NBA No. 1 picks
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NBA No. 1 picks
Order by the year each player went first overall. You place all 57 cards on one timeline, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
57
Cards
3
Lives per run
release years and dates
Ordered by
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How to play the NBA No. 1 picks timeline game
Every card names a player chosen first overall in the NBA draft, with the team that picked him printed below. You're putting them in order of draft year. The game opens with one pick on the timeline and its year showing. Each new card needs a gap. If you're right the year is revealed; if you're wrong the player still lands in his correct place, but you lose one of three lives.
Some cards are obvious legends; others belong to players remembered mostly for how their careers went wrong. Think about the draft, not the prime, since a star's rookie season came well before the years that made him famous. Teams that won the lottery more than once are spread across very different eras, so the team line narrows things less than you'd hope.
Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.
How players are doing
This deck has been played 93 times. An average run places 8.4 cards, and 74% of all placements land in the right spot. Nobody has placed every card yet.
The cards players get wrong most often:
- Joe Smith missed 75% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- LaRue Martin missed 70% of the time, usually by about 3 places
- Bob Lanier missed 61% of the time, usually by about 2 places
The safest card is Anthony Davis, placed right every time it has come up.
What's in the deck
Here are 28 of the 57 cards you might be dealt, with 29 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Elvin Hayes San Diego Rockets
- Bob Lanier Detroit Pistons
- LaRue Martin Portland Trail Blazers
- Bill Walton Portland Trail Blazers
- John Lucas Houston Rockets
- Mychal Thompson Portland Trail Blazers
- Joe Barry Carroll Golden State Warriors
- James Worthy Los Angeles Lakers
- Hakeem Olajuwon Houston Rockets
- Brad Daugherty Cleveland Cavaliers
- Danny Manning Los Angeles Clippers
- Derrick Coleman New Jersey Nets
- Shaquille O'Neal Orlando Magic
- Glenn Robinson Milwaukee Bucks
- Allen Iverson Philadelphia 76ers
- Michael Olowokandi Los Angeles Clippers
- Kenyon Martin New Jersey Nets
- Yao Ming Houston Rockets
- Dwight Howard Orlando Magic
- Andrea Bargnani Toronto Raptors
- Derrick Rose Chicago Bulls
- John Wall Washington Wizards
- Anthony Davis New Orleans Hornets
- Andrew Wiggins Cleveland Cavaliers
- Ben Simmons Philadelphia 76ers
- Deandre Ayton Phoenix Suns
- Anthony Edwards Minnesota Timberwolves
- Paolo Banchero Orlando Magic
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