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2007 NBA draft

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The 2007 NBA Draft will be held on June 28, 2007 at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City and will be broadcast in the United States on ESPN.

Draft order

The first 14 picks in the draft, belonging to teams that had missed the 2007 NBA Playoffs, were determined through a lottery held on May 22, 2007. The remaining first-round picks and the second-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win-loss record in the 2006-07 NBA season.

Round 1

Pick Player POS/HT/WT NBA Team School/Club Team
1 Portland Trail Blazers -
2 Seattle SuperSonics -
3 Atlanta Hawks -
4 Memphis Grizzlies -
5 Boston Celtics -
6 Milwaukee Bucks -
7 Minnesota Timberwolves -
8 Charlotte Bobcats -
9 Chicago Bulls -
10 Sacramento Kings -
11 Atlanta Hawks -
12 Philadelphia 76ers -
13 New Orleans Hornets -
14 Los Angeles Clippers -
15 Detroit Pistons -
16 Washington Wizards -
17 New Jersey Nets -
18 Golden State Warriors -
19 Los Angeles Lakers -
20 Miami Heat -
21 Philadelphia 76ers -
22 Charlotte Bobcats -
23 New York Knicks -
24 Phoenix Suns -
25 Utah Jazz -
26 Houston Rockets -
27 Detroit Pistons -
28 San Antonio Spurs -
29 Phoenix Suns -
30 Philadelphia 76ers -

Round 2

Pick Player HT & WT NBA Team School/Club Team
31 - - Seattle SuperSonics (from Memphis) -
32 - - Boston Celtics -
33 - - San Antonio Spurs (from Milwaukee) -
34 - - Dallas Mavericks (from Atlanta) -
35 - - Seattle SuperSonics -
36 - - Golden State Warriors (from Minnesota) -
37 - - Portland Trail Blazers -
38 - - Philadelphia 76ers (from New York via Chicago) -
39 - - Miami Heat (from Sacramento via Utah and Orlando) -
40 - - Los Angeles Lakers (from Charlotte) -
41 - - Minnesota Timberwolves (from Philadelphia) -
42 - - Portland Trail Blazers (from Indiana) -
43 - - New Orleans Hornets -
44 - - Orlando Magic -
45 - - Los Angeles Clippers -
46 - - Golden State Warriors (from New Jersey) -
47 - - Washington Wizards -
48 - - Los Angeles Lakers -
49 - - Chicago Bulls (from Golden State via Denver, Boston and Phoenix) -
50 - - Dallas Mavericks (from Miami via LA Lakers) -
51 - - Chicago Bulls (from Denver) -
52 - - Portland Trail Blazers (from Toronto) -
53 - - Portland Trail Blazers (from Chicago) -
54 - - Orlando Magic (from Cleveland) -
55 - - Utah Jazz -
56 - - Milwaukee Bucks (from Houston) -
57 - - Detroit Pistons -
58 - - San Antonio Spurs -
59 - - Phoenix Suns -
60 - - Dallas Mavericks -

Teams without a Draft Pick

These teams do not have a Draft Pick in the 2007 NBA Draft:

  • Denver Nuggets
  • Toronto Raptors
  • Cleveland Cavaliers
  • Indiana Pacers

Lottery

Teams were in the 2007 draft lottery either by being eliminated from playoff consideration or through prior trades with non-playoff teams. The NBA performed a tie-breaker on April 20 to determine which teams get which picks.[1] The lottery was held on May 22, 2007 in Secaucus, New Jersey.

Fourteen ping-pong balls, numbered from one to 14, were placed in a bin to create 1,001 four-ball combinations. Each team was assigned a set number of four-ball combinations based on their won-loss record during the 2006-07 NBA season. Combinations were drawn to determine the top three picks, and then the remaining spots were assigned to the remaining teams based on their win-loss records.[2]

The first 14 picks were awarded as follows (with the winning lottery numbers for the top 3 picks).[3]

  1. Portland Trail Blazers (5–9–14–13)
  2. Seattle SuperSonics (14–4–11–10)
  3. Atlanta Hawks (5–6–9–4)
  4. Memphis Grizzlies
  5. Boston Celtics
  6. Milwaukee Bucks
  7. Minnesota Timberwolves
  8. Charlotte Bobcats
  9. New York Knicks (sent to Chicago Bulls)
  10. Sacramento Kings
  11. Indiana Pacers (sent to Atlanta Hawks)
  12. Philadelphia 76ers
  13. New Orleans Hornets
  14. Los Angeles Clippers

Despite having the three highest probabilities of earning a top-three pick, the Memphis Grizzlies (.643 probability of drawing a top three pick), Boston Celtics (.558), nor Milwaukee Bucks (.468), received a top-three pick. Mathematically, this situation occurs only 8.4% of the time.[4] Memphis, Boston and Milwaukee received the fourth, fifth and sixth picks, the lowest possible picks they could be awarded through the lottery.[5]

Below were the chances for each seed to get specific picks in the 2007 lottery (rounded to 3 decimal places)[6] (actual results in bold):

