| 1999 NBA draft | |
|---|---|
| General information | |
| Sport | Basketball |
| Date(s) | June 30, 1999 |
| Location | MCI Center (Washington, D.C.) |
| Network(s) | TNT |
| Overview | |
| 58 total selections in 2 rounds | |
| League | NBA |
| First selection | Elton Brand (Chicago Bulls) |
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.
| G | Guard | PG | Point guard | SG | Shooting guard | F | Forward | SF | Small forward | PF | Power forward | C | Center |
| ^ | Denotes player who has been inducted to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame |
| * | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-NBA Team |
| + | Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game |
| # | Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game |
| ~ | Denotes player who has been selected as Rookie of the Year |
These players eligible for the 1999 NBA draft were not selected but have played in the NBA.
| Player | Position | Nationality | School/club team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chris Andersen | C/PF |  United States | Blinn (So.) |
| Michael Batiste | PF/C | United States | Long Beach State (Sr.) |
| Raja Bell | SG |  United States Virgin Islands | FIU (Sr.) |
| Geno Carlisle | PG | United States | California (Sr.) |
| Maurice Carter | SG | United States | LSU (Sr.) |
| Jorge Garbajosa | PF |  Spain | TAU Cerámica (Spain) |
| Derek Hood | SF/PF | United States | Arkansas (Sr.) |
| Jermaine Jackson | SG | United States | Detroit (Sr.) |
| Harold Jamison | PF | United States | Clemson (Sr.) |
| Jason Miskiri | PG |  Guyana | George Mason (So.) |
| Boniface N'Dong | C |  Senegal | SpVgg Rattelsdorf (Germany) |
| Milt Palacio | SG |  Belize | Colorado State (Sr.) |
| Andy Panko | PF | United States | Lebanon Valley (Sr.) |
| Pablo Prigioni | PG |  Argentina | Obras Sanitarias (Argentina) |
| Eddie Robinson | SG/SF | United States | Central Oklahoma (Sr.) |
| Guy Rucker | C | United States | Iowa (Jr.) |
| Jamel Thomas | SG/SF | United States | Providence (Sr.) |
| Wayne Turner | PG | United States | Kentucky (Sr.) |
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. [3]
Ron Artest – F, St. John's (sophomore) William Avery – G, Duke (sophomore) Carl Boyd – G, California (junior) Elton Brand – F, Duke (sophomore) Baron Davis – G, UCLA (sophomore) Steve Francis – G, Maryland (junior) Dwayne Franklin – F, Shaw (sophomore) Dion Glover – G, Georgia Tech (sophomore) Richard Hamilton – G, Connecticut (junior) Rico Harris – F, Cal State Northridge (junior) Ben Hendricks – G, East Carolina (junior) Kendrick Johnson – G, San Jose State (freshman) Jumaine Jones – F, Georgia (sophomore) Shaun Kenney – G, Cleveland State (sophomore) Corey Maggette – G/F, Duke (freshman) Shawn Marion – F, UNLV (junior) Michael Maxwell – G, Western New Mexico (junior) Greg Minor – G, Cal State Northridge (junior) Lamar Odom – F, Rhode Island (sophomore)
Aleksandar Radojević – C, Barton CC (sophomore) Gene Shipley – F, San Jose CC (freshman) Albert White – G/F, Missouri (junior)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. [3]
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. [3]
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Nikola Dacevic – F, Limoges CSP (France)
Hrvoje Henjak – C, KK Split (Croatia)
Andrei Kirilenko – F, PBC CSKA Moscow (Russia) Josko Poljak – C, KK Split (Croatia)
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