2010 NBA Redraft: Looking back at how things change with hindsight

#2 Pick: John Wall (Originally: Evan Turner)

All due respect to the Evan Turner, but this pick felt like a reach in the moment and looks even worse in hindsight. John Wall would still be a great fit here and may have helped the team back to the playoffs in short order. Turner helped lead the Sixers back to the postseason but imagining a younger John Wall play with Jrue Holiday, Andre Iguodala Louis Williams and Elton Brand would have been a lot of fun.

The Sixers might have passed on Wall given that the NBA at this time focused much more on positions and may have thought there was too much positional overlap with Holiday, Williams and Wall, but modern logic tells you this could not be further from the truth. Holiday has shown the ability to play as the off guard and was always a strong teammate. Williams thrived in his bench role.

John Wall throwing lobs to Iguodala would have been electric. If nothing else the excitement would have been much higher for a franchise. Turner used a great run in the Big 10 tournament to catapult himself this high in the draft, but John Wall was better.

If Wall goes here, it is likely the Process never happens. It is also likely Igoudola and Holiday do not move on in short order. The ramifications of one whiffed draft pick ignited the most notorious era of tanking in recent memory. John Wall doing the Dougie in its place would have been the perfect Philadelphia feel.

With the third pick in the 2010 NBA Redraft, the New Jersey Nets select…