God he was so young. It's honestly mind boggling how famous this kid was and how much weight he had on his shoulders yet to this day not a single scandal or anything.
Seriously though. That's what makes his GOAT case even better imo. It's sadly not exactly the most common thing for someone to be a true HOFer on AND off the court and you're right to be the "chosen one" of the NBA as a teenager is absolutely insane.... I'm 33 myself and just thinking about what I was doing/where I was at between 15-18 when he was gearing up to enter one of the biggest sports or entertainment leagues as a freaking prodigy is mind blowing. 20+ years (no breaks AKA retirements just saying lol) of being consistently one of the best basketball players on the planet night in and night out plus like you said no scandals, been with his wife since the beginning, great father, huge with charities, foundations, community programs, etc. Smart AF with his $$$ & business ventures and I'm sure his 2nd career is already set up at this point the way he branches out to other forms of entertainment. Yet some people somehow somewway really do hate this man like he did something personal to their mom haha
16:13 jerry west kind of cursed that pick. He was like just cause you pick high doesn't guarantee you pick right and boy did the pistons pick wrong especially with number of great options left.
@18:16 Caron Butler's reaction to hearing Detroit gets Memphis's pick. & also looks like Allan Houston, Antawn Jamison, & Juan Dixon behind them are joking about it too. 😂
17:10 the face of someone who saw at least two championship slip from their fingers... A Lebron James, Pau Gasol, Shane Battier, Mike Miller and Jason Williams team would have been an all-time passing team.
Honestly, I think LeBron James BIGGEST weakness is that he has ALWAYS been the best player on his team... by a lot. Even as an 18 YO rookie, he was still the star of his team. Getting drafted by Memphis would have put him in a VERY different culture where he would have been expected to be less ball dominant. That's LeBron's biggest weakness, he doesn't offer much without the ball, which is why his best RS was with the 09 Cavs, not the Miami superteam.
They had exactly the types of players Bron needed around him. A damn good wing defender who could hit the three, a sharpshooter, a good post presence & rebounder, & a point guard who could also run the offense & wasn't a black hole on offense. That Grizzlies team with West at the helm would've been a real title contender in just a few seasons. Imagine 2nd year or 3rd year Bron on the 2005 or 2006 Grizzlies. Only the Spurs would be a real challenge.
RIP David Stern. You turned the NBA into the clear #2 league out of the Big 4 and ahead of college football, racing, MMA and other competitors from the awful drug fueled controversies of the late 70s and early 80s. LBJ has been transformative for 2 franchises and his addition to the Lakers helped them win a ring during a time when no one thought it probable.
@@thunderking8925 it's been rigged since David Stern took over and employed the storyline narratives in 84 advertising the Magic Bird fued as a racial thing. It's about telling a story to attract an audience, bc without beef or a story no one would care ab basketball in America.
lebron james is simply the goat. he lived up to more hype than any athlete ever had in the history of sports. he js the greatest basketball player/athlete to ever walk this earth.
Darko got to the Finals. Carmelo & CP3 are yet to be in one. Sure Lebron got to the Finals in that decade. But Darko beat him to it, won a ring in 2 Finals appearances. Just wish Darko had a Brian Scalabrine-type personality to cover up his bust label
I mean he was drafted on a championship caliber team but did nothing. Cp3 just led his team to the finals and lebron has 4 rings along with dwade winning one on his own.
@@PoochieCollins Perhaps youll love this: Only 3 players drafted in the top 3 made it to the Finals in their first 2 seasons, winning at least 1: Tommy Heinsohn, Bill Russell & 🥁....Darko.
Never get lucky??? ‘85 Then the following year got top 5 pick Oh yeah also had a 5 pick in 82 3 top 5s with 1 #1 In a 5 year run (Also got #8 in ‘87) That alone is more the. Some teams ever had!! You got it in a FIVE year run That’s run of top 5 picks is how many my team has had in its history but never been above #3 The defending heavyweight champs DENVER NUGETS
BTW, are we still waiting for Darko Milicic? I remember hating the pick when it happened and I still hate it today. Pistons could have had so much more... had I been them, I would have drafted Bosh.
BTW, the Celtics had Denver's 2001, 2002 or 2003 1st round picks (Celtics choice) and they stupidly wanted the 2001 pick. They could have held out and gotten the 2003 pick which would have been Carmelo or Bosh or Wade.
The pistons wouldn’t get the no.1 pick by any chance. The grizzlies would keep the pick if it goes 1st because that’s the only way to draft lbj at that time
@@johnnydepp4866 LeBron was such a no brainer number 1. Seriously, EVERYONE knew he was BEFORE he even got drafted. He was so good in high school it was unfair.
