NBA Draft
By InsideHoops.com | Mar. 13, 2008
The 2008 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, which showcases some of the top college seniors hoping to be selected in the NBA Draft, is April 9-12. Check that link for a PIT intro, participating players, team rosters, game schedules and results.
The first draft of the InsideHoops.com 2008 NBA Mock Draft is up and updated as of early April.
Coming soon, NBA draft prospect profiles, telling you about each player that has a shot at being selected, a more detailed Mock Draft, team-by-team needs and much more. InsideHoops.com provides full previews, covergae and recaps of every aspect of the NBA Draft. Check back soon.
2007 NBA DRAFT COVERAGE
 The 2007 NBA Draft is June 28 in the theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. This year's event features two highly-desired superstars in big-man Greg Oden and tall, lanky Devin Durant, and plenty of talent available from picks three down to a bit past the middle of the first round. Aside from those two players, who are almost guaranteed to be the first and second overall picks, the 2007 NBA Draft also features Joakim Noah, Al Thornton, Mike Conley, a tall Chinese propect named Yi Jianlian, Julian Wright, Jeff Green and other potential difference-makers.
NBA Draft Green Room Invitees: Corey Brewer (Florida), Michael Conley (Ohio St.), Kevin Durant (Texas), Jeff Green (Georgetown), Spencer Hawes (Washington), Al Horford (Florida), Yi Jianlian (China),
Acie Law IV (Texas A&M), Joakim Noah (Florida), Greg Oden (Ohio St.), Rodney Stuckey (Eastern Washington),
Al Thornton (Florida St.), Brandan Wright (North Carolina), Julian Wright (Kansas), Nick Young (USC).
Talk with other NBA Draft enthusiasts on the InsideHoops NBA Draft Forum. Enjoy year-round draft talk.
On June 19 the final, official NBA Draft early entry list was released, naming underclassmen who have declared themselves eligible for the NBA Draft as well as players who had declared early entry but have withdrawn. Players had until June 18 to withdraw.
The InsideHoops.com NBA Mock Draft is one of the web's top (and only) proven, reliable, professional looks at how the draft would go down if it was to happen today. It's compiled by InsideHoops.com editor Jeff Lenchiner (who does radio around the country and also wrote the All-Star player profiles for the official 2007 NBA All-Star weekend event program) with help from a good dozen or so top sources, including assistant general managers, scouts and others. The entire NBA media world knows the InsideHoops.com mock draft is a trusted source of info.
The 2007 NBA Pre-Draft camp is from May 29 through June 1 in Orlando, Florida. InsideHoops.com is there and reporting every day. We've already posted some Day 1 notes, and the first day was just two hours long. The real action comes on days 2-4. We'll have daily notes plus tons of interviews, all worth reading.
The official NBA Draft order showing the complete first and second round team selection order is useful. This year, thanks to several trades, the Philadelphia 76ers have three first round draft picks.
The NBA Draft Lottery recently took place. Ping-pong balls and odds based on record determined the exact order that lottery teams -- teams that failed to qualify for the NBA Playoffs -- will pick in the 2007 NBA Draft. Of course, many teams have traded their picks, so some selections go elsewhere.
It's also worth reading NBA Draft lottery quotes, with reactions from several lottery team representatives after the lottery results became known.
And, learn about the evolution of the Draft Lottery process and how it developed into the current system.
To keep up with the latest 2007 NBA Draft stories, read the InsideHoops.com NBA Rumors page each day, and to see archived stories hit the NBA draft rumors page.
2006 NBA DRAFT COVERAGE
The 2006 NBA Draft was Wednesday, June 28, at the Theatre at Madison Square Garden. The NBA Draft Green Room invitees were LaMarcus Aldridge, Hilton Armstrong, Andrea Bargnani, Ronnie Brewer, Rodney Carney, Randy Foye, Rudy Gay, Adam Morrison, Patrick O'Bryant, J.J. Redick, Brandon Roy, Cedric Simmons, Tyrus Thomas, Marcus Williams and Shelden Williams.
2006 NBA Draft Results Complete list of results
Discuss the draft on the InsideHoops NBA Draft Forum.
