List of first overall NBA draft picks

The National Basketball Association’s first overall pick is that the player who’s selected first among all qualified draftees by a group during the yearly National Basketball Association (NBA) draft. The pick is awarded in most circumstances, that team had a losing record in the season. The staff with the first pick brings media attention, as does the player who is chosen with that pick.
First selections have won the NBA Most Valuable Player Award: Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (album six-time winner), Bill Walton, Magic Johnson (three-time winner), Hakeem Olajuwon, David Robinson, Shaquille O’Neal, Allen Iverson, Tim Duncan (two-time winner), LeBron James (four-time winner), and Derrick Rose (youngest winner).
Since the advent of the draft lottery in 1985, seven number one picks have won an NBA title. They’re Shaquille O’Neal David Robinson, Glenn Robinson, Tim Duncan, LeBron James, Andrew Bogut, and Kyrie Irving.
China’s Yao Ming (2002) and Italy’s Andrea Bargnani (2006) are the only two players without aggressive experience from the United States to be drafted first overall. Eleven other international players with U.S. college experience have been hailed overall–Mychal Thompson (Bahamas) in 1978, Hakeem Olajuwon (Nigeria) in 1984, Patrick Ewing (Jamaica) in 1985, Tim Duncan (U.S. Virgin Islands) in 1997, Michael Olowokandi (Nigeria) in 1998, Andrew Bogut (Australia) at 2005, Kyrie Irving (Australia) in 2011, Anthony Bennett (Canada) in 2013, Andrew Wiggins (Canada) in 2014, Ben Simmons (Australia) at 2016, and Deandre Ayton (Bahamas) in 2018. Duncan is an American citizen, but is considered an”international” player by the NBA because he was not born in one of the fifty states or the District of Columbia. Ewing had double Jamaican-American citizenship when he had been drafted and Irving[5] and Simmons[6] had dual Australian-American citizenship when they were drafted.
Note that the drafts between 1947 and 1949 were held by the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The Basketball Association of America became the National Basketball Association after murdering teams in the National Basketball League in the fall of 1949. Official NBA books contain the BAA Drafts as part of the draft history of the NBA.

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