I thought maybe Cleveland would send their best player on behalf of their organization like Ricky Davis or Carlos Boozer (both who were underachieving trash envious of the Lebron hype at the time)...but instead the Cavs sent themself, the team owner Gordon Gund who was probably the least famous person in the room. Nobody has ever heard of the dude yet he is the wealthy owner of the Cavs in 2003. It’s almost fitting my because the Cavs had no quality players worth representing the shitty organization.
Maybe he wanted to leave NBA after repeated failures of Cavaliers, them David Stern gave LeBron as a gift for his efforts to save the team from Ted Stepien? He got old and decided to cash out.
That intro has me dead 💀
Shit is fuckin what the hell is going on hahahaha
Shits dope asf
is that Dane Cook lmao
Classic 2003 🤣
Everyone thought aping The Matrix was cool.
“ We don’t know who we’re gonna pick yet”
Tongue sticks out salivating for Lebron
This intro is the most 2003 thing I can think of lmao
God he was so young. It's honestly mind boggling how famous this kid was and how much weight he had on his shoulders yet to this day not a single scandal or anything.
…not…not a single scandal?
Really?
You’re that out of it?
Find God
Seriously though. That's what makes his GOAT case even better imo. It's sadly not exactly the most common thing for someone to be a true HOFer on AND off the court and you're right to be the "chosen one" of the NBA as a teenager is absolutely insane.... I'm 33 myself and just thinking about what I was doing/where I was at between 15-18 when he was gearing up to enter one of the biggest sports or entertainment leagues as a freaking prodigy is mind blowing. 20+ years (no breaks AKA retirements just saying lol) of being consistently one of the best basketball players on the planet night in and night out plus like you said no scandals, been with his wife since the beginning, great father, huge with charities, foundations, community programs, etc. Smart AF with his $$$ & business ventures and I'm sure his 2nd career is already set up at this point the way he branches out to other forms of entertainment. Yet some people somehow somewway really do hate this man like he did something personal to their mom haha
The leading all-time scorer in NBA history… funny to think back at how there were some fans chanting “overrated” at LeBron’s draft 😂
@@AdamKlownzinger whatre you on about lmao
Lebron politics is definitely a scandal. Half the country don’t agree with him
Wooooooaaaa i'm pretty sure the grizzlies's fans believed they had Lebron, when they saw the number 3 pick went to Denver 😲😂.
More like pistons fans
@@luthecurryeater no cause if they had the N1 pick it was for Memphis
12:57 Looked disappointed lol. Oh how little did you know you were getting 3X NBA championships out of that pick
Thanks to SHAQ (*10TH GREATEST) & LEBRON (*THE 1ST GREATEST)
Shaq did not have a good finals in 06. Get your head out of your ass.
@@nuckymancini7013 without wade they're maybe a 7-9 seed. and Shaq turned into O'neal in that finals
@@nuckymancini7013 Shaq barely did anything that year stupid
@@nuckymancini7013when dud he play with jordan?
16:13 jerry west kind of cursed that pick. He was like just cause you pick high doesn't guarantee you pick right and boy did the pistons pick wrong especially with number of great options left.
If Memphis had landed the #1 pick, that would’ve been a nice squad with Lebron, Pau, JWill, Battier, and Mike Miller
That could've been a WCF squad by Bron's third season & a for sure Finals squad by 2006-2008.
And wright
The commentary during the picks is killing me, it sounds like they on a golf course 😂.
@18:16 Caron Butler's reaction to hearing Detroit gets Memphis's pick. & also looks like Allan Houston, Antawn Jamison, & Juan Dixon behind them are joking about it too. 😂
@17:45 That Cavs owners tongue laugh had me dead lmao!
he was blind lmao
Lol
17:10 the face of someone who saw at least two championship slip from their fingers... A Lebron James, Pau Gasol, Shane Battier, Mike Miller and Jason Williams team would have been an all-time passing team.
Mahad Mohamed it not their faults
Oh god just imagining that team is mind boggling asf 🤯
Honestly, I think LeBron James BIGGEST weakness is that he has ALWAYS been the best player on his team... by a lot. Even as an 18 YO rookie, he was still the star of his team. Getting drafted by Memphis would have put him in a VERY different culture where he would have been expected to be less ball dominant. That's LeBron's biggest weakness, he doesn't offer much without the ball, which is why his best RS was with the 09 Cavs, not the Miami superteam.
They could've had year 2 Lebron (2nd team all-NBA) and Pau Gasol on their ROOKIE DEALS.
