1999 NBA draft
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox sports draft The 1999 NBA draft was held on June 30, 1999, at the MCI Center (now Capital One Arena) in Washington, D.C. It was the first draft in which four players from the same college were picked in the first round, with Elton Brand (1st selection), Trajan Langdon (11th), Corey Maggette (13th) and William Avery (14th) being selected out of Duke University. It is widely viewed as one of the best draft classes, with a total of nine future NBA All-Stars being chosen, as well as three winners of the NBA Sixth Man of the Year Award—Manu Ginóbili, Jason Terry, and Lamar Odom. Six of the top nine picks were NBA All-Stars. Pablo Prigioni, who was eligible for selection but went undrafted, eventually debuted in the 2012–2013 season as the oldest rookie in NBA history at age 35.
Draft selectionsEdit
| G | Guard | PG | Point guard | SG | Shooting guard | F | Forward | SF | Small forward | PF | Power forward | C | Center |
Notable undrafted playersEdit
Template:Further These players eligible for the 1999 NBA draft were not selected but have played in the NBA.
Early entrantsEdit
College underclassmenEdit
This year would see a step down in the number of overall underclassmen entering the NBA draft. After seeing 40 initial entries the last two years, this year only saw 39 total initial entries at hand. Not only that, but twelve of the players that had declared entry (with six of the actual collegiate players being Harold Arceneaux from Weber State University, Edwin Daniels from UNLV, DeeAndre Hulett from the College of the Sequoias, Lamont Long from the University of New Mexico, Jamaal Magloire from the University of Kentucky, and Tyron Triplett from Tallahassee Community College) would later withdraw their names from this year's draft, which left only 21 total college underclassmen for this year (27 if you include the two high school players and four international players that stayed in this year's draft). The following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance.<ref name=tdr>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
- Template:Flagicon Ron Artest – F, St. John's (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon William Avery – G, Duke (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Carl Boyd – G, California (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Elton Brand – F, Duke (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Baron Davis – G, UCLA (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Steve Francis – G, Maryland (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Dwayne Franklin – F, Shaw (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Dion Glover – G, Georgia Tech (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Richard Hamilton – G, Connecticut (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Rico Harris – F, Cal State Northridge (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Ben Hendricks – G, East Carolina (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Kendrick Johnson – G, San Jose State (freshman)
- Template:Flagicon Jumaine Jones – F, Georgia (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Shaun Kenney – G, Cleveland State (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Corey Maggette – G/F, Duke (freshman)
- Template:Flagicon Shawn Marion – F, UNLV (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Michael Maxwell – G, Western New Mexico (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Greg Minor – G, Cal State Northridge (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Lamar Odom – F, Rhode Island (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Aleksandar Radojević – C, Barton CC (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Gene Shipley – F, San Jose CC (freshman)
- Template:Flagicon Albert White – G/F, Missouri (junior)
High school playersEdit
This would be the fifth straight year in a row where at least one high school player would declare their entry into the NBA draft directly out of high school after previously only allowing it one time back in 1975. The following high school players successfully applied for early draft entrance.<ref name=tdr />
- Template:Flagicon Jonathan Bender – F, Picayune Memorial HS (Picayune, Mississippi)
- Template:Flagicon Leon Smith – F, King College Prep (Chicago, Illinois)
International playersEdit
In addition to the players below, the likes of Greece's Georgios Diamantopoulos of the Papagou B.C., Greece's Antonis Fotsis of the Panathinaikos B.C., Brazil's Guilherme Joanoni of the Esporte Clube Pinheiros, the Nigerian born Olumide Oyedeji of Germany's DJK Würzburg, Yugoslavia's Igor Rakočević of the KK Crvena Zvezda, and Greece's Kostas Tsartsaris of the Near East B.C. also initially declared entry for this year's draft at first, but those six players would later withdraw their names from this year's draft altogether. However, the following international players did successfully apply for early draft entrance.<ref name=tdr />
- Template:Flagicon Nikola Dacevic – F, Limoges CSP (France)
- Template:Flagicon Hrvoje Henjak – C, KK Split (Croatia)
- Template:Flagicon Andrei Kirilenko – F, PBC CSKA Moscow (Russia)
- Template:Flagicon Josko Poljak – C, KK Split (Croatia)
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External linksEdit
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- 1999 NBA Draft at Basketball-Reference.com
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