2016 NBA draft

2016 NBA draft
General information
Date(s)	June 23, 2016
Time	7:00 PM ET
Location	Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York
Network(s)	ESPN

The 2016 NBA draft will be held on June 23, 2016 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It will be televised nationally by ESPN. National Basketball Association (NBA) teams will take turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players. The draft lottery will also take place during the playoffs in May 2016.

Draft selections

PG

Point guard

SG

Shooting guard

SF

Small forward

PF

Power forward

C

Center

*	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game and All-NBA Team
+	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-Star Game
x	Denotes player who has been selected for at least one All-NBA Team
#	Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular season or playoff game

Eligibility and entrants

Main article: Eligibility for the NBA draft

The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's new 2011 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players 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 2016 draft, must be born on or before December 31, 1997.
• 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 will be 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 NBA team tryout per year 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 is now expected to expand the draft combine to include players with remaining college eligibility (who, like players without college eligibility, would have to be invited in order to attend).

Early entrants

Player 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 2016 draft, this date will fall on April 24. After this 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 25 (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. The CBA allows a player to withdraw from the draft twice; the 2016 NCAA rule change brought it in line with the CBA on this detail.

Notably, in a series of tweets on March 23, Kentucky head coach John Calipari said that every member of the 2015–16 team who was eligible to declare early—including the team's two walk-ons—would do so. The only underclass players who will not declare are Isaac Humphries and Tai Wynyard, who are ineligible for this draft because they were born in 1998.

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 2016–17.

• Abdul-Malik Abu – F, NC State (sophomore)
• Rosco Allen – F, Stanford (junior)
• Tony Anderson – F, Southeast Missouri State (freshman)
• Wade Baldwin IV – G, Vanderbilt (sophomore)
• Anthony Barber – G, NC State (junior)
• Malik Beasley – G/F, Florida State (freshman)
• DeAndre’ Bembry – G/F, Saint Joseph's (junior)
• Ben Bentil – F, Providence (sophomore)
• Antonio Blakeney – G, LSU (freshman)
• Jaron Blossomgame – F, Clemson (junior)
• Trevon Bluiett – G/F, Xavier (sophomore)
• Amida Brimah – C, Connecticut (junior)
• Kareem Canty – G, Auburn (junior)
• Robert Carter – F, Maryland (junior)
• Marquese Chriss – F, Washington (freshman)
• Cheick Diallo – F/C, Kansas (freshman)
• Kris Dunn – G, Providence (junior)
• Vince Edwards – F, Purdue (sophomore)
• Henry Ellenson – F, Marquette (freshman)
• Kay Felder – G, Oakland (junior)
• Brannen Greene – G/F, Kansas (junior)
• Daniel Hamilton – G/F, Connecticut (sophomore)
• Josh Hart - G, Villanova (junior)
• Brandon Ingram – F, Duke (freshman)
• Demetrius Jackson – G, Notre Dame (junior)
• Julian Jacobs – G, USC (junior)
• / Stefan Janković – F, Hawaii (junior)
• Kris Jenkins - F, Villanova (junior)
• Peter Jok – G, Iowa (junior)
• Que Johnson – G, Washington State (junior)
• Christian Jones – F, St. John's (junior)
• Damian Jones – F/C, Vanderbilt (junior)
• Derrick Jones – F, UNLV (freshman)
• Moses Kingsley – F/C, Arkansas (junior)*
• Skal Labissière – F/C, Kentucky (freshman)
• Dedric Lawson – F, Memphis (freshman)
• / Thon Maker – F/C, Athlete Institute (postgraduate) [Canada]
• Makai Mason – G, Yale (sophomore)
• Patrick McCaw – G, UNLV (sophomore)
• Jalen Moore – F, Utah State (junior)
• Dejounte Murray – G,Washington (freshman)
• Jamal Murray – G, Kentucky (freshman)
• Mamadou N'Diaye – C, UC Irvine (junior)
• Malik Newman – G, Mississippi State (freshman)
• Chris Obekpa – F, UNLV (junior)
• Goodluck Okonoboh – C, UNLV (sophomore)
• Chinanu Onuaku – F, Louisville (sophomore)
• Alec Peters – F, Valparaiso (junior)
• Jakob Pöltl – C, Utah (sophomore)
• Rodney Purvis – G, Connecticut (junior)
• Tim Quarterman – G, LSU (junior)
• Xavier Rathan-Mayes – G, Florida State (sophomore)
• Jalen Reynolds – F, Xavier (junior)
• Domantas Sabonis – C, Gonzaga (sophomore)
• Corey Sanders – G, Rutgers (freshman)
• Wayne Selden, Jr. – G, Kansas (junior)
• Pascal Siakam – F, New Mexico State (sophomore)
• Ben Simmons – F, LSU (freshman)
• Diamond Stone – C, Maryland (freshman)
• Caleb Swanigan – F, Purdue (freshman)
• Isaiah Taylor – G, Texas (junior)
• Trevor Thompson – C, Ohio State (sophomore)
• Melo Trimble – G, Maryland (sophomore)
• Tyler Ulis – G, Kentucky (sophomore)
• Aaron Valdes – G, Hawaii (junior)
• Maurice Watson, Jr. – G, Creighton (junior)
• James Webb III – F, Boise State (junior)
• Isaiah Whitehead – G, Seton Hall (sophomore)
• Devin Williams – F, West Virginia (junior)
• Troy Williams – F, Indiana (junior)
• Stephen Zimmerman – C, UNLV (freshman)

