Dallas Mavericks draft history

In their 45-year history, the Dallas Mavericks have selected the following players in the National Basketball Association draft.

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Naismith Basketball Hall of Famer |  First overall NBA draft pick |  Selected for an NBA All-Star Game

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## Draft selections

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Year | Round | Pick | Player | Nationality | College/High School/Club

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1980 | 1 | 11  | Kiki Vandeweghe |  United States | University of California, Los Angeles
1980 | 2 | 34  | Roosevelt Bouie |  United States | Syracuse University
1980 | 3 | 57  | Dave Britton |  United States | Texas A&M University
1980 | 4 | 80  | Avery Klask |  United States | Weber State University
1980 | 5 | 103  | Darrell Allums |  United States | UCLA
1980 | 6 | 126  | Leroy Jackson |  United States | Cameron University
1980 | 7 | 149  | Tony Forch |  United States | Midwestern State University
1980 | 8 | 169  | Clarence Kea |  United States | Lamar University
1980 | 9 | 189  | Ken Williams |  United States | University of Houston
1980 | 10 | 206  | Tom Morgan |  United States | California State University, Fullerton
1981 | 1 | 1  | Mark Aguirre |  United States | DePaul University
1981 | 1 | 9  | Rolando Blackman |  United States[a] | Kansas State University
1981 | 2 | 24  | Jay Vincent |  United States | Michigan State University
1981 | 2 | 43  | Elston Turner |  United States | University of Mississippi
1981 | 3 | 47  | Art Housey |  United States | University of Kansas
1981 | 4 | 70  | Eddie Moss |  United States | Syracuse University
1981 | 5 | 93  | Pete Budko |  United States | University of North Carolina
1981 | 6 | 116  | Karl Bakowski |  United States | University of Utah
1981 | 7 | 139  | Danny Davis |  United States | UNC Wilmington
1981 | 8 | 162  | David Kennedy |  United States | University of Cincinnati
1981 | 9 | 184  | John Hollinden |  United States | Indiana State Evansville[b]
1981 | 10 | 204  | Scott Bosanko[c] |  United States | Northern State College[d]
1982 | 1 | 4  | Bill Garnett |  United States | University of Wyoming
1982 | 3 | 50  | Corny Thompson |  United States | University of Connecticut
1982 | 4 | 73  | Rudy Woods |  United States | Texas A&M University
1982 | 5 | 96  | Ken Arnold |  United States | University of Iowa
1982 | 6 | 119  | Wayne Waggoner |  United States | Northwestern State University
1982 | 7 | 142  | Bob Grady |  United States | Northwestern University
1982 | 8 | 165  | Keith Peterson |  United States | University of Arkansas
1982 | 9 | 188  | Ralph McPherson |  United States | University of Texas at Arlington
1982 | 10 | 209  | Albert Culton |  United States | University of Texas at Arlington
1983 | 1 | 9  | Dale Ellis |  United States | University of Tennessee
1983 | 1 | 11  | Derek Harper |  United States | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
1983 | 2 | 30  | Mark West |  United States | Old Dominion University
1983 | 2 | 33  | Dirk Minniefield |  United States | University of Minnesota
1983 | 4 | 79  | Johnny Martin |  United States | Northwestern State University
1983 | 5 | 102  | Jim Lampley |  United States | University of Arkansas at Little Rock
1983 | 6 | 125  | Billy Allen |  United States | University of Nevada, Reno
1983 | 7 | 148  | Terrell Schlundt |  United States | Marquette University
1983 | 8 | 171  | Bill Sadler |  United States | Pepperdine University
1983 | 9 | 193  | Sherrod Arnold |  United States | Chicago State University
1983 | 10 | 214  | Clyde Corley |  United States | Florida International University
1984 | 1 | 4  | Sam Perkins |  United States | University of North Carolina
1984 | 1 | 15  | Terence Stansbury |  United States | Temple University
1984 | 2 | 38  | Charlie Sitton |  United States | Northwestern State University
1984 | 2 | 40  | Anthony Teachey |  United States | Wake Forest University
1984 | 2 | 41  | Tom Sluby |  United States | University of Notre Dame
1984 | 3 | 61  | Jeff Cross |  United States | University of Maine
1984 | 4 | 84  | John Horrocks |  United States | University of North Texas[e]
