With the No. 4 overall pick in the 2019 Draft, the Los Angeles Lakers selected De’Andre Hunter, though he will go to the Atlanta Hawks after a proposed trade that went through just before the draft started. He becomes the first Virginia player to go in the first round of the draft since Justin Anderson went No. 21 to the Dallas Mavericks in 2015, and the first to go in the top-10 of the draft since Olden Polynice went No. 8 overall to the Chicago Bulls in 1987.
The Hawks traded up to get Hunter at No. 4, giving up the No.