- 2000 NBA Draft First and Second Round Selections
- LSU’s First-Round Draft Picks
- Picks by Conference
- Bio
- Stromile Swift Stats
- Jabari Smith Bio
- Jabari Smith Stats
MINNEAPOLIS — As expected, LSU forward Stromile Swift had to wait through only one pick before being selected second overall by the Vancouver Grizzlies at the 2000 NBA draft Wednesday night at the Target Center in Minneapolis. Jabari Smith was selected at the 45th pick overall by the Sacramento Kings in the second round.
Swift, a 6-9 product of Shreveport and Fair Park High School, announced that he would forego his final two seasons of eligibility at LSU just one week ago in Baton Rouge after entering his name into the draft without securing an agent on May 11.
He became the 11th first-round draft pick in the school’s history, joining Tiger and NBA greats Bob Pettit, Pete Maravich, Chris Jackson (Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf) and Shaquille O’Neal as top three picks overall. He also became the first Tiger selected in the NBA draft since Randy Livingston and Ronnie Henderson were chosen 42nd and 55th overall in the 1996 draft.
Unless it trades for another, Vancouver will only have one pick (Swift) in the 2000 NBA draft.
Both Swift and Smith led LSU to the NCAA Sweet 16 with victories over Southeast Missouri State and Texas before falling to Wisconsin to end the season with a 28-6 record. LSU won the Southeastern Conference Western Division and tied for the SEC regular season title with with Florida, Kentucky and Tennessee at 12-4.
Among several postseason honors Swift received, the SEC Co-Player of the Year was named Second Team All-America by Basketball Times and Third Team All-America by the Associated Press. He was also named First-Team All-SEC by the AP and the coaches.
LSU First-Round NBA Draft Picks
1952 — Joe Dean, Indianapolis
1954 — Bob Pettit, Milwaukee (2nd pick)
1970 — Pete Maravich, Atlanta (3rd pick)
1983 — Howard Carter, Denver
1985 — Jerry Reynolds, Milwaukee
1986 — John Williams, Washington
1990 — Chris Jackson, Denver (3rd pick)
1991 — Stanley Roberts, Orlando
1992 — Shaquille O?Neal, Orlando (1st pick)
1993 — Geert Hammink, Orlando
2000 — Stromile Swift, Vancouver (2nd pick)
2000 National Basketball Association Draft
First Round Picks
| Team (trade) | Selection | School |
| 1. New Jersey Nets | Kenyon Martin | Cincinnatti |
| 2. Vancouver Grizzlies | Stromile Swift | LSU |
| 3. Los Angeles Clippers | Darius Miles | East St. Louis HS |
| 4. Chicago Bulls | Marcus Fizer | Iowa St. |
| 5. Orlando Magic | Mike Miller | Florida |
| 6. Atlanta Hawks | DerMarr Johnson | Cincinnati |
| 7. Chicago Bulls | Chris Mihm | Texas |
| (traded to Cleveland for Jamal Crawford and cash) | ||
| 8. Cleveland Cavaliers | Jamal Crawford | Michigan |
| (traded to Chicago for Chris Mihm) | ||
| 9. Houston Rockets | Joel Przybilla | Minnesota |
| (traded to Bucks for Jason Collier and future 1st Rd. pick) | ||
| 10. Orlando Magic | Keyon Dooling | Missouri |
| (from Denver) traded to Clippers for future 1st Rd. pick | ||
| 11. Boston Celtics | Jerome Moiso | UCLA |
| 12. Dallas Mavericks | Etan Thomas | Syracuse |
| 13. Orlando Magic | Courtney Alexander | Fresno St. |
| (traded to Mavericks for cash and future 1st Rd. pick) | ||
| 14. Detroit Pistons | Mateen Cleves | Michigan St. |
