Philadelphia 76ers Draft Shawn Bradley (No. 2 Overall 1993)

June 30, 1993 - Shawn Bradley took a circuitous path to the NBA. After averaging 25 points, 17 rebounds, and 9 blocks as a high school senior, the 7-foot-6 center enrolled at Brigham Young University (BYU) in Provo, Utah. There, he averaged 14.8 points and 7.7 rebounds while setting the NCAA freshman record for blocks (177) and blocks per game (5.2). Following his freshman year (the 1990-91 college season), Bradley stepped away from collegiate basketball and instead embarked on a two-year mission trip to Australia. So it was with that knowledge—that he hadn't played competitively at a high level in two years—that the 76ers snagged Bradley with the second overall pick in '93. While never achieving stardom on the level of fellow top-5 picks Chris Webber, Penny Hardaway, and Jamal Mashburn, Bradley was still able to carve out a 12-year NBA career that saw him rack up 2,119 blocks, good for 14th all-time in NBA history (just 18 blocks behind Ben Wallace). After retiring in 2005, Bradley returned to Utah, his home state, where he once had his giant, oversized mountain bike stolen off his property. But then it was found. https://www.deseret.com/2011/11/10/20389469/dumbfounded-shawn-bradley-wonders-why-anyone-would-steal-custom-made-bike#shawn-bradley-shown-here-riding-his-custom-made-bicycle-that-was-stolen-during-a-recent-burglary