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2017 NBA draft
General Information
Sport	Basketball
Date(s)	June 22, 2017
Location	Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York[1]
Network(s)	ESPN, The Vertical
Overview
League	NBA
First selection	Markelle Fultz, Philadelphia 76ers
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The 2017 NBA draft was held on June 22, 2017, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. National Basketball Association (NBA) teams took turns selecting amateur U.S. college basketball players and other eligible players, including international players.

The draft lottery took place during the playoffs on May 16, 2017. The 53–29 Boston Celtics, who were also the #1 seed in the Eastern Conference and reached the Eastern Conference Finals at the time of the NBA draft lottery, won the #1 pick with pick swapping rights thanks to a previous trade with the Brooklyn Nets, who had the worst record the previous season. The Los Angeles Lakers, who had risked losing their 2017 first round pick to the Philadelphia 76ers, moved up two spots to get the No. 2 pick, while Philadelphia moved up to receive the No. 3 pick due to the Sacramento Kings moving up in the draft, which activated pick swapping rights the 76ers had from an earlier trade. On June 19, four days before the NBA draft began, the Celtics and 76ers traded their top first round picks to each other, meaning the holders of the top four picks of this year's draft would be exactly the same as the previous year's draft.^[2]

The draft class is the youngest draft class ever, with the most freshmen and fewest seniors selected in the first round; the top seven picks in the draft were all college freshmen. It was the third time, and the second in a row, that three players were selected from Serbian team KK Mega Basket in the same draft (Vlatko Čančar, Ognjen Jaramaz, Alpha Kaba), with it previously occurring during the 2014 and 2016 NBA draft. The draft also received a lot of media coverage from ESPN pertaining to eventual No. 2 pick Lonzo Ball and his outspoken father, LaVar Ball, much to the chagrin of many sports fans and even some ESPN employees.^[3][4]

Draft selections

Markelle Fultz was selected first overall by the Philadelphia 76ers via the Boston Celtics and Brooklyn Nets.

Lonzo Ball was selected second by the Los Angeles Lakers.

Jayson Tatum was selected third by the Boston Celtics via the Philadelphia 76ers and Sacramento Kings.

Josh Jackson was selected fourth by the Phoenix Suns.

De'Aaron Fox was selected fifth by the Sacramento Kings via the Philadelphia 76ers.

Jonathan Isaac was taken sixth overall by the Orlando Magic.

Frank Ntilikina was taken eighth by the New York Knicks.

Donovan Mitchell was taken thirteenth by the Denver Nuggets (traded to Utah Jazz).

