The 2016 NBA draft was held on June 23, 2016, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It was televised nationally in the U.S. by ESPN, and was live streamed for the first time in NBA draft history by The Vertical. This draft was also notable for providing the most international draft prospects in draft history, with 28 different players representing different countries instead of the United States of America.
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The 2016 NBA draft was held on June 23, 2016, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. It was televised nationally in the U.S. by ESPN, and was live streamed for the first time in NBA draft history by The Vertical. This draft was also notable for providing the most international draft prospects in draft history, with 28 different players representing different countries instead of the United States of America. It beat out the 2004 NBA draft for the most culturally diverse draft in league history. A record-high 162 under-classed draft prospects had declared themselves for eligibility at the April 24 deadline, 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 25. At the end of the May 25 deadline, there were 57 players confirming their intentions of returning to school, thus leaving the grand total of underclassmen participating in the NBA draft as 59. 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. The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league’s 2011 collective bargaining agreement with its players union.
Players are automatically eligible if they meet the following criteria: Based on the following rules, players who meet the criteria for international players are automaticallyeligible if they are not one of the 72 players entering the 2016 draft as 72 players who do not meet any of the criteria. Players can withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration date, which is 10 days after the NBA Draft Combine. A player who has hired an agent will forfeit his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted. Players listed in this region have publicly indicated that they have hired agents, planned to do so around this time, or made themselves their own agents. International players that had previously declared this year didn’t declare in another prior year of the draft about days before June 13, 2016. There were 33 international prospects that expressed interest in entering the draft on June 13. The second Australian No. 1 draft pick was the first Austrian to be selected into the NBA, the first high school prospect to be taken in the first round since the 2015 NBA draft.
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