Applying 20-20 hindsight vision, the 2009 NBA Draft is most known for what the Minnesota Timberwolves did and didn’t do (hi! Jonny Flynn) and helping shift the league into what’s becoming a guard-driven NBA. But on draft night, the show was all about one man: the then-Oklahoma star one-and-done and unanimous number one pick, Blake Griffin.
Fast forward six years and the 2009 draft class is responsible for injecting the league with three undeniable superstars, in Los Angeles, Griffin, in Houston, James Harden, and in Golden State, Stephen Curry.