THEIR ROOKIE DEALS
THAT TEAM WOULD HAVE BEEN BEYOND CRACKED
They had exactly the types of players Bron needed around him. A damn good wing defender who could hit the three, a sharpshooter, a good post presence & rebounder, & a point guard who could also run the offense & wasn't a black hole on offense. That Grizzlies team with West at the helm would've been a real title contender in just a few seasons. Imagine 2nd year or 3rd year Bron on the 2005 or 2006 Grizzlies. Only the Spurs would be a real challenge.
Gordon Gund The Ultimate Winner.. Man Dan Gilbert swooped in just fast.
well he had some disease that made it so he got progressively more blind unfortunately . so i think thats why he sold
RIP David Stern. You turned the NBA into the clear #2 league out of the Big 4 and ahead of college football, racing, MMA and other competitors from the awful drug fueled controversies of the late 70s and early 80s.
LBJ has been transformative for 2 franchises and his addition to the Lakers helped them win a ring during a time when no one thought it probable.
Because it's rigged.
@@thunderking8925 it's been rigged since David Stern took over and employed the storyline narratives in 84 advertising the Magic Bird fued as a racial thing. It's about telling a story to attract an audience, bc without beef or a story no one would care ab basketball in America.
Adam silver is a disgrace.
Imagine Carmelo with the Pistons at that time
Rip NBA
Rip Tayshaun Prince
They didn't need him. They were given the championship plus back to back finals.
@@thunderking8925prince was a big part of that team. People who saw those piston teams know how valuable he was
Sixth man Melo
Imagine Wade in Detroit. RIP Hamilton would be the perfect 6th man
100 million before an NBA game.. that's gotta be hype man.. imagine if he wasn't the player he is today
Jerry west dying inside realizing they were that close to lebron is actually sadly funny
David stern working hard rigging these lottos even back then
Memphis gave their pick to Detroit
And they picked Darko
Paulo Alexandre they did
Jerry West donkey
Stan Kroenke in a "Gotham City Mob Boss" motif...
Elgin Baylor, the veteran of the lottery process
Imagine if Memphis won the lottery. Also David Stern is so calm it's kinda scary. RIP
God bless
This was definitely fixed so lebron goes to Cleveland, no way they were going to let him go to Denver or Memphis
lebron james is simply the goat. he lived up to more hype than any athlete ever had in the history of sports. he js the greatest basketball player/athlete to ever walk this earth.
The year the new 🐐 picked and other greats
If the Raptors got first pick it would be definitive proof that the system is not rigged
17:40 was fucking hilarious
Carmelo on The Pistons just breaks my mind
17:44 That has to be the most evil laugh I've ever seen on national television. Slithery little snakey snaaaake. 🐍🐍🐍
That’s that “I was just gifted the greatest basketball talent of all time” snicker lmao
@@OhioKing_Z 😂 idc that tongue needs to remain in his damn mouth.
@@whackedoutcookie5487 aye he was blind so I’ll give him a pass 😂
Carmelo be watching Carmelo be watching Carmelo
Darko got to the Finals. Carmelo & CP3 are yet to be in one.
Sure Lebron got to the Finals in that decade. But Darko beat him to it, won a ring in 2 Finals appearances.
Just wish Darko had a Brian Scalabrine-type personality to cover up his bust label
I mean he was drafted on a championship caliber team but did nothing. Cp3 just led his team to the finals and lebron has 4 rings along with dwade winning one on his own.
Darko's a total bust, no way you should compare him to the other players like that.
@@PoochieCollins Perhaps youll love this: Only 3 players drafted in the top 3 made it to the Finals in their first 2 seasons, winning at least 1: Tommy Heinsohn, Bill Russell & 🥁....Darko.
@@ginoinencino2528 : lol. And even shittier players have championship rings to their name.
The Grizzlies just kept on delaying giving up their draft pick until the deadline in 2003, a historically strong draft class.
As a Piston's fan this video makes m stomach hurt !!! 😱 🤣🤣
Knicks never get lucky, cmon man let us win
*Rick Harrison* Their time is near..... facebook.com/groups/967348520070287/
More disappointment last night. Missed out on Zion.
Who'd we get othello harrington?!?
Imagine if they had at least got the second pic melo would of got there sooner and would have won ROY like he was supposed to
Never get lucky???
‘85
Then the following year got top 5 pick
Oh yeah also had a 5 pick in 82
3 top 5s with 1 #1
In a 5 year run
(Also got #8 in ‘87)
That alone is more the. Some teams ever had!! You got it in a FIVE year run
That’s run of top 5 picks is how many my team has had in its history but never been above #3
The defending heavyweight champs
DENVER NUGETS
Gordon Gun looks like Will Ferrel in a movie about the Cavs
Gordon Gun is funny we don't know who we are going to pick.....Really??? 😂😂
I remember this lottery!
