2012 NBA Draft Results

Yesterday marked the day of the 2012 NBA Draft and many things happened the way they were supposed to. Anthony Davis went first overall, David Stern was booed whenever he appeared and every pick after #1 was a crapshoot. Charlotte was the first to put speculation to rest by taking Michael Kidd-Gilchrist with the second pick over Bradley Beal, Thomas Robinson and other other hopefuls.

Surprises were plentiful and present throughout the draft as well. Some highlights include Andre Drummond falling all the way to Detroit at #9, the Toronto Raptors reaching for Terrence Ross at #8, Dion Waiters taken by Cleveland at #4 and Perry Jones falling all the way to the Oklahoma City Thunder at pick #28.

In general, teams tended to draft based on need rather than on talent. I would have to say that the Thunder more than likely may have taken the ‘steal’ of the draft in Perry Jones. Without a doubt, this draft will be one where stars will pop up throughout the first round, and fans will be banging their heads realizing what could have been. As fans, all we can do is watch and speculate.

Who do you think had the best draft? Let me know in the comments.

Here are the complete first and second round results: (Source: NBADraft.net)

	Team	Player	H	W	P	School	C
1	New Orleans	Anthony Davis	6-10	222	PF	Kentucky	Fr.
2	Charlotte	Michael Kidd-Gil…	6-7	233	SF	Kentucky	Fr.
3	Washington	Bradley Beal	6-4	202	SG	Florida	Fr.
4	Cleveland	Dion Waiters	6-4	215	SG	Syracuse	So.
5	Sacramento	Thomas Robinson	6-9	244	PF	Kansas	Jr.
6	Portland	Damian Lillard	6-3	189	PG	Weber St.	Jr.
7	Golden St.	Harrison Barnes	6-8	228	SF	North Carolina	So.
8	Toronto	Terrence Ross	6-7	197	SG/SF	Washington	So.
9	Detroit	Andre Drummond	6-11	279	PF/C	UConn	Fr.
10	New Orleans	Austin Rivers	6-5	203	SG	Duke	Fr.
11	Portland	Meyers Leonard	7-1	250	C	Illinois	So.
12	Houston	Jeremy Lamb	6-5	179	SG	UConn	So.
13	Phoenix	Kendall Marshall	6-4	197	PG	North Carolina	So.
14	Milwaukee	John Henson	6-10	216	PF	North Carolina	Jr.
15	Philadelphia	Moe Harkless	6-8	207	SF	St. Johns	Fr.
16	Houston	Royce White	6-8	261	SF	Iowa St.	So.
17	Cleveland	Tyler Zeller	7-0	247	PF/C	North Carolina	Sr.
18	Houston	Terrence Jones	6-9	252	SF/PF	Kentucky	So.
19	Orlando	Andrew Nicholson	6-10	234	PF	St. Bonaventure	Sr.
20	Denver	Evan Fournier	6-7	204	SG	France	Intl.
21	Boston	Jared Sullinger	6-9	268	PF	Ohio State	So.
22	Boston	Fab Melo	7-0	255	C	Syracuse	So.
23	Atlanta	John Jenkins	6-4	212	SG	Vanderbilt	Jr.
24	Cleveland	Jared Cunningham	6-5	188	SG	Oregon St.	Jr.
25	Memphis	Tony Wroten	6-6	203	PG/SG	Washington	Fr.
26	Indiana	Miles Plumlee	7-0	252	PF/C	Duke	Sr.
27	Philadelphia	Arnett Moultrie	6-11	233	PF	Mississippi St.	Jr.
28	Oklahoma Cty	Perry Jones	6-11	234	SF/PF	Baylor	So.
29	Chicago	Marquis Teague	6-2	189	PG	Kentucky	Fr.
30	Golden St.	Festus Ezeli	6-11	264	C	Vanderbilt	Sr.

#	Team	Player	H	W	P	School	C
31	Charlotte	Jeffery Taylor	6-7	213	SF	Vanderbilt	Sr.
32	Washington	Tomas Satoransky	6-7	201	PG/SG	Czech Republic	Intl.
33	Dallas	Bernard James	6-10	230	PF	Florida St.	Sr.
34	Dallas	Jae Crowder	6-6	241	SF/PF	Marquette	Sr.
35	Golden St.	Draymond Green	6-7	236	SF/PF	Michigan St.	Sr.
36	Indiana	Orlando Johnson	6-5	224	SF	UC Santa Barb…	Sr.
37	Toronto	Quincy Acy	6-8	224	PF	Baylor	Sr.
38	Denver	Quincy Miller	6-10	219	SF	Baylor	Fr.
39	Detroit	Khris Middleton	6-8	216	SG/SF	Texas A&M	Jr.
40	Portland	Will Barton	6-6	174	SG/SF	Memphis	So.
41	Brooklyn	Tyshawn Taylor	6-3	180	PG/SG	Kansas	Sr.
42	Milwaukee	Doron Lamb	6-4	199	SG	Kentucky	So.
43	Atlanta	Mike Scott	6-8	237	PF	Virginia	Sr.
44	Detroit	Kim English	6-6	192	SG	Missouri	Sr.
45	Miami	Justin Hamilton	7-0	260	C	LSU	Jr.
46	New Orleans	Darius Miller	6-7	238	SF	Kentucky	Sr.
47	Utah	Kevin Murphy	6-6	195	SG	Tennessee Tech	Sr.
48	New York	Kostas Papanikol…	6-9	230	SF	Greece	Intl.
49	Orlando	Kyle O’Quinn	6-10	241	PF	Norfolk St.	Sr.
50	Denver	Izzet Turkyilmaz	7-1	211	PF/C	Turkey	Intl.
51	Boston	Kris Joseph	6-7	215	SF	Syracuse	Sr.
52	Golden St.	Ognjen Kuzmic	7-1	230	C	Bosnia & Herz…	Intl.
53	LA Clippers	Furkan Aldemir	6-10	230	PF	Turkey	Intl.
54	Philadelphia	Tornike Shengelia	6-9	217	SF	Rep. of Georgia	Intl.
55	Dallas	Darius Johnson-O…	6-3	212	SG	Marquette	Sr.
56	Toronto	Tomislav Zubcic	6-10	225	SF	Croatia	Intl.
57	Brooklyn	Ilkan Karaman	6-10	236	PF	Turkey	Intl.
58	Minnesota	Robbie Hummel	6-8	218	SF	Purdue	Sr.
59	San Antonio	Marcus Denmon	6-3	188	PG/SG	Missouri	Sr.
60	LA Lakers	Robert Sacre	6-11	260	C	Gonzaga	Sr.