1984 | 5 | 107  | Dave Williams |  United States | University of Illinois at Chicago
1984 | 6 | 130  | LaVerne Evans |  United States | Marshall University
1984 | 7 | 153  | George Turner |  United States | University of California, Irvine
1984 | 8 | 176  | Leroy Sutton |  United States | University of Arkansas
1984 | 9 | 198  | John Tudor |  United States | Louisiana State University
1984 | 10 | 220  | Napoleon Johnson |  United States | Grambling State University
1985 | 1 | 8  | Detlef Schrempf |  West Germany | University of Washington
1985 | 1 | 16  | Bill Wennington |  Canada | St. John's University (NY)
1985 | 1 | 17  | Uwe Blab |  West Germany | Indiana University
1985 | 2 | 40  | Mark Acres |  United States | Oral Roberts University
1985 | 3 | 50  | Leonard Allen |  United States | San Diego State University
1985 | 3 | 63  | Harold Keeling |  United States | Santa Clara University
1985 | 4 | 86  | Bubba Jennings |  United States | Texas Tech University
1985 | 5 | 109  | Tommy Davis |  United States | University of Minnesota
1985 | 6 | 132  | Carlton Cooper |  United States | University of Texas at Austin
1985 | 7 | 155  | Ed Catchings |  United States | University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1986 | 1 | 7  | Roy Tarpley |  United States | University of Michigan
1986 | 2 | 25  | Mark Price |  United States | Georgia Institute of Technology
1986 | 2 | 35  | Milt Wagner |  United States | University of Louisville
1986 | 3 | 62  | Anthony Welch |  United States | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
1986 | 4 | 85  | Myron Jackson |  United States | University of Arkansas at Little Rock
1986 | 5 | 108  | Jay Bilas |  United States | Duke University
1986 | 6 | 131  | Greg Anderson |  United States | Lamar University
1986 | 7 | 154  | Kim Cooksey |  United States | Middle Tennessee State University
1987 | 1 | 20  | Jim Farmer |  United States | University of Alabama
1987 | 2 | 20  | Steve Alford |  United States | Indiana University
1987 | 3 | 66  | Mike Richmond |  United States | University of Texas at El Paso
1987 | 4 | 89  | David Johnson |  United States | University of Oklahoma
1987 | 5 | 112  | Sam Hill |  United States | University of Iowa
1987 | 6 | 135  | Quintan Gates |  United States | University of Texas at El Paso
1987 | 7 | 158  | Gerald White |  United States | Auburn University
1988 | 2 | 46  | Morlon Wiley |  United States | California State University, Long Beach
1988 | 2 | 49  | José Vargas |  Dominican Republic | Louisiana State University
1988 | 3 | 70  | Jerry Johnson |  United States | Florida Southern College
1989 | 1 | 8  | Randy White |  United States | Louisiana Tech University
1989 | 2 | 35  | Pat Durham |  United States | Colorado State University
1989 | 2 | 53  | Jeff Hodge |  United States | University of South Alabama
1990 | 2 | 49  | Phil Henderson |  United States | Duke University
1991 | 1 | 6  | Doug Smith |  United States | University of Missouri
1991 | 2 | 33  | Donald Hodge |  United States | Temple University
1991 | 2 | 35  | Mike Iuzzolino |  United States
Italy | Saint Francis University
1992 | 1 | 4  | Jim Jackson |  United States | Ohio State University
1992 | 2 | 30  | Sean Rooks |  United States | University of Arizona
1993 | 1 | 4  | Jamal Mashburn |  United States | University of Kentucky
1993 | 2 | 28  | Lucious Harris |  United States | California State University, Long Beach
1993 | 2 | 33  | Eric Riley |  United States | University of Michigan
1994 | 1 | 2  | Jason Kidd |  United States | University of California
1994 | 1 | 19  | Tony Dumas |  United States | University of Missouri–Kansas City
1994 | 2 | 28  | Deon Thomas |  United States
Israel | University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
1995 | 1 | 12  | Cherokee Parks |  United States | Duke University
1995 | 2 | 24  | Loren Meyer |  United States | Iowa State University
1996 | 1 | 9  | Samaki Walker |  United States | University of Louisville
1996 | 2 | 34  | Shawn Harvey |  United States | West Virginia State University
1996 | 2 | 58  | Darnell Robinson |  United States | University of Arkansas
1997 | 1 | 15  | Kelvin Cato |  United States | Iowa State University
