2000 NBA draft

Draft selections

Notable undrafted players

These players were not selected in the 2000 NBA draft but have played at least one game in the NBA.

Early entrants

College underclassmen

Following last year's slight dip of underclassmen, entering the new millennium, this draft saw a total of 55 underclassmen declare for the NBA draft initially. However, for collegiate players, seven of the nineteen total players that ultimately withdrew their names would be collegiate players (with Joshua Cross from Southern Illinois University, Jason Kapono from UCLA, Brian Merriweather from the University of Texas Pan-American, Jeryl Sasser from Southern Methodist University, Kenny Satterfield from the University of Cincinnati, Karim Shabazz from Providence College, and Joe White from Texas A&M University being the collegiate players that withdrew their names). Overall, including the high schools and international players with the 26 college underclassmen, there were 36 total players that would be considered underclassmen. That being said, the following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance.

• USA Erick Barkley – G, St. John's (sophomore)
• USA Ernest Brown – C/F, Indian Hills CC (sophomore)
• USA Schea Cotton – G, Alabama (sophomore)
• USA Jamal Crawford – G, Michigan (freshman)
• USA Kaniel Dickens – F, Idaho (junior)
• USA Keyon Dooling – G, Missouri (sophomore)
• USA Khalid El-Amin – G, Connecticut (junior)
• USA Steve Eldridge – C, Henderson State (junior)
• USA Marcus Fizer – F, Iowa State (junior)
• USA Donnell Harvey – F, Florida (freshman)
• USA Cory Hightower – G/F, Indian Hills CC (sophomore)
• USA Rashaad Hines – G, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi (junior)
• USA Jimmie Hunter – G, Life (sophomore)
• USA DerMarr Johnson – F/G, Cincinnati (freshman)
• USA Mark Karcher – F, Temple (junior)
• USA Andre Mahorn – F, Utah State (junior)
• USA Paul McPherson – G, DePaul (junior)
• USA Chris Mihm – C, Texas (junior)
• USA Mike Miller – F, Florida (sophomore)
• FRA Jérôme Moïso – F, UCLA (sophomore)
• USA Joel Przybilla – C, Minnesota (sophomore)
• USA Michael Redd – G, Ohio State (junior)
• USA Quentin Richardson – G, DePaul (sophomore)
• USA JaRon Rush – F, UCLA (sophomore)
• USA Stromile Swift – F, LSU (sophomore)
• USA Derrick Worrell – F, Pittsburgh (junior)

High school players

This would be the sixth straight year in a row where players coming directly from high school can declare entry into the NBA draft after previously only allowing it one time back in 1975. The following high school players successfully applied for early draft entrance.

• USA Darius Miles – F, East St. Louis Senior High School (East St. Louis, Illinois)
• USA DeShawn Stevenson – G, Washington Union High School (Easton, California)

International players

In addition to the players below, twelve total international players from all over the world had previously declared entry for this year's draft, but ultimately removed their names from the listing for one reason or another. This year saw the likes of Yugoslavian-Italian Sani Bečirovič of the KK Union Olimpija, the Yugoslavian born Goran Ćakić of the KK Beobanka, the Greek born Antonis Fotsis of the Panathinaikos B.C., the Yugoslavian born Vlado Ilievski of the KK Partizan Belgrade, the Qatari born Yaseen Mahmood of the Al-Rayyan SC, the Turkish born Mehmet Okur of the Tofaş Spor Kulübü, the Greek-Russian born Lazaros Papadopoulos of the Iraklis Thessaloniki, the Turkish born Kaya Peker of the Pınar Karşıyaka, the Finnish born Teemu Rannikko of the Piiloset Turku, the Yugoslavian born Mladen Šekularac of the FMP Železnik, the Greek born Kostas Tsartsaris of the Peristeri B.C., and the Turkish born Kerem Tunçeri of the Efes Pilsen all initially declare their entry into the 2000 NBA draft, only to later withdraw from it for one reason or another. The following international players below, however, did successfully apply for early draft entrance.

• RUS Aleksey Savrasenko – C, Olympiacos (Greece)
• CRO Dalibor Bagarić – C, Benston Zagreb (Croatia)
• SLO Primož Brezec – C, Olimpija (Slovenia)
• GEO David Mushkudiani – F, Lukoil Academic (Bulgaria)
• FR Yugoslavia Stevan Nađfeji – F, Beobanka (FR Yugoslavia)
• NGR Olumide Oyedeji – F, DJK Würzburg (Germany)
• GRE Jake Tsakalidis – C, AEK (Greece)
• TUR Hedo Türkoğlu – F, Efes Pilsen (Turkey)

References

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