Dwight Howard drafted #1 overall in 2004

[P0KEcheater]

...How did Orlando pick first if the Bobcats were a new expansion team which grants the number one pick to them....?

[69TDK92]

@P0KEcheater expansion teams cant get top 3 picks

[P0KEcheater]

@69TDK92 They are automatically are granted with the number one pick, but the bobcats got screwed over by davind stern and he gave them a number two pick

[69TDK92]

@P0KEcheater no there are rules in place to prevent expansion team from having a top 3-4 and don't take part in the lottery the Cats were given the #4 pick but trade up to get #2.

[P0KEcheater]

@69TDK92 oh wow i am an idiot i always mix up nfl and nba draft rules.. you are right, and i am just an idiot lol

[earlnevanTV]

Damn Orlando Booed Dwight howard when he got drafted cuz they wanted Emecka Okafor ...now the same people begging this man to stay..funny how life works lol

[k1mochi]

Deja vu y'all!!! Drummond and Anthony Davis = Dwight and Omekfor ?

[EYEIZDAHYPE]

I don't think they'd be booing now. Emeka Okafor is shit.

[magebotjz2]

2:05 just WTF is with his face. holy crap he got so buff over the years

[martyxcallsiefer]

i think people were booing because he wasn't the rookie of the year, emeka okafor was.

but look at dwight howard and emeka okafor now. dwight howard is the best in the rarest quality position in the entire nba, and okafor puts up lower numbers than he did in his rookie season.

u mad charlotte?

[samtheman7975]

all of the best players without all-stars are in this draft: iguodala, luol deng, ben gordon, okafor, josh smith, kevin martin

[derichard10]

6 years ago: "Wow Dwight Howard is such a bust they should've drafted rookie of the year emeka okafor. Orlando Magic are dumbasses"

[china4151986]

@derichard10 lol right i thought like that

[AwfulXXXNoob]

i just wanna ask a question whats wrong with greg oden?

[GunShineState123]

Haha Stephen A Smith talking about draft Emeka Okafor because he can anchor a defense..... Dwight Howard is probly going to go down as the best defensive player of all time.

[20sugarray]

bust ;)



[AwesomeOne0111]

Straght out if high school and he is 6/10 damn what has he been feeding

[alexcastillo132]

......SUPERMAN.......

[peplajso]

seriously, they booed him? the fans were really horny about possibly draftin okafor i guess:))

[251beboomin]

boo???????????? wtf

[prettyhandsome11]

wtf in his highlights it shows him hitting a 3 pointer

[elninoloco23456]

He sure as hell was worth the wait

[Akronsfinest21]

Kwame was decent this past year

[Mryadigz]

18 rebounds a game!?!?!?!? Gahhh dammm :|

[realrocky8591]

@Mryadigz

That's not much for HS numbers. He was probably WAYYYY bigger than any competition he faced. My HS center one year was 6'6'' and 200 lbs, next year was 6'4'' and 185.

[realrocky8591]

Hard to believe, but Dwight Howard could only bench press 7 reps of 185 when he entered the league. That's like a max of 228.66, which is a bit less than his weight.

[SmooveDoctor]

@realrocky8591 He gained 15 lbs of muscle before next season.

[realrocky8591]

@SmooveDoctor

That's probably not 15 lbs of "dry" muscle, probably a mixture of muscle and water weight, lol. Water accumulating in the muscles to make it look more "swell" and bigger.

[SmoothMM]

Are those boos I hear? Funny. I don't hear that much anymore. Way to live up to the hype, Dwight!!!

[McLovin6632]

lol kwame brown got drafted first pick wher is he now

[SmoothMM]

@McLovin6632 A starting center for the Charlotte Bobcats. No joke.

[jayjoetube14]

4:00 oh my look at those averages, MONSTER! 8 BPG!

[evillathone]

At least the magics did the right thing.. if they were to get Okafur , they would be a piece of shit now... okafur sux...

