It's been nearly a decade since the Detroit Pistons drafted 18-year-old Serbian sensation Darko Milicic with the second pick of the 2003 draft.

Even though Detroit went on to win the NBA championship the following season, and the only first-round picks from that class still with their original franchises are Dwyane Wade and Nick Collison, fans continue to bemoan the Pistons' missed opportunity to draft Carmelo Anthony or Chris Bosh.

Don't worry, team president Joe Dumars also has regrets, calling the Milicic pick his biggest mistake during a sit-down interview with WDIV's Bernie Smilovitz.

Smilovitz pointed out that most NBA decision-makers would have taken Darko in that spot.

"Absolutely, but it was a mistake," Dumars said.

Before he was traded to the Orlando Magic in the middle of his third season, Milicic played in 96 games with the Pistons. He averaged just 1.6 points and 1.2 rebounds in those appearances.

Milicic is currently on his fifth NBA roster. In his third season with the Minnesota Timberwolves he is averaging 4.6 points and 3.3 rebounds, but has recently fallen out of the team's rotation.

The Milicic selection altered the way Dumars prepared for the NBA Draft going forward.

"All I said about that is that I'll never make that same mistake twice," Dumars said. "That's what you have you do in this business. Whatever mistakes you make, you have to go back, look at it, and see how you made that decision, why you made that decision, and then you have to make sure you never make that kind of mistake again."

According to Dumars, the team simply didn't do enough research on Milicic.

"We didn't have enough background on him before we made the pick. Now we go overboard with background."

The Pistons haven't had another draft pick as meaningful as the Milicic selection, but when the team has drafted in the top half of the first round, Dumars has done well, landing the team's three building blocks -- Rodney Stuckey, Greg Monroe and Brandon Knight.