http://www.usatoday.com/sports/basketball/nba/2008-biggest-draft-busts.htm

Sam Bowie is of course #1 on the list

How about Art Heyman, a college star at Duke, picked #1 overall by the Knicks in th '63 draft and never did anything to speak of in the nba.

I think the point playa trying to make is 'Bowie was drafted over Michael Jordan. That was' pretty bad.

I wish they would stop washin up Sam Bowie. He wasn't the worst. He was actually a good player that just got messed up with the injuries. He was good.

Pervis Ellison? Yinka Dare? Come on now.....they were the worse. Kwame? Ed o'bannon?

Felton Spencer.

Roy Marble? Kenny "Sky" Walker?

Danilo Gallinari

The Big Cock

No. 1 SEED: MICHAEL OLOWOKANDI



By Robert Hanashiro, USA TODAY

Michael Olowokandi went No. 1 in the draft over several current NBA stars.

Selected: No. 1 by Los Angeles Clippers in 1998

Picked ahead of: Mike Bibby (2nd), Antawn Jamison (4th), Vince Carter (5th), Dirk Nowitzki (9th), Paul Pierce (10th).

Why he deserves the title: Came into the NBA with a ready-made nickname (The Kandi Man) after leading Pacific to an NCAA tournament berth in one of his three seasons at the school, but never rounded into the dominant big man the Clippers desperately needed. Adding to the monumental risk factor was the fact that Olowokandi had just taken up the game of basketball six years earlier.

Olowokandi's scoring average hit double figures in just two of his nine seasons, the sort of shoddy production that led the Clips to cut their losses and trade him to the Timberwolves in 2003. After a 16-game stop in Boston in 2006-07, the center's career tapered off with an 8.3 points-per-game average.

Early scouting reports poured on praise, but Olowokandi's story remains a cautionary tale in the pitfalls of overestimating the value of "draft stock."

No. 2 SEED: SAM BOWIE

Selected: No. 2 by Portland Trail Blazers in 1984

Picked ahead of: Michael Jordan (3rd), Sam Perkins (4th), Charles Barkley (5th), John Stockton (16th).

Why he deserves the title: Portland's selection of Bowie arguably rates as one of the biggest blunders in sports history, simply for the list of Hall of Famers that went later in the '84 draft.

Bowie, who came with warning signs after enduring knee problems at Kentucky, posted mediocre numbers (10.0 points per game, 8.6 rebounds per game) in his first full season, but the injury bug doomed his Blazers career. He played just 63 games over the next three years, leading to a change of scenery in a trade to the Nets.

Bowie shook the injuries to become a serviceable player in four seasons with New Jersey, but by the time Jordan began his flirtation with a baseball career, Bowie was done.

No. 3 SEED: DARKO MILICIC



By Julian H. Gonzalez, Detroit Free Press

Detroit fans are still waiting for Darko Milicic to check in.

Selected: No. 2 by Detroit Pistons in 2003

Picked ahead of: Carmelo Anthony (3rd), Chris Bosh (4th), Dwyane Wade (5th).

Why he deserves the title: Pistons fans hoping to see all the upside and promise that Milicic supposedly possessed never really got the chance. In his three ill-fated seasons in Detroit, the Serbian import played in just 96 games, starting only two.

Posted by EnySpree:

I wish they would stop washin up Sam Bowie. He wasn't the worst. He was actually a good player that just got messed up with the injuries. He was good.

Pervis Ellison? Yinka Dare? Come on now.....they were the worse. Kwame? Ed o'bannon?

No, no Eny. That's not the point either. Bowie was drafted over Michael Jordan!

BOWIE WAS DRAFTED OVER MICHAEL JORDAN!!! That's pretty bad. Bowie was a good player, but drafting him over Michael Jordan was a horrible move.

Darko might end up going down as the worst. There were a ton of all stars drafted behind him, and 3 top tier talents directly behind him.

has to be Sam Bowie when u consider who was taken after him in the draft.

i would put Kwame Brown right up there w/Kandi Man as honorable mentions for those same reasons.