Many procedures and rules of NBA draft are still like "seeing flowers in the fog" for some China fans. According to the time division, the annual NBA draft can be roughly divided into two parts. The first part is the draft lottery: the NBA began to implement the draft lottery from 1985. Every year when the playoffs are in full swing, the NBA will convene teams that fail to enter the playoffs to hold a lottery ceremony to determine the ownership of the top three draft picks in the future. In the lucky draw ceremony, the host will take out 1- 14 ping-pong balls and put them into the container. Four balls are randomly selected from 14 balls, regardless of numerical order. A * * can produce 100 1 possible combinations. Before the draw, the teams that didn't qualify for the playoffs had been ranked in reverse order according to the regular season record, and the corresponding combination number (probability) of winning the first prize was obtained. For example, 14 teams did not enter the playoffs. In this 14 team, the eagle with the worst record gets 250 combinations, that is, there is a 25% chance to win the first place, and the wasp with the second worst record gets 199, that is, 19.9% chance, and so on. After the draw for No.1 draft, four table tennis balls were put back into the container, and the ownership of No.2 and No.3 draft picks was decided again. After that, the remaining No.4-30 draft picks in the first and second rounds were decided in reverse order according to the results of the regular season. In addition to the regular draft procedures, the NBA has added some special rules for American high school graduates and overseas players to participate in the draft.
The following are the provisions of the NBA labor agreement for these two types of players to participate in the NBA draft.
(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, an overseas player who has never participated in an American college basketball team is still eligible to participate in the draft before his 22nd birthday: he must be at least 65,438+08 years old before the draft; You must send a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the start of the draft, expressing your wish to be qualified for 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.
Lottery rules: put 14 ping-pong balls marked with the numbers 1 to 14 into a drum, and choose four balls from them to form a combined result. A * * will have 100 1 combination results. If one result is ignored, the remaining 1000 results will be randomly assigned to 13 teams by the computer.
The worse the team's record in the regular season, the more results will be distributed. The team at the bottom of the league will get 225 results.
Then shake out four balls like a lottery, and a group of four numbers is born. Which team's performance includes this, it will have the first prize. Then put the four balls back in the bucket, repeat the above process twice, and take the second and third draft (note: if the ignored result is shaken out, it will be invalid, put the balls back and repeat the above procedure). Teams that don't get the top three picks will get the fourth to thirteenth rookies according to their regular season records. The worse their record, the higher their ranking in the draft.
The draft stipulates that players who have settled in the United States and completed high school can send a written notice to the NBA 45 days before the start of the draft, and after expressing their willingness to give up entering the university to continue their studies, they can be qualified to participate in the NBA draft. Once a player is selected by any NBA team, the following rules will apply:
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.
Then this draft is a "second choice" for him. Players who are selected as "second choice" will abide by the applicable rules. If a player is selected because he gave up his college basketball qualification in the draft, he has not signed a player contract with the team that selected him, and has not been selected in the "second choice" (as explained in the previous statement), we call it a newcomer free agent.