Tonight will be the seventh time that the first round of the NBA draft has been held on June 26. Here’s a look at the players selected by the Hawks in the previous six occasions, and some other notables selected that year:
1991: Stacey Augmon, UNLV (first round, No. 9 overall); Anthony Avent, Seton Hall (first round, 15th overall); Rodney Monroe, N.C. State (second round, 30th overall)
Augmon averaged 13.7 points in five seasons with the Hawks. Traded to the Pistons in 1996 and would eventually play 15 seasons in the league.
Avent was traded five days after the draft and eventually would play six seasons in the league.
Monroe was a three-time All-ACC selection who scored 2,551 points with the Wolfpack, but averaged only 3.4 points in 38 career NBA games.
The first pick in the draft was Larry Johnson, Augmon’s college teammate and one of three UNLV players selected in the first round. The No. 2 pick was Georgia Tech star Kenny Anderson and the No. 4 pick -- by the Denver Nuggets -- was Georgetown center Dikembe Mutombo.
After signing with the Hawks as a free agent in 1996, Mutombo was a three-time NBA defensive player of the year in five seasons in Atlanta. His No. 55 jersey has been retired by the franchise and he was elected to the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame in 2015.
1996: Priest Lauderdale, Central State (first round, 28th overall)
The 7-foot-4 center averaged 3.2 points in 35 games during his rookie season with the Hawks. Lauderdale played 39 games with Denver the next season, his final one in the league.
Allen Iverson was the first pick, former Mr. Georgia Basketball Shareef Abdur-Rahim was selected third and Kobe Bryant was the 13th pick. Georgia’s Shandon Anderson was the 54th of the 58 picks in the draft and would play 10 seasons in the league, winning a title with Miami in 2006
2002: David Andersen, Australia (second round, 37th overall)
The Australian didn’t make his NBA debut until the 2009-10 season, his first of two seasons in the league.
The first pick of the draft was Yao Ming and the final first-round pick (guard Dan Dickau) eventually landed in Atlanta after a draft-night trade. He averaged 3.2 points over 73 games with the Hawks.
Yao Ming was selected No. 1 in the draft while the ninth, 10th and 23rd picks (Amar’e Stoudamire, Caron Butler and Tayshaun Prince) each played 14 seasons in the league.
2003: Boris Diaw, France (first round, 21st overall); Travis Hansen, BYU (second round, 37th overall)
Diaw played two seasons in Atlanta before he was included in a trade that brought Joe Johnson to Atlanta in 2005. Averaged 8.6 points over a 14-year NBA career.
Hansen played all of his 41 career NBA games with the Hawks in the 2003-04 season.
The top pick in the 2003 draft – LeBron James – just completed his 21st season.
Other notable second-round picks … five slots after Hansen, Orlando selected Zaza Pachulia – who spent eight of his 16 NBA seasons in Atlanta.
And the 51st pick in 2003 was a sharpshooter from Creighton named Kyle Korver, a 17-year NBA veteran now a part of the Hawks’ brain trust who will pick first in tonight’s draft.
2008: No picks in first or second round
2014: Adreian Payne, Michigan State (first round, 15th overall); Edy Tavares (second round, 43rd overall)
The former Michigan State star played only three games with the Hawks and 107 in a four-year NBA career. Tavares played 12 of his 13 career NBA games with the Hawks.
Two current Hawks -- Clint Capela and Bogdan Bogdanovic -- were selected with the 25th and 27th picks in the draft.
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