San Antonio Spurs Tony Parker (Photo by Jared Wickerham/Getty Images)
The San Antonio Spurs struck gold when they drafted Tony Parker in 2001, but as he revealed in his new book, the Boston Celtics almost beat them to it.
Predicting how an NBA player is going to pan out can sometimes be impossible. As a result, every team has had their share of draft day blunders and mistakes that haunted them for years. The San Antonio Spurs are no strangers to making such errors themselves. But in 2001, it was a monumental mishap by the Boston Celtics that changed the course of the Spurs’ future forever.