It doesn’t happen often, but every few years a player enters the NBA who is different. Zion Williamson was already a legend before being drafted by the New Orleans Pelicans and it was a foregone conclusion he would be the number one pick.
Consensus number one picks don’t come along every year, in fact, there have only been a handful of years in the last 20 when the number one pick wasn’t an argument.
These seven guys came into the league with a ton of hype and for good reason. They were the alpha dogs of their class, the guys everyone knew would go number one.