1st Round Draft Pick History
Last Updated: 12/20/2006
| Year | Player | School/Country |
| 2006 | Maurice Ager | Michigan State |
| 2005 | None | |
| 2004 | None | |
| 2003 | Josh Howard | Wake Forest |
| 2002 | None | |
| 2001 | None | |
| 2000 | Etan Thomas | Syracuse |
| 1999 | None | |
| 1998 | Robert Traylor | Michigan |
| 1997 | Kelvin Cato | Iowa State |
| 1996 | Samaki Walker | Louisville |
| 1995 | Cherokee Parks | Duke |
| Loren Meyer | Iowa State | |
| 1994 | Jason Kidd | California |
| Tony Dumas | Missouri-Kansas City | |
| 1993 | Jamal Mashburn | Kentucky |
| 1992 | Jim Jackson | Ohio State |
| 1991 | Doug Smith | Missouri |
| 1990 | None | |
| 1989 | Randy White | Louisiana Tech |
| 1988 | None | |
| 1987 | Jim Farmer | Alabama |
| 1986 | Roy Tarpley | Michigan |
| 1985 | Detlef Schrempf | Washington |
| Bill Wennington | St. John's | |
| Uwe Blab | Indiana | |
| 1984 | Sam Perkins | North Carolina |
| Terence Stansbury | Temple | |
| 1983 | Dale Ellis | Tennessee |
| Derek Harper | Illinois | |
| 1982 | Bill Garnett | Illinois |
| 1981 | Mark Aguirre | DePaul |
| Rolando Blackman | Kansas State | |
| 1980 | Kiki Vandeweghe | UCLA |