List of first overall NBA draft picks

Quality:

List of first overall NBA draft picks - Wikimedia list article. Article “List of first overall NBA draft picks” in English Wikipedia has 70 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 149 references and 5 sections.

This article has the best quality in Chinese Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in the last month:

English Wikipedia:

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The 4528^th most popular in English Wikipedia in the last month.

Global Wikipedia:

The 8233^rd most popular in all topics in the last month.

In June 2025 the article “List of first overall NBA draft picks” was edited by 6 authors in English Wikipedia and written by 14 authors in all languages.

Since the creation of article “List of first overall NBA draft picks”, its content was written by 291 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 507 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

The article is cited 584 times in English Wikipedia and cited 2219 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1830 in September 2014
• Global: #9085 in June 2024

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #2946 in June 2017
• Global: #7116 in June 2023

There are 14 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Chinese (zh) NBA选秀状元列表		85
2	English (en) List of first overall NBA draft picks		70
3	Russian (ru) Список игроков, выбранных под первым номером драфта НБА		68.0241
4	Turkish (tr) NBA birinci sıra seçimleri listesi		66.5889
5	Swedish (sv) Lista över förstaval i NBA:s draft		65.8772
6	Armenian (hy) NBA դրաֆթի ժամանակ առաջին համարի ներքո ընտրված խաղացողների ցանկ		57.5489
7	Portuguese (pt) Lista das primeiras escolhas gerais no draft da NBA		57.3298
8	Hungarian (hu) Az NBA-drafton első helyen választott játékosok listája		56.2726
9	Ukrainian (uk) Список гравців, вибраних під першим номером на драфті НБА		55.5801
10	French (fr) Liste des premiers choix de la draft de la NBA		46.609

The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of first overall NBA draft picks		7 974 873
2	Chinese (zh) NBA选秀状元列表		877 693
3	French (fr) Liste des premiers choix de la draft de la NBA		230 273
4	German (de) Liste der Gesamtersten beim NBA Draft		143 350
5	Russian (ru) Список игроков, выбранных под первым номером драфта НБА		137 172
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista das primeiras escolhas gerais no draft da NBA		110 733
7	Japanese (ja) NBAドラフト全体1位指名選手		104 012
8	Turkish (tr) NBA birinci sıra seçimleri listesi		53 723
9	Catalan (ca) Primeres eleccions del draft de l'NBA		3 762
10	Estonian (et) NBA drafti esimeste valikute loend		2 414

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) List of first overall NBA draft picks		111 065
2	Chinese (zh) NBA选秀状元列表		10 271
3	Japanese (ja) NBAドラフト全体1位指名選手		4 342
4	French (fr) Liste des premiers choix de la draft de la NBA		1 968
5	Russian (ru) Список игроков, выбранных под первым номером драфта НБА		1 390
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista das primeiras escolhas gerais no draft da NBA		783
7	German (de) Liste der Gesamtersten beim NBA Draft		627
8	Turkish (tr) NBA birinci sıra seçimleri listesi		480
9	Ukrainian (uk) Список гравців, вибраних під першим номером на драфті НБА		56
10	Hungarian (hu) Az NBA-drafton első helyen választott játékosok listája		47

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of first overall NBA draft picks		291
2	French (fr) Liste des premiers choix de la draft de la NBA		45
3	Chinese (zh) NBA选秀状元列表		40
4	German (de) Liste der Gesamtersten beim NBA Draft		20
5	Russian (ru) Список игроков, выбранных под первым номером драфта НБА		20
6	Japanese (ja) NBAドラフト全体1位指名選手		17
7	Portuguese (pt) Lista das primeiras escolhas gerais no draft da NBA		15
8	Turkish (tr) NBA birinci sıra seçimleri listesi		15
9	Catalan (ca) Primeres eleccions del draft de l'NBA		13
10	Estonian (et) NBA drafti esimeste valikute loend		10

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) List of first overall NBA draft picks		6
2	Japanese (ja) NBAドラフト全体1位指名選手		2
3	Chinese (zh) NBA选秀状元列表		2
4	French (fr) Liste des premiers choix de la draft de la NBA		1
5	Hungarian (hu) Az NBA-drafton első helyen választott játékosok listája		1
6	Portuguese (pt) Lista das primeiras escolhas gerais no draft da NBA		1
7	Russian (ru) Список игроков, выбранных под первым номером драфта НБА		1
8	Catalan (ca) Primeres eleccions del draft de l'NBA		0
9	German (de) Liste der Gesamtersten beim NBA Draft		0
10	Estonian (et) NBA drafti esimeste valikute loend		0

The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

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