1999 NBA draft

Draft selections

Notable undrafted players

These players eligible for the 1999 NBA draft were not selected but have played in the NBA.

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

1. Bolch, Ben. (September 16, 2011). "We have World Peace: Ron Artest gets name change". Los Angeles Times.
2. Bowdler was born in the United States, but represents the Republic of Ireland internationally.
3. (August 4, 2007). "1999 Underclassmen".