1984 NBA draft
It included first pick Akeem Olajuwon, Michael Jordan, Charles Barkley, and John Stockton.
[7] The remaining first-round picks and the subsequent rounds were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win–loss record in the previous season.
The Chicago Bulls used the third pick to draft Naismith and Wooden College Player of the Year Michael Jordan from the University of North Carolina.
[52] Jordan's teammate at North Carolina, Sam Perkins, was drafted fourth by the Dallas Mavericks.
[52] Barkley and Stockton never won an NBA championship, but both players received numerous awards and honors.
[58] Both Robertson and Olajuwon are among only four players in NBA history who have ever achieved the extremely rare feat of recording a quadruple double.
[62][63][64] However, it was also marked by the Blazers' selection of Sam Bowie, considered one of the biggest draft busts in NBA history.
However, Schmidt turned down the offers to play in the NBA and stayed to play in Italy and later in Brazil, in order to continue representing his country in international competitions, which was not allowed until NBA's agreement with the International Basketball Federation (FIBA) in 1990 allowing their players to represent their countries on a national level.
[75] University of Houston track and field Olympic Champion Carl Lewis, who had never played college basketball, was drafted by the Chicago Bulls with the 208th pick in the 10th round.
[77] In the fifth round, the Portland Trail Blazers drafted Mike Whitmarsh, who starred for the University of San Diego in both basketball and volleyball, with the 111th pick.
He then left basketball to play beach volleyball, where he achieved greater success, including a silver medal in the Olympics.
[78] The final pick in the 1984 Draft, number 228 by the Boston Celtics, was Dan Trant of Clark University.
Trant was working in his office at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, and was killed in the terrorist attacks that day.
Starting from 1985 onward, multiple undrafted players from each year would enter the NBA, with more of them coming after the league decreased the number of rounds from the draft from 10 to the current two.
[8][81] ^ 4: Even though Tim McCormick was a senior, he had one year of college eligibility remaining and thus had to apply for early entry.
