2000 NBA draft

The NBA season|2000] NBA draft was held on June 28, 2000, at the Target Center in Minneapolis. It was the last draft held at the home arena of an NBA team until 2011; the following and subsequent drafts all took place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City. As of 2025, it is also the last NBA draft where a college senior was the number-one overall selection, and, along with the 1951 NBA Draft, one of only two drafts with no Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame players.
The 2000 draft class is considered the worst in NBA history. Few of its draftees would enjoy extended careers in the league. Just three of them—top pick Kenyon Martin, first-round selection Jamaal Magloire and second-round pick Michael Redd -- ever played in an NBA All-Star Game. Each of the three made their lone All-Star appearance in 2004 [NBA All-Star Game|2004]. The three cumulative All-Star appearances marks the lowest cumulative appearances since the 1952 NBA draft. Redd was the lone player from this draft to ever be chosen for an All-NBA Team. Only three players in this draft class won a major end-of-season award in their careers: Hedo Türkoğlu was named Most Improved Player in 2008, Mike Miller won the NBA Rookie of the Year and NBA Sixth Man of the Year awards in 2001 and 2006 respectively, and Jamal Crawford was awarded the NBA Sixth Man of the Year three times in 2010, 2014 and 2016.
Sports Illustrated named this entire draft class the sixth biggest bust of the modern era – making it the only draft class among the site's top 20 list. Just before the 2009 draft, ESPN.com columnist David Schoenfield graded all of the drafts since the institution of the draft lottery in 1985, and the only draft to which he gave the lowest possible grade of 'F' was the 2000 draft. Using the WARP metric, the 2000 NBA draft class collectively produced at a rate of 17.3 wins worse than a group of "average replacement players", effectively making this draft class the only one in NBA history to leave the league's talent pool worse than it had been before.
Eight of the players selected in this draft never played in an NBA game in their professional basketball careers. Both of the players drafted by the San Antonio Spurs are among this group.
The final active player remaining from this class was Jamal Crawford, who retired from the NBA following the 2020 season.

Draft selections

Guard

Point guard

Round

Pick

Player

Position

Nationality

Team

School/club team

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United Statessortname|Stromile|Swift

Notable undrafted players

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

Player

Position

Nationality

School/club team

United Statessortname|Desmond|Ferguson

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. 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.

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

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.

Darius Miles – F, East St. Louis Senior High School
DeShawn Stevenson – G, Washington Union High School

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.