2006 NBA Draft
The 2006 NBA Draft was conducted on June 28, 2006 at Madison Square Garden in Manhattan , New York City . In two rounds, 30 players from each NBA team were selected.
This was the first NBA draft that banned high school players. Only players who turned 19 by the end of the year were allowed to register for the draft. American players also had to be at least a year after graduating from high school.
In the first place, the Italian Andrea Bargnani was selected by the Toronto Raptors . This made him the first European player to be voted first in the NBA draft.
With Thabo Sefolosha , the first Swiss in NBA history was drafted.
Round 1
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round 2
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UConn makes history
Four players were selected by the University of Connecticut in the 1st round: Rudy Gay , Hilton Armstrong , Marcus Williams and Josh Boone . Thus was caught up with the record of Duke University in the 1999 NBA draft ( Elton Brand , Trajan Langdon , Corey Maggette and William Avery ), and the record of the University of North Carolina ( Marvin Williams , Raymond Felton , Sean May and Rashad McCants ) in NBA Draft 2005 .
In the 2nd round Denham Brown was also drafted by the Seattle SuperSonics . This made UConn the first college in NBA draft history to ever select five players in the first two draft rounds of a year.
Players not drafted
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Louis Amundson ( United States ), University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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JJ Barea ( Puerto Rico ), Northeastern University
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Brad Buckman ( United States ), University of Texas at Austin
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Nik Caner-Medley ( United States ), University of Maryland, College Park
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Chris Copeland ( United States ), University of Colorado at Boulder
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Mike Gansey ( United States ), West Virginia University
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Thomas Earl Gardner ( United States ), University of Missouri
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Justin Gray ( United States ), Wake Forest University
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Eric Hicks ( United States ), University of Cincinnati
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Daniel Horton ( United States ), University of Michigan
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Gerry McNamara ( United States ), Syracuse University
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Pops Mensah-Bonsu ( England ), George Washington University
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Steven Smith ( United States ), La Salle University
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Kevin Pittsnogle ( United States ), West Virginia University
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Allan Ray ( United States ), Villanova University
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Curtis Stinson ( United States ), Iowa State University
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CJ Watson ( United States ), University of Tennessee