What Happened To The 2001 NBA Draft? (Top 10)

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7 ай бұрын

Some 2001 NBA Draft picks would go on to have great careers, while others are either too injury prone or just plain stink and are forced to retire early. Today we go over what exactly happened to the top 10 picks from the 2001 NBA Draft. We cover how their basketball careers went along with where they are today.

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@TheHuskyK9 6 ай бұрын

From Kwame's perspective, imagine coming straight out of high school to play with the pros, that's already a lot of pressure. Now add the fact that your childhood hero Michael Jordan is verbally roasting your butt in practice and in games. I don't care how confident you are, that would would kill anyone's confidence in a snap. Which then sucks more because later on it made him look soft in Kobe's eyes and we all know he didn't tolerate that.

@majorbob7211 5 ай бұрын

He was not competitive by nature at the end of the day, Steve Kerr got the same treatment but continued to be consistent

@tomc8115 5 ай бұрын

Lived in Memphis when Pau and Shane were drafted. Proud of both of them. They were stars on the court, and are still credits to the game in retirement.

@jasonallen3678 6 ай бұрын

Pau Gasol is underrated to me for some reason, even though he does receive a nice amount of recognition as a star..

@imfinishedgrinding638 6 ай бұрын

Even after all these years Kwame doesn't seem to have any animosity towards Jordan despite what he went through with him in his Wizard years. Still considers him as the Goat and I respect that. What Jordan did was inexcusable though.

@baradureye2170 6 ай бұрын

Nah freakin Paxon and Kerr could mesh with jordan but kwame couldnt? 😂 Their personalities just didnt mesh simple as that, imagine if it was KG than that would be a match made in heaven.

@deecee2174 6 ай бұрын

@@baradureye2170KG learning from MJ would have made him even more dominant

@user-lk5yh3ym3r 6 ай бұрын

I mean he can't say anything bout Jordan despite how he treated him

@GrumpyCat-mw5xl 6 ай бұрын

I was the defendant in a trial. When I took the stand and the plaintiffs lawyer was questioning me i wasn’t doing very well. At lunch my lawyer tore me a new asshole. After lunch when I took the stand again I did much better my lawyer said I did great. I ended up winning my end of the lawsuit. To this day it hurt what my lawyer said to me but I don’t care because we won and that’s all that matters.

@azrielnguyen9586 6 ай бұрын

@@baradureye2170 Curious as to your reasoning to select two small white PGs with defined supporting role to compare with 7 ft high school #1 pick?

@IHateMaL 6 ай бұрын

The amount of work you must put in these videos. Hella respect. Great content king 🔥🫡

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Thank you🤝 hoping it pays off!

@tylergates7455 6 ай бұрын

Helping me get through these wait times at Universal with your great content. Keep it up

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Hope you are having a good time sir🤝

@Mattitude23 6 ай бұрын

Just wanted to drop a line to say how much i enjoyed watching your video. Very thorough and in depth with a lot of info. Can't wait to watch your other videos. Keep up the good work.

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

That’s great to hear! Thank you

@charleschapman6484 5 ай бұрын

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@XavierBlackburn777 5 ай бұрын

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@jdillabdaflyest 6 ай бұрын

Great stuff....continue this

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Thank you. Definitely will

@calmncollectede5710 6 ай бұрын

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@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Thank you very much🙂

@assistnba 6 ай бұрын

Underrated video💯💯

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Appreciate that!

@rangerheir5821 6 ай бұрын

Kwame Brown is one of about 3 guys who can legitimately guard Shaq 1v1 without any help. Yao, Hakeem, and Kwame himself. All others like rodman or ben wallace played more help defense but also did good.

@kellenwong 6 ай бұрын

Kwame sucks!!! Total Bust!!!

@arkie622 6 ай бұрын

I root for kwame my guy was only 18 years old dealing with that , Jordan was a bully to his bulls teammates too difference is this were grown men

@mxhughes 6 ай бұрын

Stop the excuses once kwame decided to hop into the man's league he shoulda started being serious and got tough skin.Why don't we hear complaints from guys like t mac,kg,kobe,lebron,monta ellis etc who jumped into the league from high school

@cottonmather8146 6 ай бұрын

@@mxhughes Those guys didn't get drafted by the best player ever lol

@ellijah_gardaya 6 ай бұрын

Jordan’s antics were to test his teammates. Kobe was similar. Wasn’t the best way sometimes but they won championships

@jsports2665 6 ай бұрын

Had kwame been drafted by a team like the Spurs he'd of had a successful yet underwhelming career

@cottonmather8146 6 ай бұрын

@@jsports2665 No he wouldn't, but in terms of relative draft position, he was a bust. He was very poor offensively. However, he was actually solid on defense and would serve better as a backup big than as a starting big

@DavidCandelaMartinez 4 ай бұрын

I could argue that Pau's impact internationally has been bigger, or at least the same, as in his NBA career. For Spain, he's been the best player of our entire history and he's regarded as one of the best European players ever.

