All Charlotte Bobcats Draft Picks (2004-2013)

All Charlotte Bobcats Draft Picks (2004-2013)

2004- Emeka Okafor (2nd Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 12.3 PPG, 1.2 APG, 9.9 RPG, 0.6 SPG, 1 BPG,
5 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2005- Raymond Felton (5th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 13.5 PPG, 6.6 APG, 3.3 RPG, 1.4 SPG. 0.2 BPG
5 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2006- Adam Morrison (3rd Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 7.5 PPG, 1.4 APG, 2.1 RPG, 0.2 SPG, 0.1 BPG
2 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2006- Ryan Hollins (50th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 4 PPG, 0.3 APG, 2.3 RPG, 0.2 SPG, 0.5 BPG
3 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2007- Brandan Wright (8th Overall Pick)
Traded to Golden State Warriors for Jemareo Davidson (36th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 3.1 PPG, 0.3 APG, 1.8 RPG, 0.2 SPG, 0.3 BPG
1 Season with the Charlotte Bobcats

2008- D.J. Augustine (9th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 9.6 PPG, 4 APG, 1.8 RPG, 0.6 SPG, 0 BPG
4 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2008- Kyle Weaver (38th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 5 PPG, 1.6 APG, 2.2 RPG, 0.8 SPG, 0.4 BPG
Did not play any season with the Charlotte Bobcats

2009- Gerald Henderson (12th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 11.3 PPG, 1.8 APG, 3.1 RPG, 0.8 SPG, 0.4 BPG
4 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2009- Derrick Brown (40th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 5.2 PPG, 0.7 APG, 2.4 RPG, 0.5 SPG, 0.2 BPG
3 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2010- Gani Lawal (46th Overall Pick)
Traded to the Phoenix Suns

2011- Bismack Biyombo (7th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 5 PPG, 0.4 APG, 6.6 RPG, 0.3 SPG, 1.8 BPG
2 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2011- Kemba Walker (9th Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 15.2 PPG, 5.1 APG, 3.5 RPG, 1.5 SPG, 0.3 BPG
2 Seasons with the Charlotte Bobcats

2012- Michael Kidd-Gilchrist (2nd Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 9 PPG, 1.5 APG, 5.8 RPG, 0.7 SPG, 0.9 BPG
1 Season with the Charlotte Bobcats

2012- Jeffery Taylor (31st Overall Pick)
Career Stats: 6.1 PPG, 0.8 APG, 1.9 RPG, 0.6 SPG, 0.2 BPG
1 Season with the Charlotte Bobcats

2013- Cody Zeller (4th Overall Pick)
Has not played yet

Worst NBA Draft Picks From 2008-2012

Since I am only naming bad draft picks from 2008-2012, I may be wrong. These are young players who still have time to develop into exceptional NBA players. Also not all of the players on this list are necessarily bad, they were just picked instead of much better players.

10. Michael Beasley- Michael Beasley was drafted with the 2^nd pick of the first round in the 2008 NBA Draft. Michael Beasley is a good player who has been declining year by year. Last year he averaged 10.1 points per game, 1.5 assists a game, and 3.8 rebounds per game. His stats aren’t bad for someone who comes off the bench. But with the second overall pick in the draft you want to get a starter. There were a lot of good players in this draft, but not any necessarily better than Michael Beasley. I’ll list the players in this draft who are better than Michael Beasley. These players are O.J. Mayo, Russell Westbrook, Kevin Love, Danilo Gallinari, Brook Lopez, Roy Hibbert, J.J. Hickson, Ryan Anderson, Courtney Lee, George Hill, and Nikola Pekovic.

9. Wesley Johnson- Wesley Johnson was drafted with the 4^th pick of the first round in the 2010 NBA Draft. Wesley Johnson is a decent player. He has nights where he can hit threes, and he is a great defensive player. The only thing that makes this pick a bad one is that there was a lot of better picks the Timberwolves could have selected. Like I said Wesley Johnson isn’t a bad player. This past season he averaged 8 points a game and 2.5 rebounds a game. But there were better players still on the board when the Timberwolves got their pick. Some of these players were Greg Monroe, Paul George, Larry Sanders, Eric Bledsoe, Avery Bradley, Jordan Crawford, Landry Fields, and Lance Stephenson. 