2006 Pre-Draft Features:
New: NBA Pre-Draft Media Day interviews
New: 2006 Draft fact sheet
NBA Mock Draft (Updated daily)
NBA Draft Rumors (Updated daily)
Early Entry (Underclassmen) List (Final, official list)
Offiical Draft Camp Prospect Measurements
NBA Draft Lottery Interviews with GM's, players, scouts
NBA Draft Lottery official results, odds and explanation
NBA Draft all-time #1 picks list
Draft Order includes May 23 lottery results
NBA Draft Prospects Rankings by position
2006 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament rosters
2006 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament event info
2005 NBA Draft:
- 2005 NBA Draft Results
- NBA mock draft
- NBA Draft early entry list (June 22 - official)
- Official player measurements
- NBA draft prospects
- NBA draft rumors
- 2005 NBA Draft order & draft lottery odds
- NBA Draft Lottery Interviews
- NBA Draft History (year by year)
2005 NBA DRAFT NOTES | June 30, 2005
For the first time in five years, the No. 1 overall pick this year played at least one season of college basketball. Andrew Bogut played two seasons at Utah. Cincinnati's Kenyon Martin was the last collegiate player to go first, to New Jersey in 2000. The first overall picks since then have been Kwame Brown (Washington), Yao Ming (Houston), LeBron James (Cleveland) and Dwight Howard (Orlando), all but Yao straight out of high school.
This year marks the first time three point guards – Deron Williams (#3), Chris Paul (#4) and Raymond Felton (#5) – were chosen in the Top 10 since 1999. That year, Steve Francis (#2), Baron Davis (#3), Andre Miller (#8) and Jason Terry (#10) all went in the Top 10.
North Carolina had four players selected in the first round – Marvin Williams (#2), Raymond Felton (#5), Sean May (#13) and Rashad McCants (#14). This has happened only one other time: Duke in 1999 – Elton Brand (#1), Trajan Langdon (#11), Corey Maggette (#13) and William Avery (#14).
Felton and May are the first set of college teammates to be drafted by the same team (Charlotte) since Todd Day and Lee Mayberry of Arkansas were each drafted by Milwaukee in 1992. In 2004, the Portland Trail Blazers traded for the rights to Viktor Khryapa of CSKA Moscow and drafted his teammate Sergei Monia.
There were seven international players selected in the first round, two shy of the record (9) set in 2003. This year’s selections are Andrew Bogut (Australia), Fran Vazquez (Spain), Yaroslav Korolev (Russia), Francisco Garcia (Dominican Republic), Johan Petro (France), Linas Kleiza (Lithuania) and Ian Mahinmi (France).
There were nine college seniors selected in the first round, up from five in 2004. They are: Channing Frye (#8), Joey Graham (#16), Danny Granger (#17), Hakim Warrick (#19), Julius Hodge (#20), Luther Head (#24), Jason Maxiell (#26), Wayne Simien (#29) and David Lee (#30).
This year, there were a record nine high school seniors chosen in the draft: Martell Webster (#6), Andrew Bynum (#10), Gerald Green (#18), CJ Miles (#34), Ricky Sanchez (#35), Monta Ellis (#40), Louis Williams (#45), Andray Blatche (#49), Amir Johnson (#56).
Players Invited to 2005 NBA Draft Green Room: Bogut, Felton, Frye, Granger, Green, Korolev, May, McCants, Paul, Vazquez, Villanueva, Warrick, Webster, Deron Williams, Marvin Williams, Wright.
ABOUT THE NBA DRAFT
The NBA Draft, which happens once a year (in June), is when NBA teams select new players (from college, high school and outside of the country) who will enter the NBA for the first time. The 2005 NBA Draft is on June 28 in New York's Madison Square Garden theatre. The 2005 NBA Draft deadline for "underclassmen" (early entry players: non-seniors in college, high school seniors, and young international players) to declare themselves eligible was on May 14 (see link above for the list).