@richdouglas2311 6 ай бұрын

Brown played more than a dozen years in the league. Jordan was awful to him and severely dwarfed his development.

@burekevan 6 ай бұрын

Kwame Brown got dealt a ROUGH hand, had to deal with old angry bitter MJ and then immediately with younger selfish bull in a china shop Kobe. had to be hard for someone right out of highschool

@travisitio 6 ай бұрын

Please explain to me what MJ was bitter about? Lmao

@travisitio 6 ай бұрын

Now if you called him a sociopath that's ultra competitive than ok, but he had nothing to be bitter about.

@TheHuskyK9 6 ай бұрын

@@travisitio MJ was always bitter, even when he was winning. If you were not absolute perfection, he will chew you out. Remember, this is the same dude that spent his entire Dream Team Olympic trip training in table tennis after he lost a couple dollars from being beat in a friendly game by Lattiner, and then proceeded to shout slurs and insults towards him when he got his revenge

@travisitio 6 ай бұрын

@TheHuskyK9 Again that isn't being bitter lmao. He was a sociopathic competitor. Listen to the story Chuck tells about him wanting to gaurd the Puerto Rican pg all because he said something about him in the paper. Chuck said he was guarding dude like it's game 7 and told him "don't ever say my damn name again". Chuck said he look at Karl Malone and said "there's something wrong with this dude" 🤣🤣🤣. MJ is alot of the things. But I don't think bitter is one. Recognized widely as the GOAT, global icon, billionaire etc. If he's bitter than what does that make the rest of us lmao

@travisitio 6 ай бұрын

@TheHuskyK9 Now Scottie Pippen is bitter

@RandomBurner 4 ай бұрын

It’s still weird that Pau Gasol was drafted between Brown and Chandler and like Doncic he was drafted by the Hawks at 3 and traded

@grammysworld5449 6 ай бұрын

This riding Kwame bust thing is getting old.. He isnt even the biggest of the last 20 years with Darko, Bagley, Anthony Bennett etc.. just seems lazy to even say this

@swaymcthunder1219 6 ай бұрын

The whole Curry bust thing is cruel too. No one ever mentions that his first child got murdered in chicago in the offseason between his breakout season with the knicks and the season he came out of shape and "ruined" his career. Dude was going through some serious stuff at a young age. It has always kind of bugged me that this got almost no attention and very few to this day even know this.

@moopert86 6 ай бұрын

Kwame definitely would have been better with some college, but when Michael Jordan shows up at your front door and says he's taking you with a high pick no 18 year old kid's gonna say no to that.

@desrever1138 15 сағат бұрын

Great video dude but every time you tried to pronounce Eduardo Nájera's name the Texan in me cringed lmao. It's pronounced "NAH-hur-ah". In Spanish J's have an H sound (think Jalapeño)

@petesmart1983 6 ай бұрын

Griffin and white were the biggest busts especially Griffin who had great potential but let down by his addictions and off court

@ishmaelreyes8659 6 ай бұрын

Two decades after Kwame, we have Ben Simmons being babysitted by coaches and teammates yet he couldn't find his groove. Then they said today's basketball is harder than the 90s early 2000s.

@swaymcthunder1219 6 ай бұрын

There is one thing about Curry that no one ever seems to mention when talking about his downfall, and it was pretty big. Eddy Curry had another child before the six he has now. His child and the woman he was going through the divorce process, i think, got murdered in the offseason between his breakout year with the knicks and when he came super out of shape. Naturally, it took him some time to move on. I dont know why this doesnt get any attention at all, he just usually gets shitted on. Not saying you did, just overall. It is something i wish more people knew about tho

@robertjones8771 5 ай бұрын

I liked Mr.Kwame Bred Mr.Kwame Brown💪🏽🏀💯‼️

@facts2676 4 ай бұрын

Pau Gasol 🐐

@ebonix33 6 ай бұрын

7th pick eddie Griffin... had severe depression and some mental issue ..especially when his mentor died... it went downhill fast

@chrishastings8888 6 ай бұрын

I remember this, some dudes can’t handle this. Bulls say MJ what an a- hole but helped them in practice, player got soft w/ words. Wizards sucked mj bought the team. They still kinda suck.