| 15. Milwaukee Bucks | Jason Collier | Georgia Tech |
| (traded to Houston for Joel Przybilla) | ||
| 16. Sacramento Kings | Hidayet Turkoglu | Efes Pilsen (Turkey) |
| 17. Seattle Supersonics | Desmond Mason | Oklahoma St. |
| 18. Los Angeles Clippers | Quentin Richardson | DePaul |
| (form Toronto via Atl., Phil, & N.Y.) | ||
| 19. Charlotte Hornets | Jamaal Magloire | Kentucky |
| 20. Philadelphia 76ers | Craig Claxton | Hofstra |
| 21. Toronto Raptors | Morris Peterson | Michigan St. |
| (from Minnesota) | ||
| 22. New York Knicks | Donnell Harvey | Florida |
| 23. Utah Jazz | DeShawn Stevenson | Washington Union HS |
| (from Miami) | ||
| 24. Chicago Bulls | Dalibor Bagaric | Bentson Zagreb (Croatia) |
| (from San Antonio) | ||
| 25. Phoenix Suns | Iakovos Tsakalidis | AEK Athens (Greece) |
| 26. Utah Jazz | Mamadou N’diaye | Auburn |
| 27. Indiana Pacers | Primoz Brezec | Olimpija Ljubljana (Slovenia) |
| 28. Portland Trailblazers | Erick Barkley | St. John’s |
| 29. Los Angeles Lakers | Mark Madsen | Stanford |
Second-Round Picks
hightowe to Lakers for 2 pjs
| 30. L.A. Clippers | Marko Jaric | PAF Bologna (Italy) |
| 31. Dallas (from Chicago) |
Dan Langhi | Vanderbilt |
| (traded to Houston) | ||
| 32. Chicago (from Golden State) |
A.J. Guyton | Indiana |
| 33. Chicago | Jake Voskuhl | Connecticut |
| (from Vancouver via Houston) | ||
| 34. Chicago (from Atlanta) |
Khalid El-Amin | Connecticut |
| 35. Washington | Mike Smith | Louisiana-Monroe |
| 36. New Jersey | Soumaila Samake | Cincinnati IBL (from Mali) |
| 37. Miami | Eddie House | Arizona St. |
| (from Denver via Cleveland) | ||
| 38. Houston | Eduardo Najera | Oklahoma |
| (traded to Dallas for Dan Langhi and future 2nd Rd. pick) | ||
| 39. New York (from Boston) |
Lavor Postell | St. John’s |
| 40. Atlanta (from Denver) |
Hanno Mattola | Utah |
| 41. San Antonio (from Dallas) |
Chris Carrawell | Duke |
| 42. Seattle (from Orlando) |
Olumide Oyedeji | DJK Wurzburg (Germany) (from Nigeria) |
| 43. Milwaukee | Michael Redd | Ohio St. |
| 44. Detroit | Brian Cardinal | Purdue |
| 45. Sacramento | Jabari Smith | LSU |
| 46. Toronto | DeeAndre Hullett | Las Vegas IBL College of the Sequoias |
| 47. Seattle | Josip Sesar | Cibona Zagreb (Croatia) |
| (traded to Celtics for two future picks) | ||
| 48. Philadelphia | Mark Karcher | Temple |
| 49. Milwaukee (from Charlotte) |
Jason Hart | Syracuse |
| 50. Utah (from New York) |
Kaniel Dickens | Idaho |
| 51. Minnesota | Igor Rakocevic | KK Crvena Zvesda (Yugoslavia) |
| 52. Miami | Ernest Brown | Indiana Hills JC |
| 53. Denver (from Phoenix) |
Dan McClintock | Northern Arizona |
| 54. San Antonio | Cory Hightower | Indian Hills JC |
| (traded to Lakers for two future picks) | ||
| 55. Golden State (from Utah) |
Chris Porter | Auburn |
| 56. Indiana | Jaquay Walls | Colorado |
| 57. Atlanta | Scoonie Penn | Ohio St. |
| (from Portland via Detroit) | ||
| 58. Dallas | Pete Mickeal | Cincinnati |
| (from L.A. Lakers) | ||
| Foreign Players: | 9 |
| SEC: | 8 |
| Big 10: | 8 |
| Big East | 6 |
| Big XII: | 6 |
| Conference USA: | 4 |
| Pac 10: | 3 |
| High School: | 2 |
| Western Athletic: | 2 |
| ACC: | 2 |
| Junior College: | 2 |
| America East: | 1 |
| Atlantic 10 | 1 |
| Big West: | 1 |
| Big Sky: | 1 |
| Central Valley Conf. | 1 |
| Southland: | 1 |