The Denver Nuggets are an American professional basketball team based in Denver, Colorado. The Nuggets compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member club of the league's Western Conference Northwest Division. The team was founded as the Denver Larks in 1967 as a charter franchise of the American Basketball Association (ABA), but changed its name to Rockets before the first season. It changed its name again to the Nuggets in 1974. The team joined the NBA in 1976 after the ABA–NBA merger. They first participated in the NBA draft in 1977.
Selections Year Pick Overall Player Nationality College/High School/Club 1977 1 9 North Carolina 1977 1 21 Oral Roberts 1977 3 65 UNLV 1977 5 109 Ole Miss 1977 6 130 Massachusetts 1977 7 148 Alabama State 1977 8 169 Florida 1978 1 17 Wake Forest 1978 1 21 Kansas State 1978 3 46 Rutgers 1978 5 106 Texas–Pan American 1978 6 127 Columbus (GA) 1978 7 148 South Carolina 1978 8 166 Colorado 1978 9 183 Air Force 1978 10 198 Arizona 1979 2 30 DePaul 1979 5 102 Louisville 1979 6 122 Marquette 1979 7 144 Creighton 1979 8 162 Denver 1979 9 179 Colorado 1980 1 5 Jacksonville 1980 1 23 Indiana State 1980 2 41 Seattle 1980 3 47 Arizona State 1980 3 48 Cincinnati 1980 3 51 Old Dominion 1980 4 73 Pittsburgh 1980 5 97 Texas State 1980 6 119 Oklahoma City 1980 7 143 Vanderbilt 1980 9 184 South Carolina 1980 10 202 Regis University 1981 2 34 Texas–Pan American 1981 5 101 LSU 1981 6 124 Denver 1981 7 147 Maryland 1981 8 169 St. John's (NY) 1981 9 191 Austin Peay State 1981 10 211 Potsdam State 1982 1 19 Arizona State 1982 3 62 Pepperdine 1982 4 73 Louisiana-Lafayette 1982 5 109 Santa Clara 1982 6 131 North Carolina 1982 7 153 North Carolina 1982 8 178 UAB 1982 9 200 UCLA 1982 10 220 Niagara 1983 9 184 South Carolina 1983 1 15 LSU 1983 2 37 St. John's (NY) 1983 3 61 Oklahoma 1983 4 83 UC Santa Barbara 1983 5 107 North Carolina 1983 6 129 Murray State 1983 7 153 Catawba (SC) 1983 8 175 Davidson 1983 9 198 Catawba (SC) 1983 10 218 Catawba (SC) 1984 2 42 Tennessee-Chattanooga 1984 4 79 Calgary (Canada) 1984 5 103 Missouri 1984 6 131 Tennessee 1984 7 149 Catawba (SC) 1984 8 171 Texas Austin 1984 9 194 North Carolina 1984 10 220 Xavier (Ohio) 1985 1 15 Oregon 1985 2 43 Iowa State 1985 4 89 Arizona 1985 5 112 Texas A&M 1985 6 135 Harvard 1985 7 158 Arizona 1986 1 16 St. Joseph's (NY) 1986 1 18 Duke 1986 2 41 Jacksonville 1986 3 64 LSU 1986 4 87 San Diego State 1986 5 110 Eastern Illinois 1986 6 133 Pepperdine 1986 7 156 McNeese State 1987 2 31 Loyola Chicago 1987 3 54 Iowa State 1987 4 77 Marquette 1987 5 100 New Orleans 1987 6 123 New Mexico 1987 7 146 Hampton 1987 7 156 North Carolina 1988 1 23 Pittsburgh 1988 2 43 Purdue 1988 2 47 Florida 1988 3 66 Memphis 1989 1 15 Stanford 1989 2 42 McNeese State 1989 2 47 UAB 1990 1 3 LSU 1990 2 42 Illinois 1991 1 4 Georgetown University 1991 1 8 Temple 1992 1 5 Notre Dame 1992 1 13 Virginia 1992 2 46 St. John's (NY) 1993 1 9 Wake Forest 1993 2 43 Utah 1994 1 13 Michigan 1995 1 15 Oregon State 1995 2 44 Fresno State 1996 1 23 PAOK Thessaloniki (Greece) 1996 2 37 North Carolina 1997 1 5 Texas Tech 1997 2 32 CSU Long Beach 1997 2 41 Villanova 1998 1 3 Kansas 1998 1 23 Nebraska 1998 2 54 Fresno State 1998 2 55 Iowa 1999 1 18 Xavier (Ohio) 1999 2 33 Fresno State 1999 2 41 California 2000 1 26 Auburn 2000 2 53 Northern Arizona 2001 2 46 St. Jude Educational Institute (Montgomery, AL) 2002 1 5 Benetton Treviso (Italy) 2002 1 25 Illinois 2002 2 33 Tennessee 2003 1 3 Syracuse 2003 2 46 Virtus Pallacanestro Bologna (Italy) 2004 1 20 St. Joseph's (PA) 2005 1 20 North Carolina State 2005 1 22 Georgia Tech 2005 2 52 Real Madrid Baloncesto (Spain) 2006 2 49 California 2009 2 34 Real Madrid Baloncesto (Spain) 2011 1 22 Morehead State 2012 1 20 Poitiers Basket 86 (France) 2012 2 38 Baylor 2012 2 50 Banvit B.K. (Turkey) 2013 1 27 Cholet Basket (France) 2014 1 11 Creighton 2014 2 41 KK Mega Basket (Serbia) 2014 2 56 Iowa 2015 1 7 Guangdong Southern Tigers (China) 2015 2 57 Baloncesto Sevilla (Spain) 2016 1 7 Kentucky 2016 1 15 CB Estudiantes (Spain) 2016 1 19 Florida State 2016 2 53 Le Mans Sarthe Basket (France) 2016 2 56 Connecticut 2017 1 11 Louisville 2017 2 49 KK Mega Basket (Serbia) 2017 2 51 Iowa State 2018 1 14 Missouri 2018 2 43 Maryland 2018 2 58 UCLA 2020 1 22 Arizona 2021 1 26 VCU 2022 1 21 Kansas2023240Maxwell LewisPepperdine2024128Ryan DunnVirginia
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References General Denver Nuggets' All-time Draft Choices at NBA.com Denver Nuggets Draft Register at Basketball-Reference.com
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