DerMarr Johnson
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| Position | Small forward |
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| Nickname | DJ |
| Height | 6 ft 9 in (2.06 m) |
| Weight | 215 lb (98 kg) |
| Team | Denver Nuggets |
| Nationality |  United States |
| Born | May 5, 1980 (age 26) Washington, DC |
| College | Cincinnati |
| Draft | 6st overall, 2000 Atlanta Hawks |
| Pro career | 2000–present |
| Former teams | Atlanta Hawks (2000–2002) New York Knicks (2003–2004) |
| Awards | 2000 Conference USA Freshman of the Year 2000 All-Conference USA 3rd Team |
DerMarr Miles Johnson (born May 5, 1980 in Washington, D.C.) is an American basketball player currently with the Denver Nuggets of the NBA.
After attending the University of Cincinnati with future NBA players Kenyon Martin, Ruben Patterson, Kenny Satterfield, and draftee Steve Logan, he was selected sixth overall by the Atlanta Hawks in the 2000 NBA Draft. In two seasons with the team he averaged 6.7 points and 2.8 rebounds per game. On September 13, 2002, he was involved in a serious car accident that sidelined him for the entire 2002-03 NBA season. He returned to the league in October 2003 to sign with the Phoenix Suns only to be waived two weeks later without ever having played a game for them. He then moved on to the American Basketball Association's Long Beach Jam where he played 19 games, before rejoining the NBA, signing a contract with the New York Knicks. The following season, in 2004-05, he rejuvenated his career with the Nuggets, participating in 71 games, and averaging 7.1 points on 49.9 percent field goal shooting.
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Johnson stated that Michael Jordan could not contain him on a basketball court. "I don't think he could stop me from getting to the hole. Not with my crossover. I'm going to try to dunk on anybody, and he's too smart to try to block a dunk. At least I hope he's smarter than that."[1]
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| 2000 NBA Draft | ||
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| First Round Kenyon Martin | Stromile Swift | Darius Miles | Marcus Fizer | Mike Miller | DerMarr Johnson | Chris Mihm | Jamal Crawford | Joel Przybilla | Keyon Dooling | Jérome Moïso | Etan Thomas | Courtney Alexander | Mateen Cleaves | Jason Collier | Hidayet Türkoğlu | Desmond Mason | Quentin Richardson | Jamaal Magloire | Speedy Claxton | Morris Peterson | Donnell Harvey | DeShawn Stevenson | Dalibor Bagarić | Jake Tsakalidis | Mamadou N'diaye | Primož Brezec | Erick Barkley | Mark Madsen |
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| Second Round Marko Jarić | Dan Langhi | A. J. Guyton | Jake Voskuhl | Khalid El-Amin | Mike Smith | Soumaila Samake | Eddie House | Eduardo Nájera | Lavor Postell | Hanno Möttölä | Chris Carrawell | Olumide Oyedeji | Michael Redd | Brian Cardinal | Jabari Smith | DeeAndre Hulett | Josip Sesar | Mark Karcher | Jason Hart | Kaniel Dickens | Igor Rakočević | Ernest Brown | Dan McClintock | Cory Hightower | Chris Porter | Jaquay Walls | Scoonie Penn | Pete Mickeal |
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