NBA: The Greatest #1 Picks of All Time

2016 NBA Draft
2016 NBA Draft

4. Tim Duncan

Duncan celebrates
Duncan celebrates

With the pre-lottery position of pick 3, the San Antonio Spurs fell into a dream come true when they moved up two spaces in the 1997 NBA Draft to land Tim Duncan.

Tim Duncan is often overlooked in the list of greatest of all time largely due to, as his nickname of "The Big Fundamental" suggest, his style of play was very basic and to many fans boring as he was less focussed on being flashy and purely focussed on wanting to win as much as possible.

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When Spurs picked Duncan, they could never have imagined the heights he would go on to reach for their franchise, becoming the face of the Spurs for almost 20 years, winning 5 Championships along the way, along with 3 Finals MVP's and 2 regular seasons MVPs. A 5-1 finals record sees Duncan be the closest to equaling immortality and reaching Michael Jordan's famous 6-0 record.

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