{"id":1226,"date":"2019-06-19T18:24:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T23:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pauleide.com\/?p=1226"},"modified":"2020-10-03T14:30:25","modified_gmt":"2020-10-03T19:30:25","slug":"2003-nba-draft-best-first-round-ever-poor-darko-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/2003-nba-draft-best-first-round-ever-poor-darko-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"2003 NBA Draft: Best Ever? (Poor Darko Edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2925 lazyload\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2003-nba-draft-1.jpg\" alt=\"2003 NBA Draft Featured &lt;a rel=\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2003-nba-draft-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2003-nba-draft-1-600x329.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><noscript><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"850\" height=\"466\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2925 lazyload\" src=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2003-nba-draft-1.jpg\" alt=\"2003 NBA Draft Featured &lt;a rel=\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2003-nba-draft-1.jpg 850w, https:\/\/i80sportsblog.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/2003-nba-draft-1-600x329.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 850px) 100vw, 850px\" \/><\/noscript>Poor Darko was 10 years too early. What\u2019s funny about the 2003 NBA Draft class is how people remember it.<\/h1>\n<p>Sure, everyone knows that LeBron went number one overall, and then Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh, Dwyane Wade and Chris Kaman were all drafted in succession. But the only thing anyone remembers about the 2003 NBA Draft is how Darko Milicic went number two overall.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In hindsight it\u2019s an obviously questionable move but the thing is, at the time, when it was <em>happening<\/em> even, it was an <em>equally questionable move<\/em>. How rare is that? A decision that is equally bad from the instant you make it to several years later and <em>everyone<\/em> knows, yet no one can stop it! Hindsight doesn\u2019t even make it look worse, as it\u2019s prone to do, generally speaking; it <em>is<\/em> worse just by existing.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe it\u2019s because his name is \u201cDarko\u201d which makes a lot of people think of the semi popular cult movie <em>Donnie Darko<\/em> or maybe it\u2019s the unfortunate coincidence that Darko looked a lot like a taller, less devious Joran Van Der Sloot during a time when he was all over the media, but whatever the reason, everyone remembers him and the equally questionable movie. Which interestingly, was committed and presided over by one time NBA Executive of the Year Joe Dumars. And it has to be equally bad for him. No one remembers he rebuilt a Pistons franchise that went to the Eastern Conference Finals six straight years.\u00a0 All they remember is Darko.<\/p>\n<p>The Pistons were so good at the time that they just sat him on the bench (the way NFL teams do with young QB\u2019s) and hoped he would absorb knowledge and \u201cknow how\u201d from all the talent around him because the Pistons were loaded at the time and he was only 18 years old.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of accepting the presumed gamut thrown at him by the tough, physical big men that littered Detroit\u2019s roster at the time (Ben Wallace, Rasheed Wallace, Corliss Williamson, even Elden Campbell for crying out loud!) and excelling, Darko played the role of shrinking violet; instead of spurring his development, it <em>spurned<\/em> his development and damaged his psyche so bad that he dyed his hair horribly, further ostracizing him from the team. On the plus side, he did outscore ESPN analyst Hubert Davis in his final year in the NBA by 1.4 ppg- only because Davis didn\u2019t score a single point that season.<\/p>\n<p>But the really sad thing is that until two years ago, he had won more NBA titles than LeBron, Carmelo and Chris Bosh combined! \u00a0I know it\u2019s a low blow LeBron fans, but someone had to say it!<\/p>\n<p>You have to wonder how Darko feels about that ring. When he goes back to Novi Sad, Serbia one can only assume he\u2019s treated like a hero, a national treasure and presumably he laps it up, if only for show to give the people what they want.\u00a0 But deep inside, when he\u2019s all alone in his mansion at night, he probably feels like Gollum in <em>Lord of The Rings<\/em> and hates it; hates that he loves it, hates that it defines him, hates that he isn\u2019t worthy of it. But yet, he\u2019s stuck with it, and the ring with <em>him<\/em>. 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