[myez]

Haha, everybody wanted Okafur. 

[DarkvoidTNC]

orlando regrets what.....who?

[yuitguy]

yeah so who's Emeka Okafor?

[Akronsfinest21]

Macs won

[Sportingista18]

jay bilas said orlando would regret that pick LOL

[schaufy21]

did anyone else see rudy gay in the all american game

[MrIamabitch]

were is kevin martin vid of his draft?

[Domenick926]

they should not get #4 next year

[Bimbim3000]

imagine if dwight was picked #2 by the new orleans hornets.. and then the next year.. they drafted as pick #4 chris paul. the last 4 years in the nba, would it been so different!!

[richkid2311]

@Bimbim3000 Bobcats had the #2 pick...

[Bimbim3000]

wtf is that shit! 19rpg and 8bpg?!?!

[89Ryanhoward]

make people feel stupid now a days to see dwight howard doing really good in the nba, orlando not regreting anything

[ImPureRockk]

yeah go magic!!! dwight howard not gonna leave us so everyone STFU!!!

[MaddGio]

@ImPureRockk DUDE BECOME HEAT FANS. YOU LIVE FLORIDA RIGHT, SO BECOME A HEAT FAN!! ORLANDO IS A GOOD TEAM BUT WILL NOT WIN A NBA TITLE ANYTIME SOON.

[nicwiz]

@MaddGio The only reason miami will win a title is cuz they got the three biggest fags in the nba who cry over one loss. lebron wade and bosh probly have gay sex with eachother after every win

[DarkvoidTNC]

DUDE KILL YOURSELF ALONG WITH THE BIG 3 WHEN THEY DONT WIN A TITLE EVER!TALK SHIT BOUT ORLANDO AGAIN.

[RacerNight86]

This is my son right here.. I hope he comes to NYKnicks..

[Akronsfinest21]

Ok how come in that same year emeka got rookie of the year

[Yarbendar]

lol nice jumpshot dwight @ 2:25

[lutwey]

just like magic.........abra kadabra......now you see him now you dont. welcome to LA homie.

[bubhubbajub]

@lutwey wow i didnt know he was in l.a. not happening

[Brooklynsportfan]

orlando did go somwhere in "3 or 4 years"

[sportygu123]

He and T-Mac could've been teammates that year and for years to come...

[violenceteacher6669]

haha there booing him

[ChandlerFR]

He proved them haters wrongg

[kenneth2951]

"I don't think Orlando's going anywhere anyways the next 3 or 4 years."

[byrnesielives]

lol too melo on the court? how many t's does he have this season?

[reile567]

caugh caugh lets see................. dwight best center in the league. All nba defense, defense player of the year, mvp candidate yearly, 5 time all star. HMM Emmkeia Okawho? ummmmmmmmmm anybody help me out please?

[starwarsnspiderman30]

lol them niggers booing him

[royalfrenchfrie24]

Kwame Brown 2.0

jk!!!!!

[lutwey]

just like shaq orlando's number 1 pick will eventually go to LA.

[BennettHayes]

@lutwey keep dreaming buddy

[reile567]

@lutwey no wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Bynum the second best center int he league and gasol is only 30...trust me i could see him stayin....

[KDurantly]

@lutwey indeed.

[Kingfonte13]

i know its not for a while, but i hope he doesn't leave orlando..when he was drafted i believed he would be the one to win our first championship

[racer64]

His going to Disney World!!!

[drewbucs222]

LMAO THAT WOULD SUCK SO BAD IF ORLANDO WOULD OF PICKED EMEKA OKAFOR...

[lilmikyb]

wow these experts know NOTHING... LOL he may make orlando regret this... HAHAHAHAHAH orlando is like : we're pro.. we drafted probably the two best centers to ever play the game in Howard and Shaq...

[whodeysmack85]

That dude does not look like a high schooler

[Mrduncan910]

Mcgrady and Howard/Nelson would of been something special!

