Potential NBA draftees will be required to attend Draft Combine / News - Basketnews.com

Starting in 2024, payers will no longer be automatically eligible after signing with G-League Ignite, Overtime Elite, or in the NBL. All prospects will be required to fully attend the Draft Combine. Failure to do so, except in clearly notes cases, will result in the player being ineligible for the draft.

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The new Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA) between the NBA and NBPA has brought a significant change in the draft process.

Starting in 2024, all players that are invited to participate in the NBA Draft Combine will be required to attend it. Otherwise, they will be ineligible to be selected in the draft until the "first subsequent draft for which the player attends and fully participates"," Jonathan Givony from ESPN reports.

The change has been made to prevent highly touted prospects and their agents from withholding medical information from seemingly less attractive franchises, Givony writes. The top prospects often missed the combine entirely or participated only partially in the past. After the change, it is expected that the Combine will be more compelling.

Prospects who are physically unable to participate due to various reasons such as playing professionally overseas with the season still in play, a family tragedy, the birth of a child, or due to injury, as determined by the medical director of the combine, will be required to complete components of the combine at a later date.

The medical information of the top prospects will not be shared will all NBA teams. For example, the info of the projected no. 1 overall pick will be shared only among the teams picking in the Top 10, info of players 2-6 will be shared with the Top 15, while info of the players 7-10 will be shared with the Top 25.

The only exception will be made when there is a potentially life-threatening injury or a medical condition that renders the player unable to play basketball.

If the player fails to do it, it will result in him being ineligible to be drafted.

Additionally, the league moved away from automatic eligibility. The players who sign with clubs such as the G-League Ignite, Overtime Elite, or any of the teams in the Australian NBL will no longer be automatically eligible for the upcoming NBA draft.

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