Five Christmas Day games, five all-time gifts that keep on giving. This Christmas’ NBA action on ESPN and ABC features five players, each the current face of their franchise, who all arrived on their team through the generosity of others.
The Pistons take Darko Milicic with the second pick in the 2003 NBA Draft. The Heat settle for Dwyane Wade
The 2003 draft was one of the best for top talent in NBA history, so when Joe Dumars of the Detroit Pistons took Serbian center Darko Milicic instead of Carmelo Anthony, Chris Bosh or Dwyane Wade at No.