[drewbucs222]

@Mrduncan910 TO BAD MCGRADY IS A BITCH AND DEMANED A TRADE : /

[allprog]

@Mrduncan910 yeah tracy funked up,,,

[mruhopper]

lol. orlando not regrettin shit.

[yanceyshane]

@Mrduncan910 mcgrady got washed up in '07 don't foget that..lol

[Mrdirtyshirt22]

I just saw him on disney 

[tracieuba04]

So glad Orlando didnt draft Okafur... *Wipes Forehead*

[cbnunya]

19.0 RPG and 8.0 BPG WTF That's unreal.

[luzzlouis]

okafor is playin pretty good in his second year with the hornets

[61379]

he looks like his mom

[Chase3Poo]

LMAO Goes to show NBA experts don't know SHIT!

[sportygu123]

If only Orlando didn't trade McGrady a few weeks after this draft...

[MishoChampion14]

orlando`s not going anywhere in the next few season hahhaahahahahaha 09 finals much

[n0o01]

Portland can learn a thing or two from Orlando about drafting centers.

[IAmALazyOldMan]

@n0o01 It's not their fault that Greg Oden had injury problems. No doubt that Greg would be a great player if he didn't have injury problems

[GamerAntman]

@n0o01 2:11 he was a Forward at the time, but later became a Center.

[XxShiftGamingxX]

@n0o01 Greg oden isn't that bad i mean you could've said washington with kwame brown

[n0o01]

Portland could learn a thing about drafting centers from Orlando.

[isaiahcruz]

does he have braces?

[kabongothebest10]

dwight use to be 6 10 ft but know 6 11 ft

[BoierMofleasiVoda]

@kabongothebest10 he grew 1 intch  , KG was 6 10 too and dow he is 6 11 1/3

[FOR3FOWTY]

@BoierMofleasiVoda Let's get this str8 KG is 6'11 3/4 w/o shoes and DH is just shy of 6'10 w/o shoes...now when u put those thick sole addias on him on the court he's almost 6'11 coupled with the fact that his wing spand is well over 7'3 and he can jump out the gym they just gave him the nod. But KG with addias is like 7'0 1/2 and Gasol is a shade taller than that and Duncan is a shade shorter. Kg doesn't wanna be a 7 footer cuz he don't wanna play center cuz he soft!

[kemoblue4u]

going from highschool to muliti-millionaire is a matter of months....I ENVY YOU DWIGHT!!!

[ChrisSmooveismyson]

Oh my !! 25 points 19 rebounds 8 blocks !! Are you serious ??

[Kingfonte13]

i cant wait for dwight to win the first championship for orlando...i am only 18 so my sports teams( NFL-Colts,MLB-White Sox,NBA-Magic,NHL-Blackhawks) have only won 3 total championships in my lifetime

[bacon03]

@Kingfonte13 Why exactly do your sports teams all have different cities? Smh, bandwagon loser

[Kingfonte13]

@bacon03 im no bandwagon these are the teams i grew up loving in the cities ive lived in

[baryam11]

how thin he was..

[JTtheBRICK1]

haha he said magic not goin anywhere wit dwight!!!! dey went to the nba finals

[G4Showtime]

I remember watching this live and thinking, "Why didn't we just take Okafor?" I guess thats why I'm not an NBA GM.

[clamsicle]

listen to those people booing lol dwight is dominating

[25dannyleyva]

steven a smith is a piece of shit wah wah i know everything shut up you moron dwight howard #!

[armstrong2mcgrady2k1]

As a Magic fan, I was upset at the time, the Magic didn't take Phoenix's offer for T-Mac with Joe Johnson and Shawn Marion. The Magic would've been better off..

Nelson, Joe Johnson, Grant Hill, Shawn Marion and Dwight Howard would've been better IMO than Nelson, Francis, Hill, Howard and Cato.

