List of first overall NBA draft picks

The National Basketball Association’s first overall pick is that the participant who’s chosen first one of all eligible draftees by a team during the annual National Basketball Association (NBA) draft. The first select is given in most circumstances, that team had a losing record in the season. The team with the first pick attracts significant media attention, as does.
First selections have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award: Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (record six-time winner), Bill Walton, Magic Johnson (three-time winner), Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan (two-time winner), LeBron James (four-time winner), and Derrick Rose (youngest winner).
Since the advent of the draft lottery in 1985, seven number one picks have won an NBA title. They are Shaquille O’Neal, David Robinson, Glenn Robinson, Tim Duncan, LeBron James, Andrew Bogut, and Kyrie Irving.
China’s Yao Ming (2002) and Italy’s Andrea Bargnani (2006) are the only two players without aggressive expertise from the United States to be drafted first overall. Eleven other international players with U.S. college experience have been drafted first overall–Mychal Thompson (Bahamas) in 1978, Hakeem Olajuwon (Nigeria) in 1984, Patrick Ewing (Jamaica) in 1985, Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin Islands) in 1997, Michael Olowokandi (Nigeria) in 1998, Andrew Bogut (Australia) in 2005, Kyrie Irving (Australia) at 2011, Anthony Bennett (Canada) at 2013, Andrew Wiggins (Canada) at 2014, Ben Simmons (Australia) in 2016, and Deandre Ayton (Bahamas) in 2018. Duncan is an American citizen, but is considered an”international” participant by the NBA because he wasn’t born in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia. Ewing had dual Jamaican-American citizenship when he had been drafted and Irving[5] and Simmons[6] had dual citizenship when they were drafted.
Note that the drafts between 1947 and 1949 were held by the Basketball Association of America (BAA). After murdering teams the Basketball Association of America became the National Basketball Association. Official NBA books include the BAA Drafts within the NBA’s draft background.

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