The last Illinois player to get selected in the NBA Draft was Meyers Leonard in 2012. He was picked by the Portland Trail Blazers with the No. 11 pick in the first round. Side note, Leonard and Trail Blazers have advanced to the Western Conference Finals, which is awesome. Please take down the Warriors.
While Leonard was the most recent Illini player to get drafted, he isn’t going to be the last. Actually, Illinois is pretty much guaranteed to have at least one player selected in the 2020 NBA Draft. That player looks to be Ayo Dosunmu.
Ayo was projected to be a second-round pick in the 2019 NBA Draft but decided to come back to Illinois for one more season.