| 1 | 1 | *~ | PF/C |  United Statessortname|Steve|Francis
Notable undrafted playersThese players eligible for the 1999 NBA draft were not selected but have played in the NBA.
| Player | Position | Nationality | School/club team | | C/PF | United Statessortname|Michael|Batiste
Early entrantsCollege underclassmenThis 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 would later withdraw their names from this year's draft, which left only 21 total college underclassmen for this year. The following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance.
- Ron Artest – F, St. John's
- William Avery – G, Duke
- Carl Boyd – G, California
- Elton Brand – F, Duke
- Baron Davis – G, UCLA
- Steve Francis – G, Maryland
- Dwayne Franklin – F, Shaw
- Dion Glover – G, Georgia Tech
- Richard Hamilton – G, Connecticut
- Rico Harris – F, Cal State Northridge
- Ben Hendricks – G, East Carolina
- Kendrick Johnson – G, San Jose State
- Jumaine Jones – F, Georgia
- Shaun Kenney – G, Cleveland State
- Corey Maggette – G/F, Duke
- Shawn Marion – F, UNLV
- Michael Maxwell – G, Western New Mexico
- Greg Minor – G, Cal State Northridge
- Lamar Odom – F, Rhode Island
- Aleksandar Radojević – C, Barton CC
- Gene Shipley – F, San Jose CC
- Albert White – G/F, Missouri
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.
International playersIn 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.
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