1997 | 2 | 34  | Bubba Wells |  United States | Austin Peay State University
1998 | 1 | 6  | Robert Traylor |  United States | University of Michigan
1998 | 2 | 30  | Ansu Sesay |  United States | University of Mississippi
1998 | 2 | 35  | Bruno Šundov |  Croatia | KK Split (Croatia)
1998 | 2 | 53  | Greg Buckner |  United States | Clemson University
1999 | 2 | 36  | Wang Zhizhi |  China | Bayi Rockets (China)
1999 | 2 | 40  | Gordan Giriček |  Croatia | KK Cibona (Croatia)
2000 | 1 | 12  | Etan Thomas |  United States | Syracuse University
2000 | 2 | 31  | Dan Langhi |  United States | Vanderbilt University
2000 | 2 | 58  | Pete Mickeal |  United States | University of Cincinnati
2001 | 2 | 43  | Kyle Hill |  United States | Eastern Illinois University
2001 | 2 | 53  | Kenny Satterfield |  United States | University of Cincinnati
2002 | 2 | 54  | Mladen Šekularac |  Serbia and Montenegro | FMP (Serbia)
2003 | 1 | 29  | Josh Howard |  United States | Wake Forest University
2003 | 2 | 57  | Xue Yuyang |  China | Hong Kong Flying Dragons (China)
2004 | 2 | 50  | Vassilis Spanoulis |  Greece | Maroussi B.C. (Greece)
2006 | 1 | 28  | Maurice Ager |  United States | Michigan State University
2006 | 2 | 58  | J. R. Pinnock |  United States
Panama | George Washington University
2007 | 2 | 34  | Nick Fazekas |  United States | University of Nevada, Reno
2007 | 2 | 50  | Renaldas Seibutis |  Lithuania | Olympiacos B.C. (Greece)
2007 | 2 | 60  | Milovan Raković |  Serbia | Mega Basket (Serbia)
2008 | 2 | 51  | Shan Foster |  United States | Vanderbilt University
2009 | 1 | 24  | Byron Mullens |  United States
United Kingdom | Ohio State University
2009 | 2 | 56  | Ahmad Nivins |  United States | Saint Joseph's University
2010 | 2 | 50  | Solomon Alabi |  Nigeria | Florida State University
2011 | 1 | 26  | Jordan Hamilton |  United States | University of Texas at Austin
2011 | 2 | 57  | Tanguy Ngombo[f] |  Congo
Qatar | Al Rayan SC Basketball Team (Qatar)
2012 | 1 | 17  | Tyler Zeller |  United States | University of North Carolina
2012 | 2 | 55  | Darius Johnson-Odom |  United States | Marquette University
2013 | 1 | 13  | Kelly Olynyk |  Canada | Gonzaga University
2013 | 2 | 44  | Mike Muscala |  United States | Bucknell University
2015 | 1 | 21  | Justin Anderson |  United States | University of Virginia
2015 | 2 | 52  | Satnam Singh Bhamara |  India | IMG Academy (Bradenton, Florida)
2016 | 2 | 46  | A. J. Hammons |  United States | Purdue University
2017 | 1 | 9  | Dennis Smith Jr. |  United States | NC State University
2018 | 1 | 5  | Trae Young |  United States | University of Oklahoma
2018 | 2 | 33  | Jalen Brunson |  United States | Villanova University
2018 | 2 | 56  | Shake Milton |  United States | Southern Methodist University
2019 | 2 | 45  | Isaiah Roby |  United States | University of Nebraska–Lincoln
2020 | 1 | 18  | Josh Green |  Australia | University of Arizona
2020 | 2 | 31  | Tyrell Terry |  United States | Stanford University
2022 | 1  | 26  | Wendell Moore Jr. |  United States | Duke University
2023 | 1  | 10  | Cason Wallace |  United States | Kentucky
2024 | 2  | 58  | Ariel Hukporti |  Germany | Riesen Ludwigsburg (Germany)
2025 | 1  | 1  | Cooper Flagg |  United States | Duke University

## Notes

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1. ^ Rolando Blackman was born in Panama, but grew up in the United States and has represented the United States national team.
2. ^ Granted independence from Indiana State University in 1985 and adopted the name University of Southern Indiana.
3. ^ Scott Bosanko's surname is also listed as Bofanko (sic)[1] and Bolanko (according to various sources concerning the 1981 draft).
4. ^ Granted university status in 1989 and changed name to Northern State University.
5. ^ Previously known as North Texas State University from 1961 to 1988.
6. ^ Erroneously listed as Targuy Ngombo in the 2007 draft.

## References

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1. ^ Zander Hollander, ed. (1981). The complete handbook of pro basketball (1982 season). New York, New York: Signet Books (New American Library, Inc.). p. 298\. ISBN 0-451-11091-9.

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