the first overall draft pick in the expansion draft was damone brown, a guard who had played for the sioux falls skyforce the season before. brown had played collegiately at syracuse and then spent three years playing professional basketball before his 2008 nbadl expansion draft selection. he was also one of three players to have also been chosen in an nba draft (2001); the others include randy livingston (1996) and dahntay jones (2003). two players, livingston and brian chase, had previously been selected as nba development league all-stars. chase was a 2007 all-star, while livingston earned the honor in 2008. the only non-american player chosen was mustafa al-sayyad, who was born in khartoum, sudan and played college basketball at fresno state.