A random drawing determined who was awarded the first pick, which went to the Reno Bighorns.[1] The teams switched their draft order each succeeding round. The available players to draft came from a list of 55 unprotected players who had competed in the NBADL in 2007–08.[1]
The first overall draft pick in the expansion draft was Damone Brown, a 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) guard who had played for the Sioux Falls Skyforce the season before.[1] Brown had played collegiately at Syracuse and then spent three years playing professional basketball before his 2008 NBADL Expansion Draft selection.[2] He was also one of three players to have also been chosen in an NBA draft (2001); the others include Randy Livingston (1996) and Dahntay Jones (2003).[3][4][5] Two players, Livingston and Brian Chase, had previously been selected as NBA Development League All-Stars. Chase was a 2007 All-Star, while Livingston earned the honor in 2008.[6][7] The only non-American player chosen was Mustafa Al-Sayyad, who was born in Khartoum, Sudan and played college basketball at Fresno State.[8]
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^"Damone Brown". NBA Media Ventures, LLC. Turner Sports Interactive, Inc. 2010. Archived from the original on November 9, 2012. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
^"1996 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
^"2001 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Archived from the original on November 15, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
^"2003 NBA Draft". basketball-reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. 2010. Archived from the original on December 5, 2010. Retrieved November 8, 2010.
