The Portland Trail Blazers locked in the seventh pick in last week’s draft lottery, a far cry from the cream of this year’s class.
Now, Blazer fans now have to resign themselves to the fact that General Manager Joe Cronin will be using the mid-lottery pick as his primary asset in improving the roster.
But while the pick is not where we’d all hoped it would be, let’s push forward and look back at what kind of talent the pick has yielded over the past 25 years.
Below are the top seven seventh picks of the past 27 years.