1999 NBA draft
Basketball player selection
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::summary Basketball player selection ::
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 1999 NBA draft |
| sport | Basketball |
| date | June 30, 1999 |
| location | MCI Center (Washington, D.C.) |
| network | TNT |
| league | NBA |
| overall | 58 |
| rounds | 2 |
| first | Elton Brand (Chicago Bulls) |
| hofnum | {{Collapsible list |
| title | 1 |
| 1 | SG Manu Ginóbili}} |
| prev | 1998 |
| next | 2000 |
| :: |
| name = 1999 NBA draft | image = | caption = | logo = | logosize = | sport = Basketball | date = June 30, 1999 | location = MCI Center (Washington, D.C.) | network = TNT | league = NBA | teams = | overall = 58 | rounds = 2 | first = Elton Brand (Chicago Bulls) | hofnum = {{Collapsible list | title = 1 |1 = SG Manu Ginóbili}} | prev = 1998 | next = 2000 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 selections
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| G | Guard | PG | Point guard | SG | Shooting guard | F | Forward | SF | Small forward | PF | Power forward | C | Center |
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::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/75/Elton_Brand_10.jpg" caption="[[Elton Brand]] was selected 1st overall by the [[Chicago Bulls]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/17/Steve_Francis_cropped.jpg" caption="[[Steve Francis]] was selected 2nd overall by the [[Vancouver Grizzlies]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Baron_throwback_(cropped).jpg" caption="[[Baron Davis]] was selected 3rd overall by the [[Charlotte Hornets]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/da/Lipofskydotcom_Lamar_Odom-13052.jpg" caption="[[Lamar Odom]] was selected 4th overall by the [[Los Angeles Clippers]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/Wally_Szczerbiak_cropped_Milwaukee_Bucks_vs_Boston_Celtics_-_January_29th,_2006.jpg" caption="[[Wally Szczerbiak]] was selected 6th overall by the [[Minnesota Timberwolves]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/91/Rip_Hamilton_free_throw.jpg" caption="Richard Hamilton]] was selected 7th overall by the [[Washington Wizards]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/66/Shawn_Marion.jpg" caption="[[Shawn Marion]] was selected 9th overall by the [[Phoenix Suns]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/87/Jason_Terry_3.jpg" caption="[[Jason Terry]] was selected 10th overall by the [[Atlanta Hawks]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a1/Metta_World_Peace.jpg" caption="[[Metta Sandiford-Artest]] was selected 16th overall by the [[Chicago Bulls]]."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d2/Andrei_Kirilenko_in_2011.jpg" caption="[[Andrei Kirilenko]] was selected 24th overall by the [[Utah Jazz]] (didn't play in the NBA for the first 2 seasons (1999–2001) after being drafted)."] ::
::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Manu_Ginobili_2005.jpg" caption="[[Manu Ginóbili]] was selected 57th overall by the [[San Antonio Spurs]] (didn't play in the NBA for the first 3 seasons (1999–2002) after being drafted)."] ::
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Notable undrafted players
These players eligible for the 1999 NBA draft were not selected but have played in the NBA. ::data[format=table]
| Player | Position | Nationality | School/club team |
|---|---|---|---|
| C/PF | United States | Blinn (So.) | |
| PF/C | United States | Long Beach State (Sr.) | |
| SG | FIU (Sr.) | ||
| PG | United States | California (Sr.) | |
| SG | United States | LSU (Sr.) | |
| PF | TAU Cerámica (Spain) | ||
| SF/PF | United States | Arkansas (Sr.) | |
| SG | United States | Detroit (Sr.) | |
| PF | United States | Clemson (Sr.) | |
| PG | George Mason (So.) | ||
| C | SpVgg Rattelsdorf (Germany) | ||
| SG | Colorado State (Sr.) | ||
| PF | United States | Lebanon Valley (Sr.) | |
| PG | Obras Sanitarias (Argentina) | ||
| SG/SF | United States | Central Oklahoma (Sr.) | |
| C | United States | Iowa (Jr.) | |
| SG/SF | United States | Providence (Sr.) | |
| PG | United States | Kentucky (Sr.) | |
| :: |
Early entrants
College underclassmen
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.
- USA Ron Artest – F, St. John's (sophomore)
- USA William Avery – G, Duke (sophomore)
- USA Carl Boyd – G, California (junior)
- USA Elton Brand – F, Duke (sophomore)
- USA Baron Davis – G, UCLA (sophomore)
- USA Steve Francis – G, Maryland (junior)
- USA Dwayne Franklin – F, Shaw (sophomore)
- USA Dion Glover – G, Georgia Tech (sophomore)
- USA Richard Hamilton – G, Connecticut (junior)
- USA Rico Harris – F, Cal State Northridge (junior)
- USA Ben Hendricks – G, East Carolina (junior)
- USA Kendrick Johnson – G, San Jose State (freshman)
- USA Jumaine Jones – F, Georgia (sophomore)
- USA Shaun Kenney – G, Cleveland State (sophomore)
- USA Corey Maggette – G/F, Duke (freshman)
- USA Shawn Marion – F, UNLV (junior)
- USA Michael Maxwell – G, Western New Mexico (junior)
- USA Greg Minor – G, Cal State Northridge (junior)
- USA Lamar Odom – F, Rhode Island (sophomore)
- BIH Aleksandar Radojević – C, Barton CC (sophomore)
- USA Gene Shipley – F, San Jose CC (freshman)
- USA Albert White – G/F, Missouri (junior)
High school players
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.
- USA Jonathan Bender – F, Picayune Memorial HS (Picayune, Mississippi)
- USA Leon Smith – F, King College Prep (Chicago, Illinois)
International players
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 Giovannoni 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.
- FR Yugoslavia Nikola Dacevic – F, Limoges CSP (France)
- CRO Hrvoje Henjak – C, KK Split (Croatia)
- RUS Andrei Kirilenko – F, PBC CSKA Moscow (Russia)
- CRO Josko Poljak – C, KK Split (Croatia)
Notes
References
References
- Bolch, Ben. (September 16, 2011). "We have World Peace: Ron Artest gets name change". Los Angeles Times.
- Bowdler was born in the United States, but represents the Republic of Ireland internationally.
- (August 4, 2007). "1999 Underclassmen".
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