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Pick Team Selection Our choice
Skinny
San Antonio
Tim Duncan
Tim Duncan Safe to say that if the Spurs could do it all over again, they'd pick the three-time Finals MVP again and not think twice about it.
Philadelphia
Keith Van Horn
Tracy McGrady Isiah Thomas has taken a lot of heat for some of his other moves, but this one was brilliant. As GM of the Raptors, Isiah made McGrady the ninth overall pick – behind guys like Tony Battie and Adonal Foyle – and T-Mac turned into one of the game's premier scorers.
Boston
Chauncey Billups
Chauncey Billups The Celtics were wise to take Billups with the third overall pick but didn't have the patience to see it through. Billups would later join the Pistons and become the most anonymous Finals MVP in league history.
Vancouver
(Memphis)
Antonio Daniels
Keith Van Horn This draft starts nosediving after the top three players. Van Horn is easily No. 4, even though he never quite lived up to his billing coming out of Utah, because he's the only other player from this draft who could score in the 20s.
Denver
Tony Battie
Derek Anderson Knee injuries have basically destroyed his career, but he averaged double figures in his first seven seasons and played solid D to boot.
Boston
Ron Mercer
Bobby Jackson Jackson's career got off to a slow start in Minnesota, but he's become one of the league's best sixth men in Sacramento. Amazingly, he's never won the Sixth Man Award.
New Jersey
Tim Thomas
Brevin Knight The Cavs rebuilt their team in this draft by taking Anderson 13th and Knight 16th. While Knight has bounced around in recent years, he's had an extremely effective career for a 5-10 guard with no jump shot.
Golden State
Adonal Foyle
Danny Fortson And now we really start scraping the barrel. Fortson averaged a double-double twice and might be the best rebounder of the past decade, but his other contributions have been minimal.
Toronto
Tracy McGrady
Antonio Daniels The Grizzlies took Daniels with the No. 4 overall pick and quickly regretted it: A year later he was traded to San Antonio. His career seemed stalled but blossomed when he went to Seattle two years ago.
Milwaukee
Danny Fortson
Stephen Jackson A second-round pick of the Suns, Jackson played in just about every godforsaken town in North America before eventually sticking with the Spurs three years ago. If he has a couple more seasons like the last two, he should move up a few spots.
Sacramento
Tariq Abdul-Wahad
Tim Thomas Traded twice for Van Horn but hasn't been nearly as good a player. He's managed to score double figures in all but one season, but that 4.0 career rebound average is embarrassing for a 6-10 forward.
Indiana
Austin Croshere
Kelvin Cato The Mavs drafted Cato at No. 15 and immediately traded him to Portland for Chris Anstey. Oops. After Duncan, Cato is the best defender from this draft class.
Cleveland
Derek Anderson
Austin Croshere Croshere has done nothing terribly exceptional in his career, but nobody rated below him has either, and somebody has to be No. 13 on this list. Though he's never been a starter, Croshere did have a huge year off the bench for the Pacers' 2000 finalists.
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