RENO, Nev. Former Nevada players Nick Fazekas and Ramon Sessions were taken in the second round of the 2007 National Basketball Association Draft, held Thursday night at Madison Square Garden in New York City.
Fazekas was taken by the Dallas Mavericks as the 34th overall pick, while Sessions went to the Milwaukee Bucks as the 56th overall pick. That marks the first time two Wolf Pack players have been drafted by the NBA in the same year since Johnny High and Edgar Jones were both selected in the second round of the 1979 NBA Draft. That year, High went to the Phoenix Suns and Jones was drafted by the Milwaukee Bucks.
Fazekas and Sessions are also the first Wolf Pack players to be drafted since Kirk Snyder became the first first-round draft pick in school history in 2004. Snyder was taken as the 16th pick overall by the Utah Jazz.
Sessions, a 6-3, 190-pound junior guard from Myrtle Beach, S.C., was a second-team All-WAC selection and one of 17 finalists for the 2006-07 Bob Cousy Point Guard of the Year Award. He led the team in assists for the third consecutive season and ranked second in the WAC with 4.68 assists per game. This season, he also ranked third on the team and 14th in the WAC in scoring at 12.3 points per game.
In his three seasons at Nevada, Sessions helped the Wolf Pack to three WAC regular-season championships and three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. He finishes his career ranked second in the Wolf Pack career record books with 478 assists and ninth with 113 steals. The 2005 WAC Freshman of the Year, Sessions also scored 850 points in his career.
Fazekas, a 6-11, 240-pound senior forward from Arvada, Colo., was named the Western Athletic Conference Player of the Year in each of his last three seasons, becoming the second player in league history to earn the award three consecutive years, and earned All-America honors as a senior. He lead Nevada to four consecutive WAC regular-season titles and NCAA Tournament berths, and joined by fellow senior Kyle Shiloh, ended his basketball career as the winningest player in school history with a 106-27 record in his four years at Nevada.
One of three players in the country to average at least 20 points and 10 rebounds, Fazekas ranked second in the WAC and 19th in the nation in scoring with 20.4 points per game and led the conference and finished fifth in the NCAA in rebounding at 11.1 boards per contest in 2006-07. Nevada’s career-leading scorer with 2,464 points and its second-leading rebounder with 1,254 boards, he became the first player in school history to score at least 2,000 points and pull down 1,000 rebounds in his career. Fazekas also finished third in scoring and second in rebounding in the WAC career recordbook.
