Draft NBA 2006

The draft NBA 2006 was held the June 8th with the Theater of the Madison Square Garden to New York City. The draft was diffused with the the United States on ESPN and in 202 countries through the monde.

First turn

Second round

Lottery of the draft 2006

The lottery 2006 took place the May 23rd 2006 with Secaucus, New Jersey. At the time of the draft, the 14 teams which did not qualify themselves for the play-offs 2006 are selected for the first 14 choices of the draft in the inverse order of their classification in regular season excluded for the three first, which are selected by the lottery. Statistically, the team with the worst assessment with the best chance to have the first choice, the team with the second worse assessment has the second choice and so on. After the list of the first three choices, the 27 other first choices of the draft are assigned with the other teams: the choices number 4 to 14 are assigned with the other teams not-qualified in play-offs (only these teams take part in the lottery for the first three choices) in the inverse order of their assessment, and choices 15 to 30 are assigned with the remainder of teams NBA, in the opposite odre (thus, the team with the best assessment will have the 30e choice). The second round also consists in choosing 30 players; the teams choose in the inverse order of their assessment at the time of this second turn. The lottery relates to only the first turn; the team with the worst assessment has the first choice with the second turn.

Teams in the lottery

The following teams are " qualifiées" for the lottery of the draft because not qualified for the play-offs. The NBA draws up a list. In certain cases, the teams in question transfer their choice from first turn to another team.

Here probabilities for each team of having choices for the lottery 2006 (round-off with three decimals, with the results in fat):

Results of the lottery

  1. Toronto Raptors

  2. Chicago bulldozers
  3. Charlotte Bobcats
  4. Portland cement Trail Blazers
  5. Atlanta Hawks
  6. Minnesota Timberwolves
  7. Boston Celtics
  8. Houston Rockets
  9. Golden delicious State Warriors
  10. Seattle SuperSonics
  11. Orlando Magic
  12. New Orleans/Oklahoma City Hornets
  13. Philadelphia 76ers
  14. Utah Jazz

Rules of eligibility

Contrary to the preceding drafts, the players of college were not eligible. The new collective agreement between the league and the trade union of the players established a new limiting age to be eligible with the draft:
  • All the draftés players, without reference to nationality, must be born before the December 31st 1987 (they must thus be 19 years old the year of the draft).
  • the American players must be at least a year of their diploma of the college.

The players had until April 29th to declare themselves for the draft. A player who had not been already withdrawn from the draft and which had not signed with an agent had until June 18th for withdraws draft and capacity being again eligible at the university.

The record of the University of Connecticut

The University off Connecticut has a record of 4 players selected with the first turn. These players are Rudy Gay, Hilton Armstrong, Marcus Williams and Josh Boone. This record was then held by Duke University in 1999 with (Elton Brand, Trajan Langdon, Corey Maggette and William Avery) and North Carolina with (Marvin Williams, Raymond Felton, Sean May and Rashad McCants) in 2005.

When Denham Brown was selected to the second turn by Seattle, UConn became the first university to have placed five players at the time of the two first turns of a draft.

Transfers the day of the draft

The following transfers including the choices of the draft 2006 were carried out during the publication about the draft, including the day of Draft NBA 2006.

  • the Boston Celtics acquired Sebastian Telfair, Theo Ratliff and a second round of 2008 draft with the Portland Trail Blazers against Raef LaFrentz, daN Dickau, and the seventh choice Randy Foye. *Les Chicago bulldozers transferred the second choice LaMarcus Aldridge to Portland cement Trail Blazers for the fourth choice Tyrus Thomas and Viktor Khryapa. *Les Houston Rockets transferred the eighth choice Rudy Gay and Stromile Swift to the Memphis Grizzlies for Shane Battier.

  • the Portland Trail Blazers transferred the rights of Randy Foye to the Minnesota Timberwolves for the rights of Brandon Roy.
  • the Philadelphia 76ers transferred the rights of Thabo Sefolosha to the Chicago bulldozers for the rights of Rodney Carney, a second round of draft 2007 and one amount of money.
  • the Boston Celtics acquired Brian Grant and the rights of the 21e choice, Rajon Rondo, of the Phoenix Suns for a first turn of draft 2007.
  • the Boston Celtics acquired the rights of the 49e choice Leon Powe, of the Denver Nuggets for a future second turn of draft.
  • the Orlando Magic transferred the 44e choice Lior Eliyahu to the Houston Rockets for an amount of money.
  • the Los Angeles Lakers transferred the rights of the 51e choice Cheick Samb to the Detroit Pistons for Maurice Evans.
  • the Toronto Raptors exchanged the rights of the 56e choice Edin Bavcic to the Philadelphia 76ers for an amount of money.
  • the San Antonio Spurs exchanged the rights of the 59e choice Damir Markota to the Milwaukee Bucks for best of the two seconds turns of draft 2007 of Milwaukee.
  • the Dallas Mavericks transferred the rights of the 58e choice J.R. Pinnock to the Los Angeles Lakers for a future second turn of draft.
  • the Minnesota Timberwolves transferred the rights of the 37e choice Bobby Jones to the Philadelphia 76ers for a future second turn of draft and an amount of money.
  • the Portland cement Trail Blazers acquired the rights to the 45th pick Alexander Johnson along with two future second-round picks from the Indiana Pacers for the rights to the 31st pick James White.
  • Portland cement Trail Blazers traded Alexander Johnson to the Memphis Grizzlies for has future second-round pick.

Non-draftés major players

All the players are American, unless otherwise specified.

References

  • "To form Runnin' Rebel signs free-agent contract with Sacramento Kings" , June 30th, 2006

External bonds

  • NBA.com coverage off 2006 NBA Draft

  • NBA.com coverage off 2006 lottery
  • Coverage & Results off the 2006 NBA Draft
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