NBA draft 2016
The 2016 NBA Draft took place on June 23, 2016 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 17, 2016, the final selection order was determined. The 14 teams that did not qualify for the playoffs of the 2015/16 season took part in this weighted lottery . The Philadelphia 76ers won the lottery, with a 25.0% chance of the first pick , ahead of the Los Angeles Lakers and Brooklyn Nets , who had to cede the draft rights to the Boston Celtics . The favorites for the first pick were Australian combo forward Ben Simmons from LSU and forward Brandon Ingram from Duke .
All players who signed up for the draft had to be born before December 31, 1997, 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 high school year.
Ben Simmons was chosen first by the Sixers. Brandon Ingram went second to the Los Angeles Lakers , Jaylen Brown third to the Boston Celtics .
particularities
Ben Simmons is the second Australian to be selected in first place after Andrew Bogut in 2005.
Buddy Hield is the first NBA player from the Bahamas since 1993, Jakob Pöltl is the very first Austrian in the NBA. Furthermore, with Paul Zipser, a German was selected in the second draft round.
Australian Thon Maker graduated from high school in Canada in 2015 , but decided to stay at the school for another year to meet the age requirement in the draft.
Domantas Sabonis is the son of the Hall of Famers Arvydas Sabonis .
The draft set a new record with 14 non-Americans in the first round of the draft and a total of 26 non-Americans in the entire draft.
Round 1
Abbreviations: PG = Point Guard , SG = Shooting Guard , SF = Small Forward , PF = Power Forward , C = Center
round 2
Individual evidence
- ↑ Sixers win NBA lottery for top pick; Lakers get No. 2, Celtics No. 3
- ↑ According to Article X, Paragraph 1c of the 2005 NBA Collective Bargaining Agreement ( Memento of May 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 79 kB)
- ↑ The 76ers get Simmons - Pöltl a raptor
- ↑ Stories from the 2016 draft