2004 NBA draft

Draft selections

Notable undrafted players

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

Early entrants

College underclassmen

After seeing a couple of years where they missed the previous year of 75 underclassmen testing their early entry in 2001, this year saw an at the time record-high 92 players declare their initial entry into this year's draft. However, this year also saw an at the time record high 52 underclassmen from college, overseas, or high school withdraw their names from the draft, thus leaving only 40 total underclassmen officially declaring their entry into the NBA draft. The following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance.

• USA Chris Acker – G, Chaminade (sophomore)
• USA Trevor Ariza – G/F, UCLA (freshman)
• USA Brandon Bender – F, Robert Morris (junior)
• USA Evan Burns – F, San Diego State (freshman)
• USA Josh Childress – F/G, Stanford (junior)
• USA Cortez Davis – F, Midland College (sophomore)
• BRI Luol Deng – F, Duke (freshman)
• BRI/USA Ben Gordon – G, Connecticut (junior)
• USA Devin Harris – G, Wisconsin (junior)
• USA David Harrison – C, Colorado (junior)
• USA JaQuan Hart – G, Eastern Michigan (junior)
• USA Kris Humphries – F, Minnesota (freshman)
• NGR Sani Ibrahim – F, Gulf Coast CC (sophomore)
• USA Andre Iguodala – F, Arizona (sophomore)
• USA Kevin Martin – G, Western Carolina (junior)
• USA Emeka Okafor – F, Connecticut (junior)
• USA Randy Orr – C, Georgia Perimeter (sophomore)
• USA Jason Parker – F, Chipola (junior)
• USA Donta Smith – F/G, Southeastern Illinois (sophomore)
• USA Kirk Snyder – G, Nevada (junior)
• USA Harvey Thomas – F, Baylor (junior)
• USA Delonte West – G, St. Joseph's (junior)

High school players

This would be the tenth 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. It would also be famous for marking the third (and currently final) time that a #1 pick was selected directly out of high school. This year also saw players like LaMarcus Aldridge, Jermaine Bell, Ivan Chiriaev, and Maurice Shaw all initially declare entry for this year's draft, but ultimately withdraw from it and decide to enter college instead. The following high school players successfully applied for early draft entrance.

• USA Jackie Butler – F, Coastal Christian Academy (Virginia Beach, Virginia)
• USA Dwight Howard – C, Southwest Atlanta Christian Academy (Atlanta, Georgia)
• USA Al Jefferson – F, Prentiss HS (Prentiss, Mississippi)
• USA Shaun Livingston – G, Peoria HS (Peoria, Illinois)
• USA J. R. Smith – G, St. Benedict's Prep (Newark, New Jersey)
• USA Josh Smith – F, Oak Hill Academy (Mouth of Wilson, Virginia)
• USA Robert Swift – C, Bakersfield HS (Bakersfield, California)
• USA Dorell Wright – G/F, South Kent (South Kent, Connecticut)
• USA Sebastian Telfair – G, Lincoln HS (Brooklyn, New York)

International players

The following international players successfully applied for early draft entrance.

• LAT Andris Biedriņš – F, Skonto (Latvia)
• IRN Hamed Haddadi – C, Paykan Tehran (Iran)
• LIT Arturas Kaubrys – F, Neptūnas (Lithuania)
• RUS Sergei Monia – G/F, CSKA Moscow (Russia)
• RUS Pavel Podkolzin – C, Metis Varese (Italy)
• PRI Peter John Ramos – C, Criollos de Caguas (Puerto Rico)
• IRN Jaber Rouzbahani – C, Zob Ahan Isfahan (Iran)
• SKO Ha Seung-jin – C, Yonsei University (South Korea)
• CAN Jerry Sokoloski – C, Father Henry Carr Catholic Secondary (Canada)
• SLO Sasha Vujačić – G, Snaidero Udine (Italy)

Automatically eligible entrants

Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They have no remaining college eligibility.
• If they graduated from high school in the U.S., but did not enroll in a U.S. college or university, four years have passed since their high school class graduated.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA, anywhere in the world, and have played under the contract.

Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They are at least 22 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In term of dates players born on or before December 31, 1982, were automatically eligible for the 2004 draft.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA within the United States, and have played under that contract.

References

References

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35. (August 1, 2002}}
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36. (December 19, 2002}}
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