Top 15 NBA Players Drafted Since 2010

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6. Damian Lillard
Draft: 2010
Pick: 6th overall
College: Weber State

Damian Lillard is one of the best small-college NBA players we’ve seen in come into the league in a good while. Right off the bat Lillard showed he was going to be a star in this league. Lillard won NBA Rookie of the Year over the likes of Anthony Davis and Bradley Beal after putting up 19 points and 6.5 assists per game in his first season with the Portland Trail Blazers.

His sophomore season was even better, and the Trail Blazers were even better to go with it. Lillard scored 20.7 points per game and saw his 3PT% rise to 39.4% as Portland won over 50 games and reached the playoffs for the first time since Brandon Roy’s retirement. Lillard averaged 22.9 points 6.5 assists and five assists in 11 playoff games that year, including the famous buzzer beating three pointer that ended Portland’s series with the Houston Rockets in six games. Portland would lose in five games to the eventual champion San Antonio Spurs in the second round.

Portland would get a beat down from the Memphis Grizzlies this season in the playoffs; despite Lillard averaging 21 points in the series, he threw up an absolute duck shooting 16.1% from three in the five game series. Field goal percentage is one of those things that Lillard will have to improve on if he wants to be a serious star at the point guard position. Lillard is already an elite scorer in the NBA, but we will see how Lillard plays being the unquestioned leader of a team beginning a rebuild.