| Year | Draft | Round | Pick | Player | Pos | From | Notes | ROY | HOF | Allstar | Heismann |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 1 | Derrick Rose | Memphis | ! | 2009 | ||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 2 | Michael Beasley | Kansas State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 3 | O.J. Mayo | Southern California | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 4 | Russell Westbrook | California, Los Angeles | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 5 | Kevin Love | California, Los Angeles | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 6 | Danilo Gallinari | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 7 | Eric Gordon | Indiana | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 8 | Joe Alexander | West Virginia | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 9 | D.J. Augustin | Texas at Austin | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 10 | Brook Lopez | Stanford | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 11 | Jerryd Bayless | Arizona | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 12 | Jason Thompson | Rider | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 13 | Brandon Rush | Kansas | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 14 | Anthony Randolph | Louisiana State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 15 | Robin Lopez | Stanford | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 16 | Marreese Speights | Florida | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 17 | Roy Hibbert | Georgetown | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 18 | JaVale McGee | Nevada, Reno | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 19 | J.J. Hickson | North Carolina State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 20 | Alexis Ajinca | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 21 | Ryan Anderson | California | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 22 | Courtney Lee | Western Kentucky | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 23 | Kosta Koufos | Ohio State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 24 | Serge Ibaka | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 25 | Nicolas Batum | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 26 | George Hill | Indiana-Purdue Indianapolis | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 27 | Darrell Arthur | Kansas | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 28 | Donte Greene | Syracuse | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 29 | D.J. White | Indiana | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 1 | 30 | J.R. Giddens | New Mexico | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 31 | Nikola Pekovic | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 32 | Walter Sharpe | Alabama at Birmingham | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 33 | Joey Dorsey | Memphis | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 34 | Mario Chalmers | Kansas | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 35 | DeAndre Jordan | Texas A&M | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 36 | Omer Asik | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 37 | Luc Mbah a Moute | California, Los Angeles | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 38 | Kyle Weaver | Washington State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 39 | Sonny Weems | Arkansas | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 40 | Chris Douglas-Roberts | Memphis | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 41 | Nathan Jawai | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 42 | Sean Singletary | Virginia | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 43 | Patrick Ewing | Georgetown | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 44 | Ante Tomic | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 45 | Goran Dragic | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 46 | Trent Plaisted | Brigham Young Hawaii | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 47 | Bill Walker | Kansas State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 48 | Malik Hairston | Oregon | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 49 | Richard Hendrix | Alabama | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 50 | DeVon Hardin | California | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 51 | Shan Foster | Vanderbilt | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 52 | Darnell Jackson | Kansas | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 53 | Tadija Dragicevic | |||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 54 | Maarty Leunen | Oregon | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 55 | Mike Taylor | Iowa State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 56 | Sasha Kaun | Kansas | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 57 | James Gist | Maryland | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 58 | Joe Crawford | Kentucky | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 59 | Deron Washington | Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State | ||||||
| 2008 | 2008 | 2 | 60 | Semih Erden | |||||||
RetroSeasons
Reliving Sports History … One Season at a Time
what a year. the competitiveness of the ABL really brought the NBA out of its duldrums.