1994 NBA draft
Template:Short description Template:Use mdy dates Template:Infobox sports draft The 1994 NBA draft took place on June 29, 1994, at Hoosier Dome in Indianapolis. Two NBA rookies of the year were picked in the first round, as Jason Kidd and Grant Hill were co-winners of the award for the 1994–95 NBA season. Kidd and Hill would end up as perennial All-Stars (10 and 7-time selections, respectively), though Hill's career was marred by severe injuries.
The first overall pick Glenn Robinson was involved in a contract holdout shortly after being selected, reportedly seeking a 13-year, $100 million contract. Both Robinson and the Milwaukee Bucks eventually agreed on a 10-year, $68 million contract, which once stood as the richest contract ever signed by a rookie in professional sports.[1] A fixed salary cap for rookies was implemented by the NBA the following season. Robinson himself had a productive NBA career, becoming a two-time NBA All-Star and winning an NBA Championship in 2005 in his final year with the San Antonio Spurs.[2]
This is the final draft to date to see all of the first three picks make All-Star rosters with the teams that originally drafted them.[3]
Draft selections
| PG | Point guard | SG | Shooting guard | SF | Small forward | PF | Power forward | C | Center |
Notable undrafted players
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| Player | Pos. | Nationality | School/club team |
|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Sortname | PG | Template:Flagu | Missouri (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SF | Script error: No such module "flag". | Lobos de Villa Clara (Cuba) |
| Template:Sortname | PF | Template:Flagu | Virginia Tech (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SG | Template:Flagu | Georgetown (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | C | Template:Flagu | King College Prep (Chicago, Illinois) |
| Template:Sortname | SG | Template:Flagu | Kansas State (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SG | Template:Flagu | Jackson State (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | F | Template:Flagu | Georgia Tech (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | PG | Template:Flagu | North Carolina (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | PG | Template:Flagu | Hawaii (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | C | Template:Flagu | North Carolina (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SG | Template:Flagu | Arizona State (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SF | Template:Flagu | Auburn (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SF | Template:Flagu | Green Bay (Sr.) |
| Template:Sortname | SG | Template:Flagu | Georgia Tech (Sr.) |
Early entrants
College underclassmen
For the twelfth year in a row and the sixteenth time in seventeen years, no college underclassman would withdraw their entry into the NBA draft. However, it would be the eighth time in nine years that players that left college early to play professionally overseas would declare entry into the NBA draft as an underclassman of sorts, with the University of Kansas' Darrin Hancock playing for the Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket in France and the University of Alabama's Cedric Moore playing for the GSSV Donar out in The Netherlands. With their inclusions, the official number of underclassmen would increase from eighteen to twenty total players. Regardless, the following college basketball players successfully applied for early draft entrance.[5]
- Template:Flagicon Maurice Barnett – C, Elizabeth City State (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Jamie Brandon – G, LSU (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Charles Claxton – C, Georgia (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Rennie Clemons – G, Illinois (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Sedric Curry – F, North Dakota (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Yinka Dare – C, George Washington (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Thomas Hamilton – C, Wabash Valley (freshman)
- Template:Flagicon Lemon Haynes – F, Augusta (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Juwan Howard – F, Michigan (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Jason Kidd – G, California (sophomore)
- Template:Flagicon Voshon Lenard – G, Minnesota (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Donyell Marshall – F, Connecticut (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Lamond Murray – F, California (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Glenn Robinson – F, Purdue (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Jalen Rose – G/F, Michigan (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Clifford Rozier – F, Louisville (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Johnny Tyson – C, Central Oklahoma (junior)
- Template:Flagicon Dontonio Wingfield – F, Cincinnati (freshman)
Other eligible players
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|---|---|---|---|
| Template:Flagicon Darrin Hancock | Aix Maurienne Savoie Basket (France) | Left Kansas in 1993; playing professionally since the 1993–94 season | [6] |
| Template:Flagicon Cedric Moore | GSSV Donar (The Netherlands) | Left Alabama in 1993; playing professionally since the 1993–94 season | [7] |
See also
References
External links
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- ↑ The Votes Are In – Dated Nov 14, 1994
- ↑ NBA Draft: Ranking the No. 1 Picks in NBA Draft History – Dated 21/June/2010
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- ↑ The Lakers traded No. 37 pick along with No. 50 pick in the 1995 NBA draft and No. 53 pick in the 1996 NBA draft to the SuperSonics for Sedale Threatt on October 2, 1991.
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