Consider a wiry and athletic 6-foot-8 wing, with guard-like dribbling ability and eye-popping versatility to play anywhere along the perimeter. Add an ebullient personality and a squeaky-clean demeanor and an off-the-charts basketball intelligence.
In today’s NBA, that’s any coach’s and general manager’s dream, a likely No. 1 pick and franchise player.
In 1994, that was Grant Hill.
Hill fell to the Pistons, who had the No. 3 pick in that draft and selected Hill, who was selected behind Glenn Robinson Jr. and Jason Kidd and embarked on a roller-coaster career, with the best six of his 19 NBA seasons spent with the Pistons.