Seed Chances 1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 6th 7th 8th 9th 10th 11th 12th 13th 14th
Memphis Grizzlies 250 .250 .215 .178 .357
Boston Celtics 199 .199 .188 .171 .319 .123
Milwaukee Bucks 156 .156 .157 .156 .226 .265 .041
Atlanta Hawks/Phoenix Suns* 119 .119 .126 .133 .099 .350 .161 .013
Seattle SuperSonics 88 .088 .097 .107 .261 .359 .084 .004
Portland Trail Blazers 53 .053 .060 .070 .439 .331 .046 .001
Minnesota Timberwolves 53 .053 .060 .070 .572 .226 .018
Charlotte Bobcats 19 .019 .022 .027 .725 .196 .011
Chicago Bulls (from New York Knicks) 19 .019 .022 .027 .784 .143 .005
Sacramento Kings 18 .018 .021 .025 .846 .087 .002
Atlanta Hawks (from Indiana Pacers)** 8 .008 .009 .012 .907 .063 .001
Philadelphia 76ers 7 .007 .008 .010 .935 .039 .001
New Orleans Hornets 6 .006 .007 .009 .960 .018
Los Angeles Clippers 5 .005 .006 .007 .982

*Pick would remain with Atlanta if it was in the top three. If it was not in the top three it would be transferred to the Phoenix Suns.
**Pick would remain with Indiana if it was in the top ten.

Eligibility rules

Beginning with the 2006 draft, high school players are not eligible for selection. The collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players union raised the age limit for draft eligibility from 18 to 19.[7]

  • All drafted players, regardless of nationality, must be born on or before December 31, 1988 (i.e., they must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft).
  • Players who graduated from a United States high school, regardless of nationality, must be at least one year removed from high school graduation.[8]

Underclassmen declaring for the draft

Players at U.S. colleges automatically become eligible upon finishing their college eligibility. Underclassmen had until 60 days before the draft[8] (in 2007, this fell on April 29)[9] to declare eligibility for the draft, and had until 10 days before the draft[8] (i.e., June 18)[10] to withdraw and retain their college eligibility. However, a player will lose his eligibility if:

  • He signs with an agent.
  • He has declared for and withdrawn from a previous NBA Draft. Although the NBA collective bargaining agreement allows a player to withdraw twice,[8] the NCAA only allows a player to withdraw once and retain college eligibility.

The following college players have declared for the draft:[11][12]

Have signed with an agent

Have declared for and withdrawn from a previous draft

Have not signed with an agent

Did not sign with an agent and withdrew prior to draft

International players declaring for the draft

These are players born between January 1, 1986 and December 31, 1988 for whom all of the following are true:[8]

  • They have lived outside the United States for at least three years prior to the draft while playing organized basketball, either as an amateur or professional, outside the U.S.
  • They have never enrolled at a U.S. college or university.
  • They did not complete high school in the U.S.

International players become automatically eligible for the draft in the calendar year that they turn 22; younger players must declare for the draft, with the same deadline as for U.S. college players. These players can withdraw from the draft as well; while preserving U.S. college eligibility is not an issue for the vast majority of such players, who are ineligible for college play as professionals, they may have contractual or personal reasons for withdrawing. The NBA released the list of international early entrants as part of its official release of the early entrants list on May 4.[11]

Player Nationality Club team Nation of club
Ralfi Silva Ansaloni   Brazil Praia Club Brazil
Stanko Barać   Bosnia and Herzegovina Široki ERONET Bosnia and Herzegovina
Marco Belinelli   Italy Climamio Bologna Italy
Kyrylo Fesenko   Ukraine SK Cherkassy Monkeys Ukraine
Petteri Koponen   Finland Honka Finland
Yi Jianlian   China Guangdong Southern Tigers China

Previously declared for this draft, but now withdrawn

Player Nationality Club team Nation of club
Rodrigue Beaubois[15]   France Cholet France
Hakan Demirel[15]   Turkey Fenerbahçe Ülker Turkey
Romain Duport[15]   France Le Havre France
Vladimir Golubović[15]   Serbia Vojvodina Serbia
Rafael Hettsheimeier[45]   Brazil Akasvayu Vic Spain (third division)
Deyan Ivanov[15]   Bulgaria Drac Inca Spain (second division)
Kaloyan Ivanov[15]   Bulgaria ViveMenorca Spain
Maxym Ivshyn[45]   Ukraine Azovmash Ukraine
Ivan Maraš[45]   Montenegro Budućnost Podgorica Montenegro
Manuchar Markoishvili[15]   Georgia Union Olimpija Slovenia
Douglas Angelo Nunes[15]   Brazil Uberlândia Brazil
Caner Öner[15]   Turkey Alpella Turkey
Miroslav Raduljica[15]   Serbia FMP Serbia
Nikita Shabalkin[45]   Russia Samara Russia
Vladimir Štimac[45]   Serbia Valmiera Latvia
Gabriel Szalay[15]   Slovakia Norrköping Sweden
Caio Torres[45]   Brazil Estudiantes Spain
Artem Zabelin[15]   Russia Avtodor Russia (third division)

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