2008 Rankings by Position - The Draft Review

Point Guards

#	Team	Player	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
1.	Memphis	Derrick Rose	FR.	6-4	195
2.	Arizona	Jerryd Bayless	FR.	6-3	200
3.	UCLA	Russell Westbrook	SO.	6-3	190
4.	Texas	DJ Augustin	SO.	5-11	180
5.	Kansas	Mario Chalmers	JR.	6-1	195
6.	Mississippi St.	Jamont Gordon	JR.	6-4	225
7.	Olimpija	Goran Dragic	INT.	6-4	180
8.	IUPUI	George Hill	JR.	6-2	181
9.	Idaho	Mike Taylor	1986	6-2	165
10.	Virginia	Sean Singletary	SR.	6-0	185

Darkhorse Sleeper: Bruce Price, 6-3 205 - Tennessee State

Viable Options:

Ramel Bradley, 6-3 190 - Kentucky
Jamar Butler, 6-1 195 - Ohio St.
Dominique Kirk, 6-4 185 - Texas A&M
Derrick Low, 6-2 196 - Washington St.
Bo McCalebb 6-0 180 - New Orleans
Mickael Mokongo 5-11 175 - Gravelines (France)
Drew Neitzel 6-0 180 - Michigan St.
Russell Robinson, 6-1 200 - Kansas

Shooting Guards

#	Team	Player	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
1.	USC	O.J. Mayo	FR.	6-4	210
2.	Indiana	Eric Gordon	FR.	6-4	215
3.	Kansas	Brandon Rush	JR.	6-6	210
4.	Memphis	Chris Douglas-Roberts	JR.	6-6	200
5.	Western Kentucky	Courtney Lee	SR.	6-5	190
6.	Washington St.	Kyle Weaver	SR.	6-6	205
7.	Arkansas	Sonny Weems	SR.	6-6	201
8.	Vanderbilt	Shan Foster	SR.	6-6	205
9.	VMI	Reggie Williams	SR.	6-6	195
10.	Khimki	Anton Ponkrashov	INT.	6-7	210

Darkhorse Sleeper: Bruce Taylor, 6-5 210 - Oregon

Viable Options:

Jaycee Carroll 6-2 175 - Utah State
Geary Claxton, 6-5 220 - Penn St.
P.J. Couisnard 6-4 215 - Wichita State
Joe Crawford, 6-5 210 - Kentucky
J.R. Giddens, 6-5 200 - New Mexico
Malik Hairston 6-6 220 - Oregon
Brian Laing, 6-4 215 - Seton Hall
Chris Lofton, 6-2 200 - Tennessee
Rob McKiver, 6-3 190 - Houston
DeMarcus Nelson, 6-4 200 - Duke
Richard Roby, 6-6 200 - Colorado

Small Forwards

#	Team	Player	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
1.	Milano	Danilo Gallinari	INT.	6-9	210
2.	West Virginia	Joe Alexander	JR.	6-8	230
3.	Le Mans	Nicolas Batum	INT.	6-8	210
4.	Syracuse	Donte' Green	FR.	6-11	225
5.	Kansas St.	Bill Walker	FR.	6-6	225
6.	Saint Joseph's	Pat Calathes	SR.	6-10	210
7.	USC	Davon Jefferson	FR.	6-8	225
8.	UMASS	Gary Forbes	SR.	6-7	220
9.	Maryland	James Gist	SR.	6-8	225
10.	Hillsborough C.C.	Keith Brumbaugh	SO.	6-9	210

Darkhorse Sleeper: Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, 6-7 230 - UCLA

Viable Options:

Will Daniels 6-8 225 - Rhode Island
Marcus Dove 6-9 215 - Oklahoma State
Tadija Dragicevic 6-9 220 - Crvena Zvezda (Serbia)
Josh Duncan 6-9 230 - Xavier
Patrick Ewing Jr., 6-8 240 - Georgetown
Marcel Jones, 6-8 220 - Oregon St.
Maarty Leunen, 6-9 220 - Oregon
Dusan Sakota 6-11 215 - Panionios (Greece)
Deron Washington, 6-7 205 - Virginia Tech

Power Forwards

#	Team	Player	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
1.	Kansas St.	Michael Beasley	FR.	6-9	235
2.	UCLA	Kevin Love	FR.	6-9	260
3.	LSU	Anthony Randolph	FR.	6-11	200
4.	Ohio St.	Kosta Koufos	FR.	7-0	265
5.	Kansas	Darrell Arthur	SO.	6-9	230
6.	Florida	Marreese Speights	SO.	6-10	245
7.	North Carolina St.	J.J. Hickson	FR.	6-9	242
8.	Rider	Jason Thompson	SR.	6-11	250
9.	L'Hospitalet	Serge Ibaka	INT.	6-10	220
10.	California	Ryan Anderson	SO.	6-10	235

