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NBA Draft 2008

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Round One
No.    Team    Selection
1
 Chicago Derrick Rose, Memphis
2
 Miami Michael Beasley, Kansas State
3
 Minnesota O.J. Mayo, USC
4
 Seattle Russell Westbrook, UCLA
5
 Memphis Kevin Love, UCLA
6
 New York Danilo Gallinari, Italy
7
 L.A. Clippers Eric Gordon, Indiana
8
 Milwaukee Joe Alexander, West Virginia
9
 Charlotte D.J. Augustin, Texas
10
 New Jersey Brook Lopez, Stanford
11
 Indiana Jerryd Bayless, Arizona State
12
 Sacramento Jason Thompson, Rider
13
 Portland Brandon Rush, Kansas
14
 Golden State Anthony Randolph, LSU
15
 Phoenix (from Atlanta) Robin Lopez, Stanford
16
 Philadelphia Marreese Speights, Florida
17
 Toronto Roy Hibbert, Georgetown
18
 Washington Javale McGee, Nevada
19
 Cleveland J.J. Hickson, North Carolina State
20
 Charlotte (from Denver) Alexis Ajinca, France
21
 New Jersey (from Dallas) Ryan Anderson, California
22
 Orlando Courtney Lee, Western Kentucky
23
 Utah Kosta Koufos, Ohio State
24
 Seattle (from Phoenix) Serge Ibaka, Spain
25
 Houston Nicolos Batum, France
26
 San Antonio George Hill, IUPUI
27
 New Orleans Darrell Arthur, Kansas
28
 Memphis (from L.A. Lakers) Donte Greene, Syracuse
29
 Detroit D.J. White, Indiana
30
 Boston J.R. Giddens, New Mexico

Round Two
No.    Team    Selection
31
 Minnesota (from Miami via Boston) Nikola Pekovic, Serbia
32
 Seattle Walter Sharpe, UAB
33
 Portland (from Memphis) Joey Dorsey, Memphis
34
 Minnesota Mario Chalmers, Kansas
35
 L.A. Clippers DeAndre Jordan, Texas A&M
36
 Portland (from New York) Omer Asik, Turkey
37
 Milwaukee Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, UCLA
38
 Charlotte Kyle Weaver, Washington State
39
 Chicago Sonny Weems, Arkansas
40
 New Jersey Chris Douglas-Roberts, Memphis
41
 Indiana Nathan Jawai, Australia
42
 Sacramento (from Atlanta) Sean Singletary, Virginia
43
 Sacramento Patrick Ewing Jr, Georgetown
44
 Utah (from Philadelphia) Ante Tomic, Croatia
45
 San Antonio (from Toronto) Goran Dragic, Slovenia
46
 Seattle (from Portland via Boston) Trent Plaisted, BYU-Hawaii
47
 Washington Bill Walker, Kansas State
48
 Phoenix (from Cleveland) Malik Hairston, Oregon
49
 Golden State Richard Hendrix, Alabama
50
 Seattle (from Denver) DeVon Hardin, California
51
 Dallas Shan Foster, Vanderbilt
52
 Miami (from Orlando) Darnell Jackson, Kansas
53
 Utah Tadija Dragicevic, Serbia
54
 Houston Maarty Leunen, Oregon
55
 Portland (from Phoenix via Indiana) Mike Taylor, Iowa State
56
 Seattle (from New Orleans via Houston) Sasha Kaun, Kansas
57
 San Antonio James Gist, Maryland
58
 L.A. Lakers Joe Crawford, Kentucky
59
 Detroit Deron Washington, Virginia Tech
60
 Boston Semih Erden, Turkey





Draft positions 1-3 were subjected to change due to draft lottery process thing.





Draft night trades:


  Miami trades the rights to Darnell Jackson to Cleveland for a second-round pick in 2009.

  Minnesota trades the rights to Mario Chalmers to Miami for two future second-round picks and cash.

  Minnesota trades Marko Jaric, Antoine Walker, Greg Buckner and the rights to O.J. Mayo to Memphis for Mike Miller, Brian Cardinal, Jason Collins and the rights to Kevin Love.

  New Jersey trades Richard Jefferson to Milwaukee for Yi Jianlian and Bobby Simmons.

  New Orleans trades the rights to Darrell Arthur to Portland for cash.

  Portland trades the rights to Mike Taylor to the L.A. Clippers for a second-round pick in 2009.

  Portland trades the rights to Darrell Arthur to Houston for the rights to Nicolas Batum.

  San Antonio trades the rights to Goran Dragic to Phoenix for the rights to Malik Hairston, a second-round pick in 2009 and cash.

  Seattle trades the rights to Sasha Kaun to Cleveland for cash

  Seattle trades the rights to Walter Sharpe and Trent Plaisted to Detroit for the rights to D.J. White.

  Washington trades the rights to Bill Walker to Boston for cash.



DIRTY SEXY THREEWAY, NUMBER 1:

  Portland trades the rights to Darrell Arthur - which they had only just acquired from New Orleans - and the rights to Joey Dorsey
 Portland receives the rights to Nicolas Batum

  Memphis trades the rights to Donte Greene and a second-round pick in 2009
  Memphis receives the rights to Darrell Arthur

  Houston trades the rights to Nicolas Batum
  Houston receives the rights to Donte Greene, the rights to Joey Dorsey and Memphis's second-round pick in 2009



DIRTY SEXY THREEWAY, NUMBER 2:

  Chicago trades the rights to Sonny Weems, New York's 2009 second round pick, and Chicago's own 2010 second round pick
  Chicago receives the rights to Omer Asik

  Denver trades their 2009 second-round pick
  Denver receives the rights to Sonny Weems

  Portland trades the rights to Omer Asik
  Portland receives all three future of the second-round picks


For picks involving this year's draft picks that had already happened prior to draft night, see the 2008 Trades page.


Draft held on Thursday 26th June, 2008
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