What if the 2014 NBA Draft happened again? Redraft the class that let Nikola Jokic fall to the 41st pick, and see where Joel Embiid, Julius Randle and Zach LaVine land with a decade of hindsight.
How the 2014 draft really went, pick by pick through the first round.
The first round of the actual 2014 NBA draft: pick number, player and the team that drafted him.
The same picks, re-made with hindsight — and how far each player moves from where he actually went.
The first round of a 2014 NBA redraft: pick number, player, the team holding that pick, and where he actually went.
Up 40 placesUp 1 placeUp 4 placesUp 9 placesDown 1 placeDown 5 placesUp 18 placesDown 2 places
Up 30 places
Up 28 places
Up 35 placesUp 4 places
Up 32 places
Up 19 placesDown 1 placeUp 3 placesUp 13 placesUp 9 placesDown 8 placesUp 3 placesDown 9 placesDown 12 placesDown 21 placesNo change
Undrafted
Undrafted
Up 25 places
Up 15 placesDown 24 placesDown 21 places
Forty picks went by. Denver took him in the second round and left him in Serbia for a season. He has since won three MVPs and a championship, and led the league in both rebounds and assists in 2025-26. A forty-place rise, and the largest on any board here.
Philadelphia took him third knowing he would not play that season — a navicular fracture cost him his first two years entirely. He came back to win the scoring title in 2022, again in 2023, and the MVP alongside it.
The Lakers got one game out of him before a broken leg ended his rookie season. Three All-Star selections and a Most Improved Player award later, he is the class's third-best player and has never been anywhere near a bad pick.
Nineteen years old and a starter in seven college games, he went 13th to Minnesota. Twelve seasons later he has averaged better than twenty a game for his career and won the dunk contest twice before anyone had settled on what kind of player he was.
Orlando took him fourth and he has never made an All-Star team. He has never needed to: traded to Denver, he became the fourth man on a championship side and the one they hand the hardest defensive assignment to.
All thirty first-round picks went by, and eleven more after them. He is the first name on this board, three MVPs and a championship later. Forty places is the largest move on any redraft on this site, and it is not close.
The Cavaliers took Andrew Wiggins first overall and traded him that summer. He is sixth in this redraft — a perfectly good career, and five places below where the pick was spent. Cleveland won a title two years later anyway, with a player who was not in this draft at all.
Taking him third meant taking a centre who would not play for two years. Most teams cannot absorb that. Philadelphia could, because it was not trying to win yet — and got a two-time scoring champion and an MVP out of the patience.
The Magic took Aaron Gordon, who has a championship ring and has never been an All-Star. He barely moves in this redraft, which tells you the pick was sound. It also tells you what was still sitting there: the best player of the class went thirty-seven picks later.
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An NBA redraft is a tool that lets you redo a past NBA draft class using hindsight instead of pre-draft scouting reports. Instead of guessing who might be good, you're picking based on who actually was good, letting you rebuild the entire first round the way it "should have" gone.
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