For that era? Not really. Those good Knicks teams were about toughness not hitting efficient three pointers. The game has changed so much. Guys like Mason and Oakley would be forced to develop a reliable three point shot nowadays.
And in that era, SGs needed to be able to defend Jordan by being physical and be able to chase Miller around the court.
Would love to see Mason beat the shit out of Draymond.
None of them compare, actually:
Tony Battie (not battle), was an underachieving 5th overall pick, but did play for 14 seasons and 800 + games, scoring over 5000 pts
Jonathan Bender, was a straight from high school player who lost 4 seasons to injury. Still, he played in 262 games across 8 seasons and scored almost 1500 pts.
Nikoloz Tskitishvili is closest to Kenny Green implosion. ALSO a 5th overall pick, he played 172 games across 4 seasons and had just over 500 pts.
Kenny Green, 12 overall pick, 60 total games, barely 2 seasons (he was cut in his 2nd season) and 265 pts.
To add insult to injury, he didn't even score a huge contract to live off of - preceding the modern era by a season or two, Kenny Green made $262,000 playing in the NBA despite being a lottery pick. Crazy.
Oh yeah. I’d love to see that 93-94 Knicks team vs. current teams just for curiosity’s sake. Draymond would have been a great 90s player. I still think he’s Rick Mahorn’s love child.
Lebron would be a totally different player if he had played in that era. I still think he'd be great obviously, but there's no way he'd have the ball in his hands as much.
Big Lonnie Wilcots
Green was not a lottery pick. The Bullets made the playoffs in 1985. There were only 7 teams in the lottery that year, and Green went 12th. This was the first draft lottery, and launched the Ewing/Knicks conspiracy theory.
Chris Washburn went #3 overall the following year, and has a legitimate claim to worst lottery pick among players who were actually lottery picks. Alexsander Radojevic (#12 in 1999) notched an impressive 15 career games played. Fran Vazquez (#11 in '05) apparently never played.