@eugenemoses4175 6 ай бұрын

Aye bruh…IDGAD IF ITS JESUS MF CHRIST…. Ain’t no mf talking to me like that without repercussions… it could be Jordan,Kobe, Lebron, KD, Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, or Larry fucking Bird im swinging on whoever talkin to me lih dat…. Idc who disagrees. I blame Kwame Browns Bust of a career on MJ. He completely eviscerated that “kids”confidence. Clearly it had a huge impact on his confidence, which in turn led to his disappointing career. Jordan and Old Mfs like him only know 1 method to comforting, encouraging, and motivating people, whether it’s friends,family, Teammates, strangers, acquaintances, and lovers…. It’s called tough love. 😂😂. If MJ and Kobe would’ve been more sensible and more empathetic with Kwame, they would’ve saw and learned he did t respond well to that method of encouraging. Should’ve taken the soft approach. MJ and Kobe were kind of dickheads for treating bro like that.

@TheHuskyK9 6 ай бұрын

Nah, if you tried to hurt Jordan around that time and you'd be blacklisted out of the league immediately lol

@travisitio 6 ай бұрын

NBA "no boys allowed" it's a man's sport. Nobody has time to hold your hand and baby you. 😂😂😂

@lbjr777 6 ай бұрын

Ok tough guy keyboard warrior. Tell us you’d suck pipe without telling us.

@geoclark7070 5 ай бұрын

Brown wasn’t a bust he was an average player.

@jimsangreal7663 5 ай бұрын

Good job overall. Some pronunciation errors: Alexis Ajinca (Ah-Jeh-saw) - I don't know why the n is silent. Eduardo Najera - I've heard NA-HAIR-uh and Na-HER-uh. The first is, I believe, the correct pronunciation. However, I'm not a native Spanish speaker and Najera comes from Arabic, so all bets are off.

@SweatbandSports 5 ай бұрын

Thanks Jim, since this video I have done my best to get all the names pronounced correctly. I got a couple comments about it on this video

@jimsangreal7663 5 ай бұрын

@@SweatbandSports, these names are hard, especially when you consider that the names sometimes are one language's interpretation of another's... or, in the case of Chinese to English, never transliterated phonetically (e.g., Chinese star Wang Zhi-Zhi, the first ever player from PRC to come to the US, is pronounced more like Wong Shoe Shoe). This shouldn't take away from the great level of detail you went in tracing these players careers. Having lived through this era and watched these drafts as they occurred, this was a great refresher and added to my nostalgia. I'm going to look at what you said about the 2006 draft next. That was an incredible draft for misguided expectations. I don't think anybody expected it to be a 1984 or 2003 draft, but I believe most pundits didn't think it would be as bad as it was.

@SweatbandSports 5 ай бұрын

@@jimsangreal7663 hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think of it

@levitaylorlll4437 6 ай бұрын

I'm backing off kwame I mean I knew he went through but I didn't know to what extent wow

@mrkslxnneTV 6 ай бұрын

well at least browne has some talents outside basketball, unlike other basketball superstar that became poor

@jaylenbell2127 3 ай бұрын

Fun fact kwame brown is from my hometown 😂

@Joshkind82 6 ай бұрын

Enjoyed. Sagana Jop. The shitty center on the Mavs. That's how it's pronounced lol.

@ColeFrmNc 6 ай бұрын

Is this sweatband tv from apex 🧍🏾‍♂️

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Used to be!

@Midori_Ringo 6 ай бұрын

Kwame isn't the even the biggest bust of this draft. Eddy Curry is. His rebounds per game as a center in this era is terrible, really awful defensively too. He was a bust for the Bulls. He signed a huge contract with the Knicks and ate his way out of the league - He busted for them too, It was so bad his contract was a major part of why the Knicks were so bad for almost a decade. Kwame was just a backup big after his rookie contract. He wasn't given a franchise player level contract like Curry that he failed on. He didn't cripple two teams

@petesmart1983 6 ай бұрын

White, Griffin and diop were even worse

@swaymcthunder1219 6 ай бұрын

By the sound of this, it sounds like you have no idea what happened to Eddy Curry. I am from Chicago, and agree with the rebounding thing and his defense. He was a bust for us. He did start to show that promise on the offensive side in this first season with the Knicks. Going back to my first sentence, that offseason changed his life, and this got no attention even to this day outside of chicago. But Curry had a previous child to the 6 that he mentioned in this video. And that child got murdered, along with the woman who he was currently going through a divorce with, in chicago in that offseason. That is why "he ate himself" out of the league. He was going through some serious shit at such a young age. If anything, Curry's story is much sadder than Kwame's, yet everyone just shits on the guy without even knowing the full story. And yes diop was so much worse.

