2012 NBA Draft

The 2012 NBA Draft is scheduled to be held on June 28, 2012 at the Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey. The draft will start at 7:00 pm Eastern Daylight Time (2300 UTC), and will be broadcast in the United States on ESPN. In this draft, National Basketball Association (NBA) teams will take turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.

Eligibility rules

The draft is expected to be conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's now-expired 2005 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.^[1] As of 2011, the basic eligibility rules for the draft are listed below.

• All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players eligible for the 2012 draft must be born on or before December 31, 1993.^[2]
• Any player who is not an "international player", as defined in the CBA, must be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class.^[2] The CBA defines "international players" as players who permanently resided outside the U.S. for three years prior to the draft, did not complete high school in the U.S., and have never enrolled at a U.S. college or university.^[3]

The basic requirement for automatic eligibility for a U.S. player is the completion of his college eligibility.^[4] Players who meet the CBA definition of "international players" are automatically eligible if their 22nd birthday falls during or before the calendar year of the draft (i.e., born on or before December 31, 1990).^[5] U.S. players who were at least one year removed from their high school graduation and have played minor-league basketball with a team outside the NBA are also automatically eligible.

A player who is not automatically eligible must declare his eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft.^[6][7] For the 2012 draft, this date fell on April 29. Under NCAA rules, players will only have until April 10 to withdraw from the draft and maintain their college eligibility.^[8]

A player who has hired an agent will forfeit his remaining college eligibility, regardless of whether he is drafted. Also, while the CBA allows a player to withdraw from the draft twice, the NCAA mandates that a player who has declared twice loses his college eligibility.

Entrants

Early entrants^[9]

College underclassmen

(All players are Americans except as indicated)

• Erik Austin – F, Jackson CC (MI) (freshman)
• Harrison Barnes – SF, North Carolina (sophomore)
• Will Barton – G, Memphis (sophomore)
• Bradley Beal – G, Florida (freshman)
• J'Covan Brown – G, Texas (junior)
• Dominic Cheek – G, Villanova (junior)
• Jared Cunningham – G, Oregon State (junior)
• Anthony Davis – F/C, Kentucky (freshman)
• Andre Drummond – C, Connecticut (freshman)
• Dominique Ferguson – F, Florida International (sophomore)
• Justin Hamilton – C, LSU (junior)
• Moe Harkless – F, St. John's (freshman)
• John Henson – F, North Carolina (junior)
• John Jenkins – SG, Vanderbilt (junior)
• Perry Jones III – F, Baylor (sophomore)
• Terrence Jones – F, Kentucky (sophomore)
• Michael Kidd-Gilchrist – G, Kentucky (freshman)
• Doron Lamb – G, Kentucky (sophomore)
• Jeremy Lamb – G/F, Connecticut (sophomore)
• Meyers Leonard – C, Illinois (sophomore)
• Damian Lillard – PG, Weber State (junior)
• Kendall Marshall – PG, North Carolina (sophomore)
• Fab Melo – C, Syracuse (sophomore)
• Khris Middleton – F, Texas A&M (junior)
• Quincy Miller – F, Baylor (freshman)
• Tony Mitchell – SF, Alabama (junior)
• Arnett Moultrie – F/C, Mississippi State (junior)
• Austin Rivers – G, Duke (freshman)
• Peter Roberson – C, Alabama (junior)
• Quincy Roberts – G, Grambling State (junior)
• Thomas Robinson – PF, Kansas (junior)
• Terrence Ross – G, Washington (sophomore)
• Avery Scharer – G, Shoreline CC (WA) (sophomore)
• Renardo Sidney – F, Mississippi State (junior)
• Jonathan Simmons – G, Houston (junior)
• Terrell Stoglin – G, Maryland (junior)
• Gerardo Suero – G, Albany (junior)
• Jared Sullinger – PF, Ohio State (sophomore)
• Raymond Taylor – G, Florida Atlantic (junior)
• Marquis Teague – G, Kentucky (freshman)
• Joston Thomas – F, Hawaiʻi (junior)
• Hollis Thompson – F, Georgetown (junior)
• Rich Townsend-Gant – F, Vancouver Island U (junior)
• Dion Waiters – G, Syracuse (sophomore)
• Maalik Wayns – PG, Villanova (junior)
• Royce White – F, Iowa State (sophomore)
• D'Angelo Williams – G, Notre Dame (CA) (junior)
• Tony Wroten – G, Washington (freshman)