International players

• Dragan Bender – F/C, Maccabi Tel Aviv (Israel)
• Marko Gudurić – G/F, Red Star Belgrade (Serbia)
• Ognjen Jaramaz – G, Mega Leks (Serbia)
• Alpha Kaba – F, Mega Leks (Serbia)
• Furkan Korkmaz – G, Anadolu Efes (Turkey)
• Emircan Koşut – F/C, Anadolu Efes (Turkey)
• Timothe Luwawu – G/F, Mega Leks (Serbia)
• Jordan Shako – C, Baloncesto Torrelodones (Spain)
• Rade Zagorac – G/F, Mega Leks (Serbia)
• Ante Žižić – C, Cibona Zagreb (Croatia)
• Ivica Zubac – C, Mega Leks (Serbia)

Automatically eligible entrants

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

• They have completed 4 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, 1994 are automatically eligible for the 2016 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.

Based on the eligibility rules, every college seniors who have completed their college eligibility and every "international" players who were born on or before December 31, 1994 are automatically eligible for the draft. However, there are other players who became automatically eligible even though they have not completed their four-year college eligibility.

Combine

Main article: NBA Draft Combine

The invitation-only NBA Draft Combine is scheduled to occur in Chicago from May 10 to 15. The on-court element of the combine is scheduled for May 12 and 13.

Draft lottery

Main article: NBA draft lottery

The NBA conducts an annual lottery to determine the draft order for the teams did not make the playoffs in the preceding season. Every NBA team that missed the NBA playoffs had a chance at winning a top three pick, but teams with worst records had a better chance at winning a top three pick. After the lottery selected the teams that receive a top three pick the other teams receive an NBA draft pick based on their winning percentange from the prior season. The table below shows each non-playoff team's chances (based on their record at the end of the NBA season) of receiving picks 1–14.

The 2016 NBA lottery will be held on May 17.

Draft ceremony

In the first round of the draft, each team has five or less minutes (if they pick early) to decide which player they would like to select. During the five or less minutes, the team can also propose a trade with another team before making their final selection. The NBA commissioner then will announce the selection and the player, wearing a basketball cap sporting the team's logo, comes up to the stage to be congratulated and presented to the audience. In the second round, each team has two or less minutes to make their picks while the deputy commissioner assumes the commissioner's role.

The NBA annually invites around 15–20 players to sit in the so-called "green room", a special room set aside at the draft site for the invited players plus their families and agents. When their names are called, the player leaves the room and goes up on stage. Other players who are not invited are allowed to attend the ceremony. They sit in the stands with the fans and walk up on stage when (or if) they are drafted.

Trades involving draft picks

Pre-draft trades

On July 11, 2012, the Los Angeles Lakers traded a 2016 first round draft pick protected top 3, also top 3 protected in 2017, unprotected 2018; a 2013 first round pick, a 2013 second round pick, a 2014 second round pick, and $3 million cash in exchange for Steve Nash. That selection would later on be traded to the Philadelphia 76ers on February 18, 2015 where the Phoenix Suns traded that selection to Philadelphia and the Milwaukee Bucks acquired Michael Carter-Williams, Miles Plumlee and Tyler Ennis, while losing Brandon Knight to the Suns.

On July 12, 2013, the Boston Celtics traded Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, Jason Terry and D.J. White to the Brooklyn Nets for Gerald Wallace, Kris Humphries, MarShon Brooks, Keith Bogans and their unprotected first-round draft picks in 2014, 2016 and 2018. The Celtics also received the right to swap first-rounders with the Nets in 2017.

On July 10, 2014, the Boston Celtics traded a 2015 conditional second round pick protected top 55 in 2015, else extinguished, which was not exercised in a 3-team trade with the Cleveland Cavaliers and Brooklyn Nets for Tyler Zeller, Marcus Thornton, and a first round pick from the Cavaliers protected top 10 in 2016–18, unprotected in 2019, in 2014.

On February 19, 2015, the Denver Nuggets traded Arron Afflalo and Alonzo Gee to the Portland Trail Blazers for Will Barton, Victor Claver, Thomas Robinson and a 2016 first round pick (protected top 14 in 2016–17, or else conveyed to a 2018 second round pick and a 2019 second round pick.

On February 18, 2016, the Phoenix Suns traded Markieff Morris to the Washington Wizards for Kris Humphries, DeJuan Blair and a 2016 first round pick (protected top 9 in 2016–2021, unprotected in 2022).

Draft-day trades

Draft day trades will occur on June 23, 2016- The day of the draft.

External links

• Official Site