Darkhorse Sleeper: Othello Hunter, 6-8 225 - Ohio State

Viable Options:

Joey Dorsey, 6-9 260 - Memphis
Kentrell Gransberry, 6-9 270 - South Florida
DeVon Hardin, 6-11 250 - California
Richard Hendrix, 6-8 250 - Alabama
Darnell Jackson, 6-8 250 - Kansas
Shawn James, 6-10 225 - Duquesne
Jospeh Jones 6-9 250 - Texas A&M
James Mays 6-9 235 - Clemson
Shaun Pruitt, 6-10 240 - Illinois
Charles Rhodes, 6-8 240 - Mississippi St.
Walter Sharpe, 6-9 245 - UAB
Ante Tomic, 7-1 235 - Zagreb (Croatia)
D.J. White, 6-9 251 - Indiana

Centers

#	Team	Player	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
1.	Stanford	Brook Lopez	SO.	7-0	260
2.	Texas A&M	DeAndre Jordan	FR.	7-0	260
3.	Nevada	Javale McGee	SO.	6-11	235
4.	Stanford	Robin Lopez	SO.	7-0	255
5.	Georgetown	Roy Hibbert	SR.	7-2	278
6.	Hyeres-Toulon	Alexis Ajinca	INT.	7-1	240
7.	Ulker	Omer Asik	INT.	7-0	220
8.	Partizan	Nikola Pekovic	INT.	6-10	250
9.	Cairns Taipans	Nathan Jawai	INT.	6-10	285
10.	Ulker	Semih Erden	INT.	6-11	240

Darkhorse Sleeper: C.J. Giles, 6-11 240 - Oregon State

Viable Options:

Chris Daniels 7-0 265 - Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Romain Duport 7-1 220 - Le Harve (France)
Mickell Gladness, 6-11 202 - Alabama A&M
Vladimir Golubovic, 7-1 250 - Vojvodina (Serbia)
Rafael Hettsheimeir, 6-11 240 - Pujol Lleida (Spain)
Sasha Kaun, 6-11 245 - Kansas
Aleks Maric, 6-11 270 - Nebraska
Trent Plaisted, 6-11 245 - Brigham Young
Peja Samardziski 7-1 265 - FMP Zeleznik (Serbia)

Centers

#	Team	Player	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
1.	Ohio St.	Greg Oden	FR.	7-0	280
2.	Washington	Spencer Hawes	FR.	7-0	230
3.	Girona	Marc Gasol	INT.	7-1	270
4.	Pittsburgh	Aaron Gray	SR.	7-0	270
5.	Wake Forest	Kyle Visser	SR.	6-11	255
6.	Siroki	Stanko Barac	INT.	7-1	235
7.	Slovan	Mirza Begic	INT.	7-1	220
8.	Mavpy	Kyrylo Fesenko	INT.	7-0	235
9.	Northern Illinois	James Hughes	SR.	6-10	217
10.	Syracuse	Darryl Watkins	SR.	6-11	258

Darkhorse Sleeper: Sidiki Sidibe, 7-0 270 - Real Madrid II

Viable Options:

Luksa Andric, 6-10 230 - Cibona (Croatia)
Brian Cusworth 7-0 255 - Harvard
Courtney Sims, 6-11 245 - Michigan
Ian Vouyoukas, 6-10 270 - St. Louis

Players the NBA listed as Draft Prospects in programs and media guides.

Player	Team	Draft Class	Ht.	Wt.
Brian Butch	Wisconsin	SR.	6-11	235
Hakan Demirel	Fenerbahce (Turkey)	INT.	6-3	190
Frank Elegar	Drexel	SR.	6-9	225
Mike Green	Butler	SR.	6-1	184
Kyle Hines	UNC-Greensboro	SR.	6-6	245
Mantas Kalnietis	Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania)	INT.	6-5	200
Igor Milosevic	Crvena Zvezda (Serbia)	INT.	6-4	195
David Padgett	Louisville	SR.	6-11	250
Mykal Riley	Alabama	SR.	6-6	185
Brian Roberts	Dayton	SR.	6-1	173
Damjan Rudez	Split (Croatia)	INT.	6-10	200
Nikita Shabalkin	Khimky (Russia)	INT.	6-9	230
Uros Tripkovic	Partizan (Serbia)	SR.	6-5	190
Mark Tyndale	Temple	SR.	6-5	210

Details: Written by The Draft Review; Published: 28 November 2007; Created: 02 November 2008; Last Updated: 22 March 2024