NBA draft 2015
The 2015 NBA Draft took place on June 25, 2015 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn , New York . In two draft rounds, the 30 NBA teams were able to secure the rights to 60 young players from the NCAA college league and abroad.
In the draft lottery on May 19, 2015, the final selection order was determined. The 14 teams that did not qualify for the playoffs of the 2014/15 season took part in this weighted lottery . The Minnesota Timberwolves first won the lottery, with a 25.0% chance of the first pick , ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers and Philadelphia 76ers . Candidates for the first pick were Dominican center Karl-Anthony Towns , center Jahlil Okafor , point guard Emmanuel Mudiay and point guard D'Angelo Russell .
All players who signed up for the draft had to be born before December 31, 1996, regardless of their school education or nationality. If they were not an "international player," it must have been at least a year between their registration date and their final year of high school .
In the first place, Karl-Anthony Towns was selected. It was followed by D'Angelo Russell and Jahlil Okafor.
Round 1
Abbreviations: PG = Point Guard , SG = Shooting Guard , SF = Small Forward , PF = Power Forward , C = Center
round 2
Players not included
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Cliff Alexander ( United States ), University of Kansas
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Duje Dukan ( Croatia ), Iowa State University
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Mouhammadou Jaiteh ( France ), JSF Nanterre
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TJ McConnell ( United States ), University of Arizona
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Luis Montero ( Dominican Republic ), Westchester Community College
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Mateusz Ponitka ( Poland ), Telenet Oostende
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Christian Wood ( United States ), UNLV
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolves win the lottery
- ↑ Draft Tracker
- ↑ According to Article X, Paragraph 1c of the 2005 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement ( Memento from January 23, 2012 on WebCite ) (PDF; 79 kB)
- ↑ A Towns and Many Surprises