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“I stand by that a hundred percent. We didn’t know what LeBron was going to become. If you look at the history of sports, the big man has always been taken first. You look at Olajuwon and Sam Bowie drafted over Michael Jordan. You look at Greg Oden drafted over Kevin Durant. Ninety-nine percent of the time, the big goes first. That’s just the way it is,” Jefferson said. “LeBron James might have been the number one prospect, but there’s just something about that size that is such a unicorn. So if you would have had that seven-foot-three monster at seventeen or eighteen, and LeBron James is seventeen or eighteen, now, mind you, because it’s Cleveland and they had the number one pick, let’s just say it wasn’t overall.”