He was taking shots at stromile and other grizzlies with the star and he knew the results but said it
Bulls love picking at 7 don’t they!
The old Cavs arena is the Gund Forum
it was the gund arena
Yeah yeah shut up
Big day in cleveland sports it for sure was
here again Carter would stayed if they got Wade or Lebron
Dwade enter the room
And Memphis made the playoffs that season without the 2nd overall pick
his hands shivering lol
BTW, are we still waiting for Darko Milicic? I remember hating the pick when it happened and I still hate it today. Pistons could have had so much more... had I been them, I would have drafted Bosh.
Well with Bosh you probably wouldn't have traded for Sheed
No Gilbert Family from Cleveland Cavaliers in 2003
Imagine if Darko became the best out this draft
The winner was miami omg they took 3 picks
Milicic... Anthony... LEBRON!!!
West was president of tge grizzlies. I thought he never left the west coast as an executeive
BTW, the Celtics had Denver's 2001, 2002 or 2003 1st round picks (Celtics choice) and they stupidly wanted the 2001 pick. They could have held out and gotten the 2003 pick which would have been Carmelo or Bosh or Wade.
no repeat ?
17:43
Those teeth though
That intro was so 2003 lmaooo
Who is number 22
Is it me or does anyone else feels like that intro was werid
Bron would’ve been great in Memphis
I SWEAR TO GOD THE BULLS AND THE 7TH PICK
Rip Memphis
6 -13 who are they LOL
13 teams ?
How was the raptors their spot it was supposed to be 3
16:05 he predicts darko being a bust
One of the most fixed lotteries ever!
They gave the pistons the 2nd pick to make it not look rigged knowing the pistons would make a dumb pick
Yeah, the hometown messiah storyline was too much to pass up. Bron would've won multiple championships in Memphis.
@@stayblackandgoldforlife2144 the pistons picked darko cause they saw him like a star in europe
@@CREOLEHEAT 😂😂.
wasnt it the 18th lottery
How u mess up on Melo ?
Who's here because of another sacrifice for Lebron.
It should be Pistons Melo
Nuggets Bosh
Raptors Darko
Heat Wade
Why!Joe Dumars
if lebron go to jerry west， he would become goat
Hes better than West
@@AFTR2025 🤦♂️
Rigged but for the better
Bro this intro was terrible LOL
and that what lebron did i guess with the help of the media
Darko is a bust worse than Greg Oden
Definitely. Oden was actually good but couldn't stay healthy
I can think of one that was worse:
Sam Bowie
I bet the cavs won
$100 dollars Chris Camon busts
No one had darko that high...bosh was going to be better and wade was the clear 3rd pick....
14:42 🙄
Piston fucked up..... worst draft pick ever
This was so rigged lol they would never have LeBron in Toronto, Memphis or Denver
I mean Cleveland was a small market team as well
they dumb tho lebron in toronto would’ve made them a lot more money then lebron in cleveland
Not seeing wade is crazy...or bosh...darko is so bad
Imagine if the pistons got the 1st pick and took lebron james 👀
The pistons wouldn’t get the no.1 pick by any chance. The grizzlies would keep the pick if it goes 1st because that’s the only way to draft lbj at that time
@@johnnydepp4866 LeBron was such a no brainer number 1. Seriously, EVERYONE knew he was BEFORE he even got drafted. He was so good in high school it was unfair.
amarie out of hs
I thought maybe Cleveland would send their best player on behalf of their organization like Ricky Davis or Carlos Boozer (both who were underachieving trash envious of the Lebron hype at the time)...but instead the Cavs sent themself, the team owner Gordon Gund who was probably the least famous person in the room. Nobody has ever heard of the dude yet he is the wealthy owner of the Cavs in 2003. It’s almost fitting my because the Cavs had no quality players worth representing the shitty organization.
Perhaps dajuan wagner?
@@nuckymancini7013 Trash
Maybe he wanted to leave NBA after repeated failures of Cavaliers, them David Stern gave LeBron as a gift for his efforts to save the team from Ted Stepien? He got old and decided to cash out.
Gordon also owned the Minnesota North Stars. He was pretty known in Ohio and Minnesota.
Intergrity of what
Rigged
Carmelo did NOT make other players around him better
Pistons are a joke of a franchise, and will forever be cursed for not drafting Carmelo Anthony...
Who won the NBA title the next season?
Exactly.