Welcome to the 2013 NBA draft.

For the final time in his historic tenure, David Stern lorded over the evening ceremony.

Before walking onto the stage, Stern stood with the European teenager and patiently practice the pronunciation of his name.

Yanis.

Ditto gumbo.

They call Yanis attendant Campo simply the greatest draft story ever told from the watch pod.

This is the honest draft.

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MBA's 30 teams often spend several years evaluating young players before they ever become eligible to enter the league's draft.

Late in 2012, front offices began toe learn of the existence of Yannis Lieutenant coupon.

I could remember the day extremely clearly because at that time Jeff Weltman was working with me in Milwaukee and I remember Jeff saying, Hey, John, there's a young player in Athens that's really gathering a lot of attention right now.

We should probably go see him.

You heard his name and there wasn't much film.

What you could find was really grainy, but was certainly someone that was intriguing.

I was improving.

I was getting I was getting better.

I would always wanted to play.

Maybe.

Would you get nervous when they would tell you there were NBA scouts?

Executives in the stands?

Yeah, the first time I was nervous.

Second time I was nervous.

Then I was like, Okay, this is what it is.

I'm just gonna keep doing my thing.

Yeah, me, too.

The kid walks out.

It's like, Wow, he's bigger than you realize and how big his hands are.

Wow, like stroke doesn't look that bad.

I got a phone call and they called me and said, We have the next Magic Johnson.

As the draft approached through Atlanta Hawks became increasingly obsessive in clandestine and the pursuit of Yannas.

The Hawks committed to choosing a 10 a Koopa with their first available pick on draft night, and on Janice's trip to New York, there would be a stop.

Atlanta and the Hawks didn't want anyone in the world to know.

They told me to go by myself like, No, no way I'm going with my brother.

He walked into the arena was a dark on the joy that he had and the excitement.

The energy that he walked in there with was like, you know.

Wow, this is gonna be my life.

I'm gonna play in places like this.

I'm gonna be here, living in America, playing in the best league in the world.

His eyes were almost water.

The visit couldn't have gone any better.

Onley One question remains Would Yanis attendant Coop Oh, make it to the Atlanta Hawks on draft night.

Atlanta owned two picks behind Milwaukee at 15 with the first pick, the Cleveland Cavaliers.

Select Anthony Bennett.

Victor Oladipo, Nerlens Noel.

He kept falling and looked like it was gonna work out and get to us.

Trey Burke, Steven Adams.

Way heard early on when Milwaukee was on the clock.

That that's where that around take and didn't want to believe it with the 15th pick is maybe, you know this is it.

This is it.

The Milwaukee Bucks select.

I'm like, No, it is until I hear my name.

You know, Yannas.

Ditto gumbo.

Everything is like slow motion walking down the stairs.

And I'm like, That's the moment my life changed.

The whole room just was flat, including me.

The emotion and the energy out in that room was crushed.

Yeah, for more on this Let's welcome in ESPN.

Senior MBA insider Adrian Ward Janowski.

His three part Siris on Janice's rise to prominence is available now on his podcast.

The Woes pod.

Adrian, What made Yannis is selection of 15 in the 2013 draft so unusual?

Well, consider the fact that in late June, when he, uh, is in the Barclays Center in Brooklyn 7.5 months earlier, there wasn't a team in the n b A who had ever heard of him.

He went from being completely off the global map to all of a sudden on the brink of the N b A lottery.

And the process leading up, uh, in those months is just one of the most unique, mysterious, enigmatic.

And, you know, we take the listener through that process.

Remember, this was a historically weak draft.

When you look back, the number one overall pick in this draft, Anthony Bennett in Cleveland and basketball fans remember how that turned out.

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