We aren't Elias Sports Bureau, but we have a hard time believing that any team has ever had two first round picks miss 50 consecutive games --each-- in their rookie season. That's the precise number Rondae Hollis-Jefferson and Chris McCullough sat this year, McCullough recovering from an ACL tear suffered at Syracuse, and RHJ, with a broken ankle suffered in a December practice. (The Nets second round pick, Juan Pablo Vaulet, missed 19 games to an ankle issue, at the start of the Argentine league.)
Taken at No. 23 -- Hollis-Jefferson -- and No.