Rnd.	Pick	Player	Pos.	Nationality[n 1]	Team	School / club team
1	1	Markelle Fultz	PG/SG	United States	Philadelphia 76ers (from Brooklyn via Boston)[A][B]	Washington (Fr.)
1	2	Lonzo Ball	PG	United States	Los Angeles Lakers	UCLA (Fr.)
1	3	Jayson Tatum	SF	United States	Boston Celtics (from Sacramento via Philadelphia)[C][B]	Duke (Fr.)
1	4	Josh Jackson	SF	United States	Phoenix Suns	Kansas (Fr.)
1	5	De'Aaron Fox	PG	United States	Sacramento Kings (from Philadelphia)[C]	Kentucky (Fr.)
1	6	Jonathan Isaac	SF/PF	United States	Orlando Magic	Florida State (Fr.)
1	7	Lauri Markkanen	PF	Finland	Minnesota Timberwolves (traded to Chicago Bulls)[a]	Arizona (Fr.)
1	8	Frank Ntilikina	PG	France[n 2]	New York Knicks	SIG Strasbourg (France)
1	9	Dennis Smith Jr.	PG	United States	Dallas Mavericks	NC State (Fr.)
1	10	Zach Collins	C/PF	United States	Sacramento Kings (from New Orleans,[D] traded to Portland Trail Blazers[b])	Gonzaga (Fr.)
1	11	Malik Monk	SG	United States	Charlotte Hornets	Kentucky (Fr.)
1	12	Luke Kennard	SG	United States	Detroit Pistons	Duke (So.)
1	13	Donovan Mitchell	SG	United States	Denver Nuggets (traded to Utah Jazz)[c]	Louisville (So.)
1	14	Bam Adebayo	PF/C	United States	Miami Heat	Kentucky (Fr.)
1	15	Justin Jackson	SF	United States	Portland Trail Blazers (traded to Sacramento Kings)[b]	North Carolina (Jr.)
1	16	Justin Patton	C	United States	Chicago Bulls (traded to Minnesota)[a]	Creighton (Fr.)
1	17	D. J. Wilson	PF/SF	United States	Milwaukee Bucks	Michigan (Jr.)
1	18	T. J. Leaf	PF	Israel  United States [n 3]	Indiana Pacers	UCLA (Fr.)
1	19	John Collins	PF	United States	Atlanta Hawks	Wake Forest (So.)
1	20	Harry Giles	PF/C	United States	Portland Trail Blazers (from Memphis via Denver and Cleveland,[E] traded to Sacramento Kings[b])	Duke (Fr.)
1	21	Terrance Ferguson	SG	United States	Oklahoma City Thunder	Adelaide 36ers (Australia)
1	22	Jarrett Allen	C	United States	Brooklyn Nets (from Washington)[F]	Texas (Fr.)
1	23	OG Anunoby	SF	United Kingdom[n 4]	Toronto Raptors (from L.A. Clippers via Milwaukee)[G]	Indiana (So.)
1	24	Tyler Lydon	PF	United States	Utah Jazz (traded to Denver Nuggets)[c]	Syracuse (So.)
1	25	Anžejs Pasečņiks#	C	Latvia	Orlando Magic (from Toronto,[G] traded to Philadelphia 76ers)[d]	Herbalife Gran Canaria (Spain)
1	26	Caleb Swanigan	PF	United States	Portland Trail Blazers (from Cleveland)[H]	Purdue (So.)
1	27	Kyle Kuzma	PF	United States	Brooklyn Nets (from Boston,[A]traded to Los Angeles Lakers)[e]	Utah (Jr.)
1	28	Tony Bradley	PF/C	United States	Los Angeles Lakers (from Houston,[I] traded to Utah Jazz)[f]	North Carolina (Fr.)
1	29	Derrick White	PG/SG	United States	San Antonio Spurs	Colorado (Sr.)
1	30	Josh Hart	SG	United States	Utah Jazz (from Golden State,[J] traded to Los Angeles Lakers)[f]	Villanova (Sr.)
2	31	Frank Jackson	PG	United States	Charlotte Hornets (from Brooklyn via Atlanta Hawks,[K] traded to New Orleans Pelicans)[g]	Duke (Fr.)
2	32	Davon Reed	SG	United States	Phoenix Suns	Miami (Sr.)
2	33	Wes Iwundu	SF	United States	Orlando Magic (from L.A. Lakers)[L]	Kansas State (Sr.)
2	34	Frank Mason III	PG	United States	Sacramento Kings (from Philadelphia via New Orleans)[D]	Kansas (Sr.)
2	35	Ivan Rabb	PF	United States	Orlando Magic (traded to Memphis Grizzlies)[h]	California (So.)
2	36	Jonah Bolden	PF	Australia	Philadelphia 76ers (from New York via Utah and Toronto)[J]	Crvena zvezda (Serbia)
2	37	Semi Ojeleye	SF/PF	United States[n 5]	Boston Celtics (from Minnesota via Phoenix)[M]	SMU (Jr.)
2	38	Jordan Bell	PF	United States	Chicago Bulls (from Sacramento via Cleveland,[N] traded to Golden State Warriors)[i]	Oregon (Jr.)
2	39	Jawun Evans	PG	United States	Philadelphia 76ers (from Dallas,[O] traded to Los Angeles Clippers)[j]	Oklahoma State (So.)
2	40	Dwayne Bacon	SG	United States	New Orleans Pelicans (traded to Charlotte Hornets)[g]	Florida State (So.)
2	41	Tyler Dorsey	SG	Greece[n 6]	Atlanta Hawks (from Charlotte)[K]	Oregon (So.)
2	42	Thomas Bryant	PF	United States	Utah Jazz (from Detroit,[J] traded to Los Angeles Lakers)[f]	Indiana (So.)
2	43	Isaiah Hartenstein	PF/C	Germany[n 7]	Houston Rockets (from Denver)[P]	Žalgiris (Lithuania)
2	44	Damyean Dotson	SG	United States	New York Knicks (from Chicago)[Q]	Houston (Sr.)
2	45	Dillon Brooks	SF	Canada	Houston Rockets (from Portland,[R] traded to Memphis Grizzlies)[k]	Oregon (Jr.)
2	46	Sterling Brown	SG	United States	Philadelphia 76ers (from Miami via Atlanta)[J] traded to Milwaukee Bucks)[l]	SMU (Sr.)
2	47	Ike Anigbogu	C	United States[n 5]	Indiana Pacers	UCLA (Fr.)
2	48	Sindarius Thornwell	SG	United States	Milwaukee Bucks (traded to Los Angeles Clippers)[m]	South Carolina (Sr.)
2	49	Vlatko Čančar#	SF	Slovenia	Denver Nuggets (from Memphis via Oklahoma City)[S]	Mega Leks (Serbia)
2	50	Mathias Lessort#	PF/C	France[n 8]	Philadelphia 76ers (from Atlanta)[J]	Nanterre 92 (France)
2	51	Monté Morris	PG	United States	Denver Nuggets (from Oklahoma City)[S]	Iowa State (Sr.)
2	52	Edmond Sumner	PG	United States	New Orleans Pelicans (from Washington,[T] traded to Indiana Pacers)[n]	Xavier (Jr.)
2	53	Kadeem Allen	SG	United States	Boston Celtics (from Cleveland)[U]	Arizona (Sr.)
2	54	Alec Peters	SF	United States	Phoenix Suns (from Toronto)[V]	Valparaiso (Sr.)
2	55	Nigel Williams-Goss#	PG	United States	Utah Jazz[J]	Gonzaga (Jr.)
2	56	Jabari Bird	SG	United States	Boston Celtics (from L.A. Clippers)[W]	California (Sr.)
2	57	Sasha Vezenkov#	PF	Bulgaria[n 9]	Brooklyn Nets (from Boston)[A]	FC Barcelona Lassa (Spain)
2	58	Ognjen Jaramaz#	PG	Serbia	New York Knicks (from Houston)[X]	Mega Leks (Serbia)
2	59	Jaron Blossomgame	SF	United States	San Antonio Spurs	Clemson (Sr.)
2	60	Alpha Kaba#	PF/C	France	Atlanta Hawks (from Golden State via Philadelphia and Utah)[J]	Mega Leks (Serbia)