The NBA's Chicago pre-draft camp is June 7-10. (it just happens to be in Chicago. It's for all teams, not just the Bulls.) That's the main NBA pre-draft camp. Players who feel they're a lock to be drafted in the first round usually don't play and just go to take a physical. The only other NBA pre-draft camp is the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (P.I.T.), for college seniors only. Very few P.I.T. players get drafted. The best college seniors usually skip the P.I.T. and only play in the Chicago camp - unless they skip that, too.
The 2005 NBA Draft Early Entry Entrant Withdrawal Deadline is on June 21. Underclassmen who made themselves eligible for the 2005 NBA draft have until that day to change their minds and postpone being a part of the NBA Draft. However, high school and college players who signed with an agent or otherwise ruined their amateur status won't be allowed back in school.
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2004 NBA Draft
2004 NBA Draft Interviews - After the players were drafted.
2004 NBA Draft Early Entry List - Underclassmen who declared.
Chicago Pre-Draft Camp
| Chicago Rosters | Player
Measurements
Portsmouth Invitational Tournament
- Some PIT info (April, 2004).
2004 college player rankings
by class (not updated).
2003 NBA DRAFT
2003 NBA Draft Results
Rounds one and two. June 27
Local
Analysis of all 29 Team Draft Nights
See 29 articles from team beat writers. June 27
Official Draft Underclassmen
List
Official list of underclassmen who have declared themselves eligible for the 2003
draft, and a list of those who withdrew.
2003
NBA Draft Prospects
The key guys.
LeBron
James Interview
From the Chicago pre-draft camp
Media conference about the upcoming NBA draft. June 14
Carmelo
Anthony Interview
From the Chicago pre-draft camp
Media conference about the upcoming NBA draft. June 14
Chris
Bosh Interview
From the Chicago pre-draft camp
Media conference about the upcoming NBA draft. June 14
NBA
Pre-draft Camp in Chicago
The rosters. June 5.
Draft
Lottery Interviews
Transcripts of media sessions with all the team representatives involved with
the draft lottery tonight. See what Cleveland said about getting the top pick
(allowing them to take LeBron James), and much more. May 23
NBA
Draft Order
Some coins have been flipped, and now the 2003 NBA draft order has been resolved.
Not the lottery, but the odds, and later picks, and this, and that, and the other
thing. Apr 29
Portsmouth Invitational Tournament
April 14: See the P.I.T. final leaders and team rosters.
High
School Basketball Player Rankings
Since some of these kids will go straight to the NBA, you
might as well know who they are. InsideHoops ranks the prep kids.
NBA
Draft Message Board
Bring every draft freak you know to the InsideHoops draft
board.
2003 NBA Draft Lottery Chances Per Team:
Team 1 - 250
Team 2 - 200
Team 3 - 157
Team 4 - 120
Team 5 - 89
Team 6 - 64
Team 7 - 44
Team 8 - 29
Team 9 - 18
Team 10 - 11
Team 11 - 7
Team 12 - 6
Team 13 - 5
NBA Draft History
NBA Players Drafted
#1
A list of all NBA players taken first in the entire draft.
Every
First Round Draft Pick, Team by Team
Click the link and pick a team to see every first round draft
pick they ever made.
NBA Lottery
Picks since 1985
Each year's NBA draft lottery picks (top 13 picks)
since 1985.
Opinion: Best Players,
Biggest Mistakes in 1981-2001 Drafts
A useful glance at the last 20 years of drafts.
2002 NBA Draft Results and Features
2002 NBA Draft Results
Both rounds, and the trades. Late June, 2002.
2002 Draft Summary
A few words on the night each team had. Early July, 2002.
Post-Draft Interviews: Caron
Butler and Mike Dunleavy, Jr.
Post-Draft Interviews: Chris
Wilcox and Jay Williams
Post-Draft Interviews: Juan
Dixon, Drew Gooden and Melvin Ely
2002 Chicago
Pre-Draft Camp Roster
The main camp for 2002 NBA draft prospects. Most players
who are a lock for the first round don't play. (June 6, 2002)
2002 NBA Draft Player
Profiles
A contributor to Inside Hoops analyzes some of the
best draft prospects. (May 12, 2002)
2002 Draft
Lottery Day Quotes
(May 20, 2002)
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