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#4 Nikoloz Tskitishvili
Dario Milicic might be a more famous bust considering the company of Hall of Famers he keeps among the top 5 picks within the 2003 NBA draft, but the trend of highly-coveted European big men failing to translate their game into the NBA was actually really started when the Denver Nuggets spent their #5 overall pick on the Georgian big man.
The Nuggets' front office had really never seen him play, which makes even lesser sense as the 7-footer only averaged 6.6 points and 1.8 rebounds per game through 11 games with Benetton Troviso. Skitishvili played for 4 NBA teams in 4 seasons before going back to European basketball. Bill Simmons claimed that Tskitishvili is "the worst-case scenario for any foreign pick" in the NBA, and I tend to agree with that notion.
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