8. D.J. Augustine- D.J. Augustine was drafted with the 9^th pick of the first round in the 2008 NBA Draft. D.J. Augustine is a decent back-up point guard who averaged 4.7 points per game, 2.2 assists per game, and 1.2 rebounds per game. Michael Jordan and the Bobcats have made a lot of bad draft picks. This is one where they could have done better. Instead of drafting D.J. Augustine, the Bobcats could have drafted Brook Lopez, Roy Hibbert, J.J. Hickson, Ryan Anderson, George Hill, and Nikola Pekovic.

7. Jonny Flynn- Jonny Flynn was drafted with the 6^th pick of the first round in the 2009 NBA Draft. Jonny Flynn had a good first year averaging 13.5 points a game and 4.4 assists. But since his rookie season he has declined. The last NBA season he played was the 2011-2012 season. That year he averaged 5.2 points per game and 3.8 assists. Some better players the Timberwolves could have drafted are Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, Brandon Jennings, Gerald Henderson, Jrue Holiday, Ty Lawson, Jeff Teague, DeJaun Blair, Chase Budinger, and Danny Green.

6. Kendall Marshall- Kendall Marshall was selected with the 13^th pick of the first round of the 2012 NBA Draft. The Suns drafted him thinking that he would be a good replacement for Steve Nash since Marshall had a pass first personality. He spent most of this past season playing in the D-League. Once he got his chance to play in the NBA he did well in some games. He had 13 assists in one game, and 14 in another. He averaged 3 points a game and 3 assists a game. So he had a few good games, but a lot of bad games. The Suns could have drafted better players like Tyler Zeller, Terrence Jones, Jared Sullinger, and Jae Crowder. At least this was only his first season, so he has time to improve.

5. Chris Singleton- Chris Singleton was drafted with the 18^th pick of the first round in the 2011 NBA Draft. Chris Singleton averaged 4.1 points a game last season and 3.2 rebounds a game. There were a lot of better draft picks available at this point in the draft. These picks were Tobias Harris, Kenneth Faried, MarShon Brooks, Jimmy Butler, and Chandler Parsons.

4. Xavier Henry- Xavier Henry was drafted with the 12^th pick of the first round in the 2010 NBA Draft. Xavier Henry averaged 3.9 points a game and 0.3 assists a game. Some better draft picks would have been Larry Sanders, Eric Bledsoe, Avery Bradley, Jordan Crawford, Landry Fields, and Lance Stephenson.

3. Cole Aldrich- Cole Aldrich was drafted with the 11^th pick of the first round in the 2010 NBA Draft. Cole Aldrich was an NCAA champion in 2008 with Kansas and was a great college basketball player. Like most draft busts, he looks good physically being 6’11” and 240 pounds. This past NBA season he averaged 3.3 points a game, and 4.2 rebounds. Better people that the Thunder could have drafted were Larry Sanders, Eric Bledsoe, Avery Bradley, Jordan Crawford, Landry Fields, and Lance Stephenson. 

2. Jan Vesley- Jan Vesley was drafted with the 4^th pick of the first round in the 2011 NBA Draft. He looked like a good player on paper being 6’11” and weighing 240 pounds, but Vesley was never able to produce. Vesley only averaged 2.5 points a game and 2.4 rebounds a game last season. The Wizards could have drafted better players like Kemba Walker, Klay Thompson, Kawhi Leonard, Nikola Vucevic, Tobias Harris, Kenneth Faried, MarShon Brooks, Jimmy Butler, and Chandler Parsons. What hurts the most about this draft pick? The fact that there were a ton of better players they could have drafted listed above.

1. Hasheem Thabeet- Hasheem Thabeet was drafted with the 2^nd pick of the first round in the 2009 NBA Draft. The only reason why he was drafted with the 2^nd pick was that he was 7’3” and 263 pounds. He is currently the tallest player in the NBA, but don’t let that fool you. The only thing he is good for  isblocking occasionally. Last season he averaged 2.4 points per game and 3 rebounds per game. There were A TON of good players the Grizzlies could have drafted beside HaSheem Thabeet. These players include James Harden, Tyreke Evans, Ricky Rubio, Stephen Curry, DeMar DeRozan, Brandon Jennings, Gerald Henderson, Jrue Holiday, Ty Lawson, Jeff Teague, DeJaun Blair, Chase Budinger, and Danny Green.