For at least 18 months, it has been widely known and accepted that John Wall would go on to become the No. 1 pick in the 2010 NBA Draft.
With his rare combination of elite size, extraterrestrial athleticism, and his enormous skill set, it has been a mere formality that Wall would one day be the first to shake David Stern's hand.
After watching the 2009-10 NBA season unfold, there is one team that would decline the opportunity to make John Wall the No. 1 overall pick.
That team is the Sacramento Kings.
The reason is because that vacancy has been filled by the young phenom Tyreke Evans.
Geoff Petrie knows basketball. As the architect of the Kings since 1994, Petrie certainly realizes that Tyreke Evans already fills the role of the dominant ball-handling guard who makes the offense purr.
A Wall-Evans backcourt would resemble something like Dwyane Wade and Brandon Roy trying to play together. Two immensely talented guards, but whose skill sets are so eerily similar there is no way any NBA GM would dare pair the two. (It should be noted that Isiah Thomas started Steve Francis and Stephon Marbury together. I d ...
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The One Team Who Wouldn’t Draft John Wall First Overall
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