The 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 (through 2010) all took place at The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City (though Madison Square Garden itself is the home of the New York Knicks, they do not play in the theater). This is also the last NBA draft to use a "rotating host" format similar to the NHL entry draft and NFL draft, in which different NBA cities hosted the draft. In addition, is the last draft held outside of New York City or its metropolitan area. 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 (and the most recent) drafts with no Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame players (excluding drafts with players not yet eligible).
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 (19th overall) and second-round pick Michael Redd (43rd overall) -- ever played in an NBA All-Star Game. Each of the three made their lone All-Star appearance in 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 (his sole appearance was on the third team in 2004). 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 (as opposed to individual players) 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 (wins above replacement player) 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 (Chris Carrawell and Cory Hightower) 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
G Guard PG Point guard SG Shooting guard F Forward SF Small forward PF Power forward C Center
Round Pick Player Position Nationality Team School/club team 1 1 + PF New Jersey Nets Cincinnati (Sr.) 1 2 PF/C Vancouver Grizzlies LSU (So.) 1 3 SF/PF Los Angeles ClippersEast St. Louis HS (Illinois) 1 4 PF/SF Chicago Bulls Iowa State (Jr.) 1 5 ~ SF/SG Orlando Magic (from Golden State) Florida (So.) 1 6 SG/SF Atlanta Hawks Cincinnati (Fr.) 1 7 C/PF Chicago Bulls (from Washington via Golden State; traded to Cleveland) Texas (Jr.) 1 8 SG Cleveland Cavaliers (traded to Chicago) Michigan (Fr.) 1 9 C Houston Rockets (traded to Milwaukee for Jason Collier and a future first-round pick) Minnesota (So.) 1 10 SG Orlando Magic (from Denver, traded to L.A. Clippers with Corey Maggette, Derek Strong and cash for a future first-round pick) Missouri (So.) 1 11 PF Boston Celtics UCLA (So.) 1 12 PF/C Dallas Mavericks Syracuse (Sr.) 1 13 SG Orlando Magic (traded to Dallas for a future first-round pick and cash) Fresno State (Sr.) 1 14 PG Detroit Pistons Michigan State (Sr.) 1 15 C Milwaukee Bucks (traded with future first-round pick to Houston for Joel Przybilla) Georgia Tech (Sr.) 1 16 SF/PF Sacramento Kings Efes Pilsen (Turkey) 1 17 SF/SG Seattle SuperSonics Oklahoma State (Sr.) 1 18 SF/SG Los Angeles Clippers (from Toronto via New York, Philadelphia and Atlanta) DePaul (So.) 1 19 + PF/C Charlotte Hornets Kentucky (Sr.) 1 20 PG Philadelphia 76ers Hofstra (Sr.) 1 21 SF/SG Toronto Raptors (from Minnesota) Michigan State (Sr.) 1 22 SF New York Knicks (traded with John Wallace to Dallas for Erick Strickland and Pete Mickeal) Florida (Fr.) 1 23 SG Utah Jazz (from Miami) Washington Union HS (Fresno, California) 1 24 C Chicago Bulls (from San Antonio) Benston Zagreb (Croatia) 1 25 C Phoenix Suns AEK (Greece) 1 26 C Denver Nuggets (from Utah) Auburn (Sr.) 1 27 C Indiana Pacers Union Olimpija (Slovenia) 1 28 PG Portland Trail Blazers St. John's (So.) 1 29 PF Los Angeles Lakers Stanford (Sr.) 2 30 G Los Angeles Clippers Paf Bologna (Italy) 2 31 PF Dallas Mavericks (from Chicago, traded to Houston for Eduardo Nájera and a future second-round draft pick) Vanderbilt (Sr.) 2 32 PG Chicago Bulls (from Golden State) Indiana (Sr.) 2 33 C Chicago Bulls (from Vancouver via Houston) Connecticut (Sr.) 2 34 PG Chicago Bulls (from Atlanta) Connecticut (Jr.) 2 35 F Washington