@therealneal3034 6 ай бұрын

RIP Eddie Griffin That being said, a DUI car crash watching porn is the best career ender I’ve ever heard in my life.

@petesmart1983 6 ай бұрын

He was a alcoholic and drug addict hardly a great career ender

@BozoFinder8 3 ай бұрын

“Up next is another player who would’ve benefited by spending some time in college. Desagana Diop was another player who made the jump from high school to the NBA… Scouts viewed him a player who blocked extremely well In college” Wtf ru saying 😭

@SweatbandSports 3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure I had to delete parts due to copyright by the NBA…

@godlikemonolith 6 ай бұрын

Sounds like Kwame had a pretty good career. They are only busts because we hype them.

@andreknox1424 6 ай бұрын

Kwame’s mommas’s cooking did not prepare him to be mentally tough enough for the NBA. He was too damn immature.

@ddotmargiela8285 5 ай бұрын

Pau Gasol should have went 1st

@smoothjb2384 6 ай бұрын

A lot of em was good players just got old

@Los4rmdagang4 5 ай бұрын

Kwame on TV now?

@GBsavant 6 ай бұрын

Eduardo Nahera pronunciation

@swaymcthunder1219 6 ай бұрын

nice, someone else noticed

@bradangus407 6 ай бұрын

Pau Gasol. The sole reason kobe has 5 rings.

@0maxk_ 6 ай бұрын

Shaq big ass shadows enters the equation

@gerardporter171 6 ай бұрын

Kobe the only reason gasol even has 2 rings

@jamman950 6 ай бұрын

They needed each other bro don’t do that

@shadbreezy94 6 ай бұрын

@@jamman950Exactly and not to mention Kobe already had three so how was pay responsible for those 😂 wtf is bull talking about

@batsoupman1697 6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂😂😂 the same Pau that didn't win a single playoff game before Kobe

@GGwithkamatis 6 ай бұрын

Imagine having to deal with the hyper competitive psychos like Jordan and Kobe. 99% of us would break.

@Skinnyman4485 5 ай бұрын

Kwame BUST Brown should be ashamed of himself

@brianbrown4415 6 ай бұрын

Stop calling Kwame a bust YOU EVER PLAYED COLLEGE OR HIGHSCHOOL BASKETBALL? IF SO you would understand how hard it is to last in the NBA for 10 years

@SweatbandSports 6 ай бұрын

Compared to other #1 picks, Kwame was indeed a bust

@TheGaara802 6 ай бұрын

Calm down

@odogggg2010 6 ай бұрын

Man , these kids don't even learn cursive any😢because it's to hard . The world today is about to die slowly, smh

@ernieestrada193 6 ай бұрын

Tp9 💍💍💍💍🤠🇨🇱☝️

@Totalrecarlo 6 ай бұрын

🥓😂

@Mason-rt1et 6 ай бұрын

Second

@mankivigs1 6 ай бұрын

I remember when getting bullied meant someone actually put hands on you. When I was a kid growing up in Chicago everyone talked sh*t to everyone else and we called it clowning. Hell even teachers got in on the action. 😂😂😂😂

@tsmguxxi6559 4 ай бұрын

Mj sucks

@enjoylife1239 6 ай бұрын

i really don't get kwame brown hate....dude 100% was a bust...but peoples acting like he was biggest bust of all time...when he had ok career for like 12 years...its becouse Jordan drafted him...dude like anthony bennet way bigger draft bust...but no one even remembers him ..dude was number one pick and after couple years was playing in G-League

@Threezus17 6 ай бұрын

5 and 4 is okay for 12 years?

@grammysworld5449 6 ай бұрын

@@Threezus17yes. can tell you never played an organized ball

@Threezus17 6 ай бұрын

@grammysworld5449 then your a bust as a #1 I played in high school 😂

@grammysworld5449 6 ай бұрын

@@Threezus17 I doubt it, you're on every comment.. you never hooked

@Threezus17 6 ай бұрын

@grammysworld5449 I never hooped? I'll send the Addy and we can 1v1 then.