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Chris Webber was drafted first overall by the Orlando Magic in the 1993 NBA Draft.
The Michigan Wolverines men's basketball team, representing the University of Michigan, has had 76 players drafted into the National Basketball Association (NBA) since the league began holding the yearly event in 1947. Each NBA franchise seeks to add new players through an annual draft. The NBA uses a draft lottery to determine the first three picks of the NBA draft; the 14 teams that did not make the playoffs the previous year are eligible to participate. After the first three picks are decided, the rest of the teams pick in reverse order of their win–loss record. To be eligible for the NBA draft, a player in the United States must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft and must be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class.
The drafts held between 1947 and 1949 were held by the Basketball Association of America (BAA). The BAA became the National Basketball Association after absorbing teams from the National Basketball League in the fall of 1949. Official NBA publications include the BAA Drafts as part of the NBA's draft history. From 1967 until the ABA–NBA merger in 1976, the American Basketball Association (ABA) held its own draft.
Through the 2023 NBA draft, a Wolverine has been chosen first overall two times in the history of the event, Cazzie Russell in 1966 and Chris Webber in 1993. Thirty-one Wolverines have been drafted in the first round of the NBA Draft, with Kobe Bufkin being the latest in 2023. The most Wolverines selected in the first round of a single NBA Draft is three, which happened in 1990. Six players have been selected to either an ABA or NBA All-Star Game, four have been a member of an NBA or ABA championship winning team, and three have achieved both. Two former Wolverines have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
Selected to an All-Star Game and won an NBA/ABA championship
Cazzie Russell was drafted first overall by the New York Knicks in the 1966 NBA Draft.Glen Rice was drafted fourth overall by the Miami Heat in the 1989 NBA Draft.Juwan Howard was drafted fifth overall by the Washington Bullets in the 1994 NBA Draft.Jamal Crawford was drafted eighth overall by the Cleveland Cavaliers in the 2000 NBA Draft.Trey Burke was drafted ninth overall by the Minnesota Timberwolves in the 2013 NBA Draft.Fran Wagner was drafted eighth overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2021 NBA Draft.Jett Howard was drafted eleventh overall by the Orlando Magic in the 2023 NBA Draft.
"Article X, Section 1(b)(i)". 2005 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement. National Basketball Players Association. Archived from the original on January 25, 2010. Retrieved March 20, 2021.
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