LeBron James Reveals Shocking Draft Regret: “I Would’ve Pulled an Eli Manning” on Memphis Grizzlies Selection
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Serendipitously, the Cleveland Cavaliers won the No. 1 overall pick and the Akron, Ohio native went to his home area team.
Memphis ended up with the No. 13 selection and drafted Marcus Banks out of UNLV, then traded him to the Boston Celtics. (The Grizzlies actually won the No. 2 pick, but had to trade it to the Detroit Pistons as a condition of a 1997 trade that sent Otis Thorpe to Memphis. The Pistons selected Darko Milicic.)



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