page_title: 1998 NBA draft
section_title: Notable undrafted players
hierarchical_section_title: 1998 NBA draft / Notable undrafted players
caption_attribution_description: שארונאס (שאראס) יאסיקביציוס צולם על-ידי אבי קדמי This picture was taken by Avi Kedmi
context_page_description: The 1998 NBA draft took place on June 24, 1998, at General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. This draft helped turn around three struggling franchises: the Dallas Mavericks, the Sacramento Kings, and the Toronto Raptors.
  The Mavericks, despite having a talented nucleus of Jason Kidd, Jamal Mashburn and Jimmy Jackson in the mid-1990s, had not had a winning season since 1989-90, which was also the last time they made the playoffs. By the end of the 1997 season, all three players were traded and it was time to rebuild. With the sixth selection in 1998, they drafted Robert Traylor and quickly traded him to the Milwaukee Bucks for Dirk Nowitzki and Pat Garrity. They then traded Garrity in a package to the Phoenix Suns for Steve Nash. With Nash and Nowitzki, the Mavericks quickly went from a lottery team in the late 1990s to a perennial playoff contender throughout the 2000s. Nowitzki went on to win the 2011 NBA Finals with Dallas without Nash, but with Kidd.
  Meanwhile, the Raptors were a recent expansion team that had failed to win more than 30 games in its first three seasons.
context_section_description: These players were not selected in the 1998 NBA Draft but have played at least one game in the NBA.
caption: Šarūnas Jasikevičius was not drafted but later played in the NBA and is regarded as one of Europe's all-time greatest basketball players.
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