Also I could just imagine T-Mac, Amare and Steve Nash in Phoenix. Would've been Nashty. Probably could've gotten passed San Antonio and maybe win a title.

[MeestaHoe1]

Did Dwight Howard just shoot a perimeter shot. No way!

[rockwithpiano]

i really like the way David Stern says "2004"..."four" sounds like "foh-ah".

[maveholic]

@rockwithpiano that's the jew tongue making its sneaky entrance

[gabrielabalayan]

fricking idiots booing :{P

[sqweebel]

holy shit 2:27 dwight howard hitting a jumpshot what the hell happened to that?

[joshbrownie911]

steven a smith is such a fuckin prick

[deion152002]

Howard a Legend are you stupid he hasn't did shit like shaq has done except get his team to the finals and lose, but shaq went back and won. Dwight not even close

[bigcritic69]

HE WAS WORTH THE WAIT

[ChristianEdge93]

1992: Shaq O'Neal

1993 : Chris Webber

2004 : Dwight Howard

Orlando can pick players

[yuch1102]

thank god they should've picked howard, okafor sucks

[jonnieos]

25 ppg 19 rpg 8 bpg. maybe the analysts missed that part?

[TheCoasterGod]

lol emeka okafor lol these analysts are clowns

[lolocedricarmani]

What happend to that jump shot???

[isschoolcp4c]

好似睇緊格仔咁-.-

[bigevil50]

hahha we all know dwight dominates the fucking nba compared to okafor lol

okafor is trash! great choice by orlando

[NetsFan2k]

what's with the fucking boos? okafor is horrible

[SuperMrKanu]

@NetsFan2k its New York man we boo everything

[Zangboy56]

average 12 points and 10 rebonds as a rookie. In two years became an all star and is the best center in the nba. Dwight is a beast

[nelson11111]

he was in high school here? wtf he looks like he does now

[thegov08]

the next kwame brown

[davisonk88]

man dwight was a twig back then.

[bigjmac0816]

i would have drafted okafor over d12

[poldilite]

@bigjmac0816 so where is okafor today???

[bigjmac0816]

@poldilite playing next to chris paul in new orleans

[poldilite]

@bigjmac0816 oh right not in the conference finals... right!

[LutzakVideos]

@poldilite he meant he wouldve drafted him then, but not now

[dedade8]

@bigjmac0816 never having made a finals? never having won a gold medal? never a dpoy award? never anything oter than rookie of the year

[Crabman2186]

Orlando regret what? a guy that gets 20's 20's a game over Oakbust that ended up being traded away?? PLEASE ESPN lol

[Agureghian]

gotta remember guys, before dwight's all nba teams and defensive player of the year awards ,Emeka okafor was a much higher rated player after leading uconn deep into march madness.. Give the magic all the credit, they saw his talent and upside.

[CangryKid]

2:28 dwight 3 pointer???

[TheGrappler671]

"praise the Lord!!!"

Totally man

[marstravolta22]

stephen a smith knows jack.

[kalloused]

There are lots of great players in the NBA but very few are as nice and humble as Dwight Howard. That's why he is one of my favorite players in the league.

[maluboy08]

too many higschool players get drafted #1 overall. I understand that Lebron and Dwight were good picks but still their from highschool. U don't no how they'd play against better teams like u'd see in the NCAA and the best teams in the world in the NBA

[WhYtEtYsOn]

I remember Dick Vitale saying Orlando would regret it also...I thought so to at the time. Okafor was the shit at UConn, I barely even knew who Dwight Howard was. Smart choice looking back on it, but everybody calls Okafor a bust...he still averages double doubles for a season every year.

[kalloused]

@WhYtEtYsOn yeah, Okafor just plays with a less than mediocre team. He would be absolutely incredible with a better team that would feed his skills better.

[gatorbrat1]

dwight defintely deserves to be the #1 pick in that draft. i am a great orlando magic fan

[lordjared]

why the fuck are they booing dwight? fuckfaces

[herreson]

shows how much stephen a smith knows prospects

[123magoosh]

omg did they say kawame brown was #1 draft pick??