Notable undrafted players

These players were not selected in the 2017 NBA Draft, but have played at least one game in the NBA.

Player	Pos.	Nationality	School/club team
Jamel Artis	SG/SF	United States	Pittsburgh (Sr.)
Antonio Blakeney	PG	United States	LSU (So.)
Chris Boucher	PF/C	Canada  Saint Lucia	Oregon (Sr.)
Isaiah Briscoe	PG	United States	Kentucky (So.)
Deonte Burton	SG	United States	Iowa State (Sr.)
Troy Caupain	PG	United States	Cincinnati (Sr.)
Tyler Cavanaugh	PF	United States	George Washington (Sr.)
Gian Clavell	SG	Puerto Rico	Colorado State (Sr.)
Antonius Cleveland	SG	United States	Southeast Missouri State (Sr.)
Charles Cooke	SG	United States	Dayton (Sr.)
Milton Doyle	SG	United States	Loyola (Illinois) (Sr.)
P. J. Dozier	SG	United States	South Carolina (So.)
Nigel Hayes	F	United States	Wisconsin (Sr.)
Isaiah Hicks	PF	United States	North Carolina (Sr.)
Amile Jefferson	PF	United States	Duke (Sr.)
Luke Kornet	PF/C	United States	Vanderbilt (Sr.)
Mangok Mathiang	PF/C	Australia  South Sudan	Louisville (Sr.)
Erik McCree	PF	United States	Louisiana Tech (Sr.)
Naz Mitrou-Long	PG/SG	Canada  Greece	Iowa State (Sr.)
Ben Moore	SF	United States	SMU (Sr.)
Jaylen Morris	SG	United States	Molloy College (Sr.)
Johnathan Motley	PF	United States	Baylor (Jr.)
London Perrantes	PG	United States	Virginia (Sr.)
Rodney Purvis	SG	United States	Connecticut (Sr.)
Xavier Rathan-Mayes	SG	Canada	Florida State (Jr.)
Devin Robinson	SF	United States	Florida (Jr.)
Kobi Simmons	PG	United States	Arizona (Fr.)
Derrick Walton	PG	United States	Michigan (Sr.)
Andrew White	SF	United States	Syracuse (Sr.)
Matt Williams	SG	United States	UCF (Sr.)
Jacob Wiley	SF	United States	Eastern Washington (Sr.)

Eligibility and entrants

The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's 2017 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.


