Milwaukee Bucks: 15 best draft picks in franchise history

7. Vin Baker

While personal struggles ultimately played a major role in detracting from the overall output of Vin Baker’s career, there can be little argument to the positives of his selection by the Bucks in 1993.

At the top end of the draft, Chris Webber, Shawn Bradley and Penny Hardaway drew plenty of interest, but the options were something of a mixed bag beyond that leaving little in terms of safe selections for Milwaukee at No. 8.

The likes of Isaiah Rider, Calbert Cheaney and Bobby Hurley went on to have limited NBA careers having been selected in the three picks prior to Vin Baker’s selection by the Bucks eighth overall.

Baker hit the ground running as a polished scorer and a rebounding machine with the Bucks, becoming a central focus of the team’s rebuilding effort immediately. In that first season, Baker made the All-Rookie First Team, and he would eventually make three All-Star appearances in his four seasons in Milwaukee.

Baker was traded to Seattle in the summer of 1997 at a point when the Bucks had since added intriguing young pieces like Glenn Robinson and Ray Allen, but that does little to undermine the value of his selection in a draft that held limited All-Star talent beyond its first couple of spots.