[armstrong2mcgrady2k1]

Okafor didn't even deserve to get taken #2. Total bust. Having a horrible year too.

[xperezx7]

that draft taht year sucked becuz dwight was the best there after that was emeka and ben gordonn look at them now dwight is way better nba player than them 2

[metrogorby]

This Just proves that the person who works harder gets the better carreer instead of being a sucess due to college accomplishments

[cybill234]

lol a little too melo

[airr916]

holy shit, another high schooler??? WOW!!!

[huholah]

orlando magic really knows how to pick their centers. first Shaq then howard both legends

[Crabman2186]

@huholah Howard is a great player but he has to grow up a bit. With age he'll get better. He is the main reason we lost game 1. I love Howard but he needs to know no one can stop him and that the Celtics only chance of winning is to get him pissed off. His mature level needs to be a CHAMPION because he could be if he can just do that one small thing

[fingertapper1]

@huholah not to mention chris webber(the next year after shaq)... which they traded for penny hardaway.

[HighTowerProduction]

@huholah don't forget Chris Webber, not a center, but still a Hall-of-Famer

[bigddagenius]

"he may make orlando regret this" hhhahahhahahahahahahahahahahah­ahahahahahahahaha funny

[bigddagenius]

dumb ass stephen a. smith

[mikemike2222]

Wow, picking Shaq and Dwight Howard 1st, trading for Penny Hardaway and Jameer Nelson, they have some smart owners in Orlando

[issabaws]

and then the vince carter trade that was smart too

[BigO2daG]

lol Kwame brown xD

[Musicman0217]

ha listen to all of those boo's..

they all must feel like asses right now

[CENSOREDFORSEX]

Wow, Stephen A. Smith SUCKS AT HIS JOB.

[jpl04002]

Howard is better, but Okafor is still a pretty solid pro. The guy is a double-double machine.

[MrHrana1]

I thought at the time the Magic should have taken Emeka instead of Dwight and would be a better pro prospect. But I was dead wrong and the Magic made the right choice.

Emeka is not in Dwight Howard's league.

[lakershd]

not many r

[thegr8one80]

im so glad no-one listens to stephen a smith

[dds2190]

Damn they were all wrong about Dwight.

I have to admit I thought Emeka was better, but Dwight is a beast now. Definitely a great pick.

[Deeppack]

I bet you the Bobcats regret Orlando's choice :P

[simpleplan15]

no doubt about it...^^

[DallasStars4ever]

Orlando doesn´t regret this^^

[domski93]

2:06 hahaa look at dwight howard ...looks so funny

dwight howard #1

[xkiolix]

Imagine tmac staying on with orlando and play alongside dwight, they would be a formidable pair!

[irishock]

yeah right, Tracy would just be injured every single season

[coreybrewer135]

fuck 4 years later, he brought the magic to the finals ... okafor hasnt had 1 minute of playoff experience

[bulalo]

those who "boo", now there are like "this guy is unbelievable".. hahaha

[ay2daron]

this was the best draft class for orlando getting dwight howard and jameer nelson

[hatchboy95]

I still cant believe we picked dorell wright over nelson.

[z4ng3tsu1ch1g0]

Lol at those Magic fans shouting "BOOO!!" on the pick..... STFU look how good the man is now!! Thank you Orlando Magic GM. You didn't pick Emeka. Good pick.

[WickedPanda]

those arent magic fans booing those are uconn fans because emeka didnt go number one, besides the draft is in NY why would there be THAT man magic fans there?

[statusmvp01]

okafor wont come close to dwight...not now...not ever in their careers

[familia83]

Haha,you see how things are.Now we all can confirm that these analysts are a bunch of morons.Okafor is praticly a nobody today and Howard's a superstar. Especially liked the ''orlando will regret part''.They must be regreting huh...