International players

• Furkan Aldemir – F/C, Galatasaray (Turkey)
• Jonas Bergstedt – C, Torrelodones (Spain, fourth division)
• Evan Fournier – G/F, Union Poitiers (France)
• Josep Franch – G, Murcia (Spain)
• Maximilian Kleber – F, s.Oliver Baskets (Germany)
• Lahaou Konate – G, Évreux (France, second division)
• Mindaugas Kupšas – C, Baltai Kaunas (Lithuania)
• Joffrey Lauvergne – C, Chalon (France)
• Abdoulaye Loum – F, Gravelines (France)
• Nika Metreveli – F, Sassari (Italy)
• Nemanja Nedović – G, Crvena zvezda (Serbia)
• Alen Omic – C, Zlatorog (Slovenia)
• Jakub Parzeński – C, PBG Basket (Poland)
• Sertaç Şanlı – C, Galatasaray (Turkey)
• Tomáš Satoranský – G, Banca Cívica (Spain)
• Tornike Shengelia – F, Spirou Charleroi (Belgium)
• Mathieu Wojciechowski – F, Gravelines (France)

Automatically eligible entrants

This list is intended to include only players who qualify for automatic eligibility despite not meeting the standard criteria—reaching age 22 during the calendar year of the draft for players who qualify as "international" under the CBA, or being four years removed from the graduation of their high school class if they do not qualify as "international".

The signing of a contract with a professional basketball team in a league other than the NBA, combined with rendering services under that contract, may trigger automatic eligibility. The criterion for eligibility differs slightly depending on whether or not the player is "international":

• For "international" players, the contract must be with a non-NBA team within the United States.
• For non-international players, the contract may be with any team outside of the NBA in any country.

Citizenship is not a criterion for determining whether a player is "international" under the CBA. While the criteria have been discussed elsewhere in this article, they will be repeated here to provide further context. For a player to be "international" under the CBA, he must meet all of the following criteria:

• Resident outside the U.S. for at least three years at the time of the draft.
• Did not complete basketball eligibility at a U.S. high school.
• Never enrolled at a U.S. college or university.

These players would also be eligible for selection in the 2012 NBA Draft:

(All players are Americans except as indicated)

• Reeves Nelson – F, Zalgiris Kaunas (Lithuania)

Draft Lottery

The first 14 picks in the draft belong to teams that miss the playoffs; the order was determined through a lottery. The lottery determined the three teams that will obtain the first three picks on the draft. The remaining first-round picks and the second-round picks were assigned to teams in reverse order of their win-loss record in the previous season.

The lottery was held on May 30, 2012 in the Disney/ABC Times Square Studio in New York, NY.^[10]

Below are the chances for each team to get specific picks in the 2012 draft lottery, rounded to three decimal places.

^ 1: Brooklyn Nets' pick was top 3 protected in a trade to Portland. It is therefore conveyed to Portland.
^ 2: Golden State Warriors' pick was top 7 protected in a trade to Utah via Brooklyn. It is therefore retained by Golden State.
^ 3: The Timberwolves' pick was conveyed to New Orleans via the Los Angeles Clippers.

Invited attendees

The NBA annually invites 10 or 15 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. This season, the following players were invited (listed alphabetically).

Draft

Trades involving draft picks

Pre-draft trades

Prior to the day of the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of draft picks between the teams.

Draft-day trades

the team that had a pick traded their pick to a team that had 2 picks for their 2 picks.

References

External links

• 2012 NBA Draft Official Site
• 2012 NBA Draft at ESPN