Kobe Sanders could be the 17th Nevada men’s basketball player selected in the NBA draft, which will be held Wednesday and Thursday at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. Sanders is projected as a potential second-round draft pick after earning third-team All-Mountain West honors with the Wolf Pack last season after spending his first four years at Cal Poly. The 6-foot-8 wing player is rated among the draft’s top-60 prospects by ESPN and The Athletic. Below is a list of Nevada players who have been NBA draft picks.<\/p>\n
Nevada players picked in NBA draft<\/p>\n
2020: Jalen Harris (second round, 59th overall) \u2014 Toronto Raptors<\/p>\n
2019: Cody Martin (second round, 36th overall) \u2014 Charlotte Hornets<\/p>\n
2010: Luke Babbitt (first round, 16th overall) \u2014 Minnesota Timberwolves (traded to Portland Trail Blazers)<\/p>\n
2010: Armon Johnson (second round, 34th overall) \u2014 Portland Trail Blazers<\/p>\n
2008: JaVale McGee (first round, 18th overall) \u2014 Washington Wizards<\/p>\n
2007: Nick Fazekas (second round, 34th overall) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n
2007: Ramon Sessions (second round, 56th overall) \u2014 Milwaukee Bucks<\/p>\n
2004: Kirk Snyder (first round, 16th overall) \u2014 Utah Jazz<\/p>\n
1983: Sam Mosley (fourth round, 89th overall) \u2014 Phoenix Suns <\/p>\n
1983: Billy Allen (sixth round, 125th overall) \u2014 Dallas Mavericks<\/p>\n
1982: B.B. Fontenet (sixth round, 122nd overall) \u2014 Chicago Bulls<\/p>\n
1979: Johnny High (second round, 24th overall) \u2014 Phoenix Suns<\/p>\n
1979: Edgar Jones (second round, 31st overall) \u2014 Milwaukee Bucks<\/p>\n
1976: Pete Padgett (sixth round, 88th overall) \u2014 Atlanta Hawks<\/p>\n
1974: Marvin Buckley (10th round, 172nd overall) \u2014 Golden State Warriors<\/p>\n
1970: Alex Boyd (13th round, 199th overall) \u2014 Portland Trail Blazers<\/p>\n
Of those 16 Nevada players who have been selected in the NBA draft, 10 ended up playing at least one game in the league, including each of the last eight. Nevada also has had four players appear in an NBA game after being undrafted, a list that includes Kevinn Pinkney, Caleb Martin, Cameron Oliver and David Wood. The draft starts at 5 p.m. Wednesday on ESPN\/ABC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kobe Sanders could be the 17th Nevada men’s basketball player selected in the NBA draft, which will be…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[28882,7264,7,3445,6,12,3446,25884,28881,7582],"class_list":{"0":"post-151397","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-all-mountain-west","9":"tag-barclays-center","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-kobe-sanders","12":"tag-nba","13":"tag-nba-draft","14":"tag-nevada-basketball","15":"tag-second-round-pick","16":"tag-top-60-prospects","17":"tag-wolf-pack"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114806906169826603","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}