Manu Ginobli was the 57th pick. And Ben Wallace was undrafted. Those are the only ones I can think of. Any late first round superstars?
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(Jimmy Butler immediately scores 10 points with 3 steals in 30 seconds).
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About to say, Jimmy’s coming to your house with a basketball right this moment
No real current superstars were out of the teens
Other than Butler and Jokic the most recent All NBA pick from late first was Pascal Siakam
Not quite the same as Jokic or Jimmy but some examples of undervalued players in their draft classes:
Giannis went 15th in the worst draft of all time
Kawhi went 15th
Shai went 11th
Draymond went in the second round
Tyrese Haliburton went 11th
Devin Booker 11th
Donovan Mitchell 13th
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Yeah plenty of All NBA guys get taken after 10
Few after 20
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Marc Gasol was a draft and stash 2nd rounder.
And Rodman was an early 2nd round pick.
Plenty of good players have been taken in the 2nd round.
I would guess there’s at least one gem who was taken in a later round, back when the NBA had a deeper draft.
Other than the ones mentioned,
I got 1 HOF guy - Dennis Johnson
Other modern era second round picks who weren’t HOF guys but pretty darn good
Middleton (sorry guys)
Milsap
Arenas
The other Isaiah Thomas
Mark Price
Michael Redd
After that group you fall from guys who got some all star appearances to guys who were just pretty good pros
Boozer
Kukoc (would have been a lottery guy if not for contract stuff)
Korver
Van Exel
Hornacek
Cheeks
If you’re going undrafted players
Amusingly you have Udonis Haslem
Ben Wallace
Connie Hawkins
John Starks
Fred Vanvleet
Brad Miller
Regardless, Jokic has to be the greatest talent ID coup in NBA history
Edit: I’m doing Hawkins a disservice. ABA champ, multi-time allstar, HOF
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Undrafted Caleb Martin and Gabe Vincent: 13 points on 5 shots
Top 2 picks Jayson Tatum and Jaylen Brown: 13 points on 11 shots
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Lol of course Duncan just took Grant Williams off the bounce for a layup
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We always knew he was a rim attacker
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Duncan back on those Beilein back cuts 
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Duncan what is this
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That was a beautiful possession on the Vincent 3
Oh wow that Duncan to Bam alley oop.
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Duncan the facilitator!
He’s in his bag
Vincent & Martin: 20 on 9 shots
Tatum & Brown: 17 on 16 shots
I did some Googling:
HOF’ers (that we haven’t mentioned) taken in the 3rd round or later:
George Gervin was a 3rd round pick, but it was #40 overall.
Artis Gilmore 7th round, #117 overall.
Dan Issel 8th round, #121 overall. Issel was drafted by the Pistons but went to the ABA. I’m not sure if that is why he was taken so late.
Yeah the ABA made things weird then. I don’t know but I’d think Issel was probably linked to them? He was two time all American at UK, I assume he was highly valued
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