• Since the 2016 draft, the NCAA Division I council has implemented the following rules for that division that significantly changed the draft landscape for college players:^[61]
  • 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 have until 10 days after the end of the NBA Draft Combine to withdraw from the draft. Since the combine is held in mid-May, the current deadline is about five weeks after the previous mid-April deadline.
  
  
  • NCAA players may participate in the draft combine, and are also 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 up to two 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).^[62]

Early entrants

Players who are not automatically eligible had to 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 fell on April 23. After that date "early entry" players were able to 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 current 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 forfeits his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted.

College underclassmen

At the time, a record-high 185 underclassed draft prospects (i.e., players with remaining college eligibility) had declared themselves for eligibility at the April 24 deadline (138 of them being from college), although college players who had not hired agents or signed professional contracts outside the NBA were able to decide to return to college by May 24, 10 days after the end of the NBA Draft Combine. These players have publicly indicated that they have hired agents, or had planned to do so around the start of the draft; those who hired agents immediately lost their eligibility to return to NCAA basketball in 2017–18.^[63] By the end of the May 24 deadline, 73 draft candidates from college decided to return to their respective colleges for at least another year, leaving 64 underclassmen to officially enter the draft this year.^[64][65] Additionally, two more players left entry at the end of the international player deadline, meaning both Maverick Rowan from North Carolina State and Darin Johnson from Cal State Northridge would not return for college, but one player managed to enter the college underclassman deadline, thus leaving 63 entries at hand for the NBA Draft.^[66]

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. Initially, there were 46 players who originally expressed interest entering the 2017 draft. At the end of the international deadline, 36 players wound up declining entry for the draft, leaving only 10 international players staying in the NBA Draft. As a result, 73 total underclassmen entered the 2017 NBA Draft.

Automatically eligible entrants

Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:^[67]

• 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.^[68]


• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team outside of the NBA within the United States, and have played under that contract.^[69]

Other automatically eligible players

Player	Team	Note	Ref.
Paris Bass	Erie BayHawks (D-League)	Removed from Detroit in 2016;[70] playing professionally since 2016–17 season
Jonah Bolden	Crvena zvezda (Serbia)	Left UCLA in 2016; playing professionally since 2016–17 season	[71]
Terrance Ferguson	Adelaide 36ers (Australia)	Didn't attend college in 2016, playing professionally since 2016–17 season	[72]
Lee Moore	Germani Basket Brescia (Italy)	Left UTEP in 2016; playing professionally since 2016–17 season	[73]
Waly Niang	Long Island Nets (D-League)	International player who played for the Long Island Nets in 2016	[74]

Combine

The invitation-only NBA Draft Combine was held in Chicago from May 9 to 14. The on-court element of the combine took place on May 11 and 12. This year's event had Under Armour as its primary sponsor. A total of 67 players were invited for this year's NBA Draft Combine, with 5 more named as alternates in the event some players could not come for whatever reason.^[75][76] Ten invited players declined to attend for various reasons, including three players completely on the international scale. Eighteen more players that were guaranteed invitations were also players testing out their draft stocks during the event. Eleven players participating in the event were seniors, the lowest number ever of combine participants who had exhausted their college eligibility. During the event, six different players were deemed injured either before or during this year's Draft Combine. At the end of the May 24 college deadline, eight players who originally declared for the NBA Draft and were invited to the Draft Combine this year, including potential "none-and-done" Kentucky freshman redshirt Hamidou Diallo, ultimately returned to college for at least one more season.

Draft lottery

The 2017 NBA draft lottery was held on May 16.

^ 1: The Boston Celtics exercised the option to swap first-round picks with the 20–62 Brooklyn Nets on April 3, 2017.^[A] They traded the pick to the Philadelphia 76ers four days before the draft began.^[B]
^ 2: The Philadelphia 76ers exercised the option to swap first-round picks with the Sacramento Kings after the names of the top three teams were revealed.^[C] It was then used to swap their own pick with Boston four days before the draft began.^[B]
^ 3: The New Orleans Pelicans' first round pick was conveyed to the Sacramento Kings because it fell outside of the top three.^[D]

Invited attendees

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.^[77] 10 players were invited to the 2017 NBA draft on June 8, with three more of them being invited two days later.^[78] Seven more players would be invited to complete the green room listing on June 14, bringing the total invite list to 20. The following players (listed alphabetically) were confirmed as invites for the event this year.

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

Draft-day trades occurred on June 22, 2017, the day of the draft.

Notes

References

External links

• Official site