SEATTLE (AP) - Terrence Williams' star track moved farther east, to the opposite coast. Austin Daye's bold move paid off.

And Jon Brockman's dream just came true.

They were the Washington state players selected in Thursday's NBA draft.

Williams was a four-year starter at Seattle's Rainier Beach High School before he left to star for coach Rick Pitino at Louisville. On Thursday, the New Jersey Nets took him 11th overall.

"I learned so much under Coach P, and I will learn at the next level," Williams said from the draft in New York, shortly after the 21-year-old was the first state player picked.

The second was Daye. The Detroit Pistons selected the Gonzaga sophomore 15th overall, about where Daye thought he'd get picked.

Weeks ago, the lanky, 6-foot-10 forward decided to stay in the draft and ignore critics who said he needed to get bulkier and mature physically by staying with the Zags.

Instead, he became the fourth player in Gonzaga history chosen in the first round, the first since Adam Morrison three years ago.

Pistons president of basketball operations Joe Dumars likes Daye's family tree. Austin is the son of former NBA player Darren Daye, who was drafted by Washington in 1983 and also played in Chicago and Boston during his five-year career.

"Those kids grow up around basketball and they see behind the scenes more than the two hours of play, how hard you work in the offseason and the sacrifices you make," Dumars said. "It does help because they come in much better prepared for this world."

Brockman, the Washington Huskies' bullish, relentless power forward, was selected by Portland in the second round, at No. 38 overall. The Trail Blazers then traded him to the Sacramento Kings in a prearranged deal.

So Brockman will be reunited yet again with Sacramento center Spencer Hawes, his former teammate with a Seattle-area AAU team and with the Huskies.

"Man, it's truly a dream come true," Brockman said in a telephone interview amid loud cheers from family and friends at his home in suburban Snohomish.

"I don't think I could ask for a better situation. I played alongside Spencer on our AAU team, college team and now in the NBA. I don't know if that's ever been done.

"I'm overwhelmed."

Washington coach Lorenzo Romar was so proud of the blue-collar, broken-nosed Brockman being among only 60 players in the world who got picked in the short, two-round talent grab, one could almost see his grin through the telephone from Brockman's house Thursday night.

"We are ecstatic," said Romar, a former NBA player. "It's a lesson for a lot of kids: If you rebound, coaches will find a way to put you on the floor. And that goes all the way to the highest level."

Brockman spurned a scholarship offer from Duke coming out of Snohomish and chose to stay home with the team he grew up following. That worked out OK - he became the only player in UW history to surpass 1,700 points and 1,200 rebounds.

He then made his own bold move leading into the draft. Against his rugged, competitive instincts, Brockman took the advice of his newly hired agents and went into hiding after wowing NBA scouts at a pre-draft camp in Portsmouth, Va., in early April. He skipped another camp for prospects in Chicago amid whispers he was trying to hide an injury.

"It was definitely a test in our relationship between me and my agent," Brockman said. "It was tough for me - I'm not the kind of guy who goes into hiding.

"It was like being that forbidden fruit, almost like something (scouts) couldn't have. They said it would work in my favor. And it did.

"Hard work can get people a long way."