By Bill Simmons
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Monday, June 27, 2005

Editor's note: This article appears in the July 4th issue of ESPN The Magazine. The most significant moment in NBA draft history doesn't involve Bowie, Kobe, KG or The Mailman's pink tie. During the tail end of 2003's edition, Hubie Brown described the ceiling of that night's European draftees with the phrase "tremendous upside potential." And, not to sound too much like James Lipton here, that was it. Nothing would ever be the same. Without knowing it, Hubie tapped into the strangest runni ...

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