1st Round
| Team | Player | College |
| 1. San Antonio | Tim Duncan | Wake Forest |
| 2. Philadelphia (a) | Keith Van Horn | Utah |
| 3. Boston | Chauncey Billups | Colorado |
| 4. Vancouver | Antonio Daniels | Bowling Green |
| 5. Denver | Tony Battie | Texas Tech |
| 6. Boston (from Dallas) | Ron Mercer | Kentucky |
| 7. New Jersey (a) | Tim Thomas | Villanova |
| 8. Golden State | Adonal Foyle | Colgate |
| 9. Toronto | Tracy McGrady | Mount Zion Academy (HS) |
| 10. Milwaukee (b) | Danny Fortson | Cincinnati |
| 11. Sacramento | Olivier Saint-Jean | San Jose State |
| 12. Indiana | Austin Croshere | Providence |
| 13. Cleveland | Derek Anderson | Kentucky |
| 14. LA Clippers | Maurice Taylor | Michigan |
| 15. Dallas (c) (from Minnesota) | Kelvin Cato | Iowa State |
| 16. Cleveland (from Phoenix) | Brevin Knight | Stanford |
| 17. Orlando | Johnny Taylor | Tennessee-Chattanooga |
| 18. Portland (c) | Chris Anstey | (Australia) |
| 19. Detroit | Scot Pollard | Kansas |
| 20. Minnesota (from Charlotte) | Paul Grant | Wisconsin |
| 21. New Jersey (from Lakers) (a) | Anthony Parker | Bradley |
| 22. Atlanta | Ed Gray | California |
| 23. Seattle (d) | Bobby Jackson | Minnesota |
| 24. Houston | Rodrick Rhodes | USC |
| 25. New York | John Thomas | Minnesota |
| 26. Miami | Charles Smith | New Mexico |
| 27. Utah | Jacque Vaughn | Kansas |
| 28. Chicago | Keith Booth | Maryland |
Draft
Notes:
*Washington forfeited its 1st round pick as compensation for re-signing
free-agent Juwan Howard in 1996.
(a) Philadelphia traded Don MacLean, Michael Cage, Lucious Harris and Keith
Van Horn to New Jersey for Jim Jackson, Eric Montross, Tim Thomas, and Anthony
Parker.
(b) Milwaukee traded Johnny Newman, Joe Wolf and the rights to Danny Fortson
to Denver for Ervin Johnson.
(c) Dallas traded Kelvin Cato to Portland for Chris Anstey and cash.
(d) Seattle traded Bobby Jackson to Denver for 2nd round pick James Cotton
and a 1998 2nd round pick.
2nd Round
| Team | Player | College |
| 30. Houston | Serge Zwikker | North Carolina |
| 31. Miami | Mark Sanford | Washington |
| 32. Detroit | Charles O’Bannon | UCLA |
| 33. Denver | James Cotton | Long Beach State |
| 34. Philadelphia | Marko Milic | (Slovenia) |
| 35. Dallas | Bubba Wells | Austin Peay |
| 36. Philadelphia | Kebu Stewart | Cal-State Bakersfield |
| 37. Philadelphia | James Collins | Florida State |
| 38. Golden State | Marc Jackson | Temple |
| 39. Milwaukee | Jerald Honeycutt | Tulane |
| 40. Sacramento | Anthony Johnson | College of Charleston |
| 41. Seattle | Eddie Elisma | Georgia Tech |
| 42. Denver | Jason Lawson | Villanova |
| 43. Phoenix | Stephen Jackson | Butler CC (Kansas) |
| 44. Minnesota | Gordon Malone | West Virginia |
| 45. Cleveland | Cedric Henderson | Memphis |
| 46. Washington | God Shammgod | Providence |
| 47. Orlando | Eric Washington | Alabama |
| 48. Portland | Alvin Williams | Villanova |
| 49. Washington | Predrag Drobnjak | (Yugoslavia) |
| 50. Atlanta | Alain Digbeau | (France) |
| 51. Atlanta | Chris Crawford | Marquette |
| 52. LA Lakers | DeJuan Wheat | Louisville |
| 53. Vancouver | C.J. Bruton | Indian Hills CC (Iowa) |
| 54. Lakers | Paul Rogers | Gonzaga LA |
| 55. Seattle | Mark Blount | Pittsburgh |
| 56. Boston | Ben Pepper | (Australia) |
| 57. Utah | Nate Erdmann | Oklahoma |
| 58. Chicago | Roberto Cueñas | (Spain) |
