Denver Stiffs · Mar 30, 2016
Getting Stiffed: the Denver Nuggets and 1997 NBA draft lottery
Bob Donnan-USA TODAY Sportsin 1997 Denver just missed out on the best PF of all time, and instead got one of the biggest busts of all time.
As we continue to march through the lottery misses of the Denver Nuggets we've reached the point where there are no more years where Denver had the best chance of getting the first overall pick. However, in 1997 the Nuggets found themselves in desperate need of talent and had the third best shot of landing what would turn out to be the greatest power forward of all time. Instead what happened is the Nuggets ended up getting saddled with the fifth overall pick and drafting one of the biggest busts at power forward of all time.