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[SkenfromLMF]

Could not disagree more. To determine a picks success relative to history you have to measure it against the rest of the picks. Yes, Garrnett sucked, but beyond the first three picks, that draft was BRUTAL 

The worst choice in Mavericks' history is Samaki Walker. Period. And it begins and ends with the biggest hack in Mavs' history: Keith Grant.  

First, in the 1996 Draft, he traded down from the 6th pick to the 9th.with Boston. At the time it was considered a top 5 to 6 player draft. So what did he get? Oh, just Eric Montross while also trading away an unprotected 1997 1st in what everyone knew was the Tim Duncan's senior year draft that everyone was talking for. Can you imagine a team that hasn't been in playoffs in a decade trading away an unprotected 1st in Wemby draft so they can receive Janes Wiseman?

And the Mavs could've stayed at 6 and taken the PF Antoine Walker they needed for years. Walker was a solid piece his his first 5-6 years.

Yeah, they also could've picked Kobe or Nash, but I'm not gonna expect a blind squirrel hack like Grant to find golden chestnuts like them.  But if he had a hard on for a center, he could've, at  the least, traded down and then traded for Vlade, who was a badass in the WC for years.

Funny, Grant did the Cherokee pick too.  If you think I'm being Hard on him, seriously, look at tenure. The guy basically worked his was up from the team's janitor, only to finally get his dream job and then basically take a massive s--- in the huge 10 gallon hat on center court.

From the perspective of player we should have drafted: Give me the Detlef Schrempf draft. Schrempf was a heck of a player, but he and Dale Ellis simply NEVER could get minutes on that team.
I acknowledge the question of whether Karl Malone would have been the player he became if he did not have the Dallas chip on his shoulder. But the '85 draft is a colossal bust. THE deepest draft in NBA history and we end up with:
Schempf, Wennington, Blab and Marc Acres as a mid pick in the 2nd rd (Hot Rod Williams 2, Gerald Wilkins 2, Sam Mitchell 3, Michael Adams 3, and Mario Elie 7th ROUND) all drafted after the #40 pick. Not to mention Hometown Hero: Spud Webb 4th.

Karl Malone and Joe Dumars could have been Mavs and the 3rd FRP could have possibly netted AC Green, Terry Porter, or used to trade for James Donaldson a year earlier.
IF we turn back time and draft Malone, we MIGHT not draft Roy Tarpley and end up with Ron Harper instead. A 4-5 of Perkins, Malone, and James Donaldson... yes please
Instead we get Schrempf who makes Aguirre furious (The Dallas version of Tony Kukoc), and the inertia that will tear the '80s Mavs apart is now in place.

I do agree that the Montross trade is the worst trade in the history of the franchise (pending the final judgement in the Luka outcome) with the Kidd trade creeping into the top 5 (that trade ruined my bachelor party!)

Zachanelli sucked worse without Grant if you can believe that and I don't know how to explain the complete loss of the Cleveland Capital at the end of the Norm Sonju/Rick Sund administration.

Screw an ownership poll we need to be rating GMs so that we feel better about the upcoming season.