2017 NBA draft

2017 NBA draft
General information
Date(s)	June 22, 2017
Time	7:00 pm ET
Location	To be determined
Network(s)	ESPN
Overview
League	NBA
First selection	To be determined

The 2017 NBA draft will be held on June 22, 2017, at a location to be determined. It will be televised nationally by ESPN. The draft lottery will take place during the playoffs on May 16.

Eligibility and entrants

Main article: Eligibility for the NBA draft

The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's 2011 collective bargaining agreement. (CBA) with its player's union. The CBA that ended the 2011 lockout instituted no immediate changes to the draft, but called for a committee of owners and players to discuss future changes.

• All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players who are eligible for the 2017 draft, must be born on or before December 31, 1998.
• On January 13, 2016, the NCAA Division I council approved a new rule for that division that significantly changed the draft landscape for college players:
  • Declaration for the draft no longer results in automatic loss of college eligibility. As long as a player does not sign a contract with a professional team outside the NBA, or sign with an agent, he will retain college eligibility as long as he makes a timely withdrawal from the draft.
  • NCAA players now have until 10 days after the end of the NBA Draft Combine to withdraw from the draft. For 2016, the withdrawal date was May 25, about five weeks after the previous mid-April deadline.
  • NCAA players may participate in the draft combine, and will also be allowed to attend one tryout per year with each NBA team without losing college eligibility.
  • NCAA players may now enter and withdraw from the draft multiple times without loss of eligibility. Previously, the NCAA treated a second declaration of draft eligibility as a permanent loss of college eligibility.

The NBA has since expanded the draft combine to include players with remaining college eligibility (who, like players without college eligibility, can only attend by invitation).

Early entrants

Players who are not automatically eligible must declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft. For the 2017 draft, this date will fall on April 23. After that date "early entry" players may attend NBA pre-draft camps and individual team workouts to show off their skills and obtain feedback regarding their draft positions. Under the CBA a player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration date, which is 10 days before the draft. Under newly implemented NCAA rules, players have until May 24 (10 days after the draft combine) to withdraw from the draft and retain college eligibility.

A player who has hired an agent will forfeit his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted.

College underclassmen

Entering name into draft consideration: Players listed in bold text have publicly indicated that they have hired agents, or plan to do so, and are thus ineligible to return to NCAA basketball in 2017–18.

• Jarrett Allen – F, Texas (freshman)
• Ángel Delgado – F, Seton Hall (junior)
• Jawun Evans – G, Oklahoma State (sophomore)
• Markelle Fultz – G, Washington (freshman)
• Khadeen Carrington – G, Seton Hall (junior)
• Marcus Keene – G, Central Michigan (junior)
• Kyle Kuzma – F, Utah (junior)
• Tyler Lydon – F, Syracuse (sophomore)
• Austin Nichols – F, Virginia (junior)
• L. J. Peak – G, Georgetown (junior)
• Trevor Thompson – C, Ohio State (junior)
• Thomas Wilder – G, Western Michigan (junior)
• Ömer Yurtseven – C, NC State (freshman)

International players

International players that had declared this year and did not previously declare in another prior year can also drop out of the draft about 10 days before the draft begins on June 12.

Automatically eligible entrants

Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They have completed four years of their college eligibility.
• If they graduated from high school in the U.S., but did not enroll in a U.S. college or university, four years have passed since their high school class graduated.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team outside of the NBA, anywhere in the world, and have played under that contract.

Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They are least 22 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players born on or before December 31, 1995 are automatically eligible for the 2017 draft.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team outside of the NBA within the United States, and have played under that contract.

Other automatically eligible players

Player	Team	Note	Ref.
Terrence Ferguson	Adelaide 36ers (Australia)	Didn't attend college in 2016, playing professionally since 2016–17 season

Combine

Main article: NBA Draft Combine

The invitation-only NBA Draft Combine will be held in Chicago from May 9 to 14. The on-court element of the combine will take place on May 11 and 12.

Draft lottery

Main article: NBA Draft Lottery

The 2017 NBA draft lottery will be held on May 16.

External links

• Official site