Wizards Louisiana-Monroe (Jr.) 2 36 C New Jersey Nets Cincinnati Stuff (IBL) 2 37 SG Miami Heat (from Cleveland via Denver) Arizona State (Sr.) 2 38 PF Houston Rockets (traded to Dallas with future second-round pick for Dan Langhi) Oklahoma (Sr.) 2 39 SG New York Knicks (from Boston) St. John's (Sr.) 2 40 SF/PF Atlanta Hawks (from Denver) Utah (Sr.) 2 41# SG San Antonio Spurs (from Orlando) Duke (Sr.) 2 42 PF Seattle SuperSonics Würzburg (Germany) 2 43 * SG Milwaukee Bucks Ohio State (Jr.) 2 44 PF Detroit Pistons Purdue (Sr.) 2 45 C Sacramento Kings LSU (Sr.) 2 46# SF Toronto Raptors COS (So.) 2 47# G Seattle SuperSonics (traded to Boston for two future second-round picks) Cibona Zagreb (Croatia) 2 48# PG Philadelphia 76ers Temple (Jr.) 2 49 PG Milwaukee Bucks (from Charlotte) Syracuse (Sr.) 2 50 F Utah Jazz (from New York) Idaho (Sr.) 2 51 G Minnesota Timberwolves Red Star Belgrade (Serbia) 2 52 C Miami Heat Indian Hills CC (Jr.) 2 53 C Denver Nuggets (from Phoenix) Northern Arizona (Sr.) 2 54# G San Antonio Spurs (traded to L.A. Lakers for two future second-round picks) Indian Hills CC (So.) 2 55 F Golden State Warriors (from Utah) Auburn (Sr.) 2 56# G Indiana Pacers Colorado (Sr.) 2 57# G Atlanta Hawks (from Portland via Detroit) Ohio State (Sr.) 2 58# F Dallas Mavericks (from L.A. Lakers, traded with Erick Strickland to New York for John Wallace and Donnell Harvey) Cincinnati (Sr.)
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 PF Villanova (Sr.) C/PF New Mexico Slam (IBL) G/F Detroit (Sr.) SG Gonzaga (Sr.) PG Weber State (Sr.) G DePaul (Jr.) SF Fresno State (Sr.) PG Temple (Sr.) G Oregon (Sr.) SF Portland State (Sr.)
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 (with Joshua Cross from Southern Illinois University, Jason Kapono from UCLA, Brian Merriweather from the University of Texas Pan-American, Jeryl Sasser from Southern Methodist University, Kenny Satterfield from the University of Cincinnati, Karim Shabazz from Providence College, and Joe White from Texas A&M University being the collegiate players that withdrew their names). 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 (sophomore) Ernest Brown – C/F, Indian Hills CC (sophomore) Schea Cotton – G, Alabama (sophomore) Jamal Crawford – G, Michigan (freshman) Kaniel Dickens – F, Idaho (junior) Keyon Dooling – G, Missouri (sophomore) Khalid El-Amin – G, Connecticut (junior) Steve Eldridge – C, Henderson State (junior) Marcus Fizer – F, Iowa State (junior) Donnell Harvey – F, Florida (freshman) Cory Hightower – G/F, Indian Hills CC (sophomore) Rashaad Hines – G, Texas A&M–Corpus Christi (junior) Jimmie Hunter – G, Life (sophomore) DerMarr Johnson – F/G, Cincinnati (freshman) Mark Karcher – F, Temple (junior) Andre Mahorn – F, Utah State (junior) Paul McPherson – G, DePaul (junior) Chris Mihm – C, Texas (junior) Mike Miller – F, Florida (sophomore) Jérôme Moïso – F, UCLA (sophomore) Joel Przybilla – C, Minnesota (sophomore) Michael Redd – G, Ohio State (junior) Quentin Richardson – G, DePaul (sophomore) JaRon Rush – F, UCLA (sophomore) Stromile Swift – F, LSU (sophomore) Derrick Worrell – F, Pittsburgh (junior)
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 (East St. Louis, Illinois) DeShawn Stevenson – G, Washington Union High School (Easton, California)
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.
Aleksey Savrasenko – C, Olympiacos (Greece) Dalibor Bagarić – C, Benston Zagreb (Croatia) Primož Brezec – C, Olimpija (Slovenia) David Mushkudiani – F, Lukoil Academic (Bulgaria) Stevan Nađfeji – F, Beobanka (FR Yugoslavia) Olumide Oyedeji – F, DJK Würzburg (Germany) Jake Tsakalidis – C, AEK (Greece) Hedo Türkoğlu – F, Efes Pilsen (Turkey)
Invited attendees