Sentence examples for highest picks from inspiring English sources

Because of their success, the Spurs have not been eligible for the highest picks in the draft.

With so many of the highest picks flopping for mediocre teams, there's little surprise the majority of the best values at the position were found lower in the first round, where better clubs were able to find young quarterbacks that cost less, easing them in gradually.

Drafts in professional football and basketball reward the worst teams with the highest picks, an effort by the leagues to create parity from year to year.

Their previous highest pick was number two as they brought in Taylor Twellman.

Their highest pick in the last 10 years is Gallinari, who was drafted sixth in 2008.

Zunino was the No. 3 overall pick by the Seattle Mariners in the first-year player draft, the Gators' highest pick.

Draft picks (choices of top college players) are allocated based on records, with the worst team "earning" the highest pick in the subsequent draft.

Brown, a 6-7 swasgman, was taken 11th over all out of Okaloosa-Walton Community College in Florida, the highest pick ever out of a junior college.

Griffey, the first pick of the 1987 amateur draft, became the highest pick ever inducted.

He was drafted with the number 1 pick in the 1994 AFL Draft the first Dandenong player to be drafted with the highest pick.

"We thought we'd get higher picks," JOHN MARA said.