrison gave Washburn a run for his money as the worst third overall pick ever. Speaking of the third pick, the inverse of this is the '84 draft, when Portland took Sam Bowie overall, continuing a proud history of that team taking injury-prone centers over wing scorers that would come to a head in 2007. They didn't want to take a scorer in '84 because they already had Clyde Drexler, and Portland's loss was Chicago's (and history's) gain that became obvious in the '92 Finals.