Instructions for application of high school graduates
(1) Players who have settled in the United States and completed high school education can be eligible to participate in the NBA draft after giving a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the start of the draft, expressing their willingness to give up entering the university for further study. Once a player is selected by any NBA team, the following rules will apply:
(i) According to (b) below, if a player does not join the college basketball team, he will be eligible to participate in the NBA draft. During the period from the day when he gave up the college entrance examination opportunity to the day when he was qualified to participate in the draft, if an NBA team invited the player as required every year, then the team would be the only team that could sign a player contract with him.
In this part, once a player fails to give up the qualification to join the college basketball team after obtaining the qualification of the NBA draft, the draft will be regarded as his "second choice".
Players who are selected as "second choice" will abide by the applicable rules. If a player is selected in the draft because he gave up his college basketball qualification, he did not sign a player contract with the team that selected him, nor was he selected in the "second choice" (as explained in the previous statement), we call it a newcomer free agent.
(ii) If a player joins the college basketball team, he can still be eligible to participate in the NBA draft once he gives up the opportunity to continue playing for the college basketball team. At that time, the NBA team that selected him in the draft and sent him an invitation every year as required will reserve the priority to negotiate and sign a player contract with him one year after the draft date.
In this part, once a player fails to give up the qualification to participate in the college basketball team after obtaining the qualification of the NBA draft, the draft will be regarded as the "primary election" for him, and the next draft will be regarded as the "second choice". Players who are selected as "second choice" will abide by the applicable rules.
(b) Players who have settled in the United States and completed high school will be eligible to participate in the next NBA draft if they are not eligible to participate in the NBA draft and sign contracts with professional basketball teams outside the United States. If selected, he will be regarded as a "player" as defined in Section 4 above. In this section, "professional basketball team" refers to a basketball team that pays any kind of money or remuneration that exceeds the general living expenses to the basketball players who play for it in any country.
Rules for overseas players to participate in NBA draft-excerpt from NBA labor agreement
(a) In this section, "overseas player" means any amateur or professional basketball player who is designated to live outside the United States.
(b) Overseas players are eligible to participate in the NBA draft after reaching the age of 22. Any player who is over 22 years old and has not been selected in the draft on his 22nd birthday is called a rookie free agent.
(c) Despite the provisions in subsection (b) above, overseas players who have never participated in the American college basketball team are still eligible to participate in the draft before their 22nd birthday:
(1) Before conscription, he must be at least 18 years old;
(ii) He must give a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the draft starts, expressing his wish to be qualified to participate in the draft.
(d) If an overseas player plays for the American college basketball team in the season before the draft, he must abide by the provisions in Section 5 above on continuing to complete or give up college studies.
Brief introduction of NBA draft lottery system
Young players eager to enter the NBA basketball hall are always looking forward to the day when their dreams come true. When they are wearing brand-new suits, accompanied by relatives and friends, they are waiting for a called voice. "The first player in the NBA draft belongs to the Cleveland Cavaliers, and they chose ..." When NBA President david stern read this exciting sentence, the selected players would hug their relatives and friends, then go forward to shake hands with Stern and put on the hat of the new team-this is the most common but exciting scene in the annual NBA draft.
NBA draft
The Board of Directors of NBA held a meeting in Salt Lake City in June, 1984. At that time, they voted to decide the order in which the teams that missed the playoffs chose the first round rookie. This system started at 1985. Before that, between 1966- 1984, the team with the worst record in the east and west will decide who will win the first draft by flipping a coin.
In the NBA draft draw, the team with the worst record in the regular season is most likely to win the first draft, while the team with the best record in the playoffs has the least chance. The draw will determine the order of the first three teams, while the remaining teams that missed the playoffs will be selected in the reverse order of the regular season records.
In the lucky draw ceremony, the host will put 1- 14 ping-pong balls in a drum container. Randomly selecting four balls from 14 balls can generate 100 1 possible combinations, regardless of the selection order. Before the draw, the teams participating in the draw were ranked according to the regular season and got the combination of 1000. Four table tennis balls will be drawn to the top of the container in turn to form a four-digit combination, and the team that gets this combination will get the first draft. Then, the four ping-pong balls will be sent back to the bottom of the container, and then the previous situation will be repeated to decide who the second and third draft picks belong to. If the selected combination is not within the allocation range, the lottery will be re-drawn. After the first round of the NBA 13 draft, the teams participating in the playoffs will get the draft pick in reverse order according to the regular season record. In the second round, all teams will choose according to the record of the regular season.
Off-season rule
NBA games are divided into regular season and playoffs. The playoffs usually start in late April and end in mid-June, when the champion will be decided.
There are home and away games in the NBA regular season. 29 teams will play 1 189 games in the regular season, and each team will participate in 82 games in the regular season. However, in the regular season, the number of matches between teams is different. Teams in the same league and division, two hosts and two guests, ***4 games; Teams in different leagues play one host and two games; There are two or three games between two teams in different divisions of the same league. The number of games played by each team is different, but it can be guaranteed that the total number of games played by each team in the regular season is 82.
After the regular season, the team with the highest winning percentage in the East ranked first, and the team with the highest winning percentage in another region in the East ranked second. The other six teams are ranked in order of winning percentage (winning percentage = number of wins /82), and the ranking method in the West is the same. The top 8 teams in the East and West, *** 16 teams will qualify for the playoffs. The playoffs are first played within the East-West League, and the forms of confrontation are as follows; 1 pair is 8, the fourth pair is 5, the third pair is 6, and the second pair is 7. The elimination system is adopted in the playoffs, and the best of seven games is adopted in the competition. Whoever wins the first four games can eliminate the opponent. According to the principle of 2-2- 1- 1- 1, the home and away games are arranged, and the top teams in the regular season get an extra home advantage.