About 2024 NBA Draft
Intro
The National Basketball Association (NBA) draft, which has taken place every year since 1947, is a highly anticipated occasion where teams choose qualified players to join the league.
The draft pool has grown to include players from international leagues, the G-League Ignite team, and youth professional basketball leagues, despite historically being dominated by college players.
Players who have finished their four years of college eligibility are automatically eligible, whereas underclassmen and international players must declare their eligibility. Eligibility varies depending on the player's background. The terms "early entrants" and "early entry candidates" are frequently used to describe these individuals.
2024 NBA Draft Dates & Location
The National Basketball Association's 78th annual draft will take place at Brooklyn's Barclays Center, New York, on June 26, 2024. The second round of the draft will take place on June 27, 2024.
The Phoenix Suns and the Philadelphia 76ers both lost second-round picks as a result of breaking the NBA's tampering rules during free agency, so the draft will only have 58 picks instead of the customary 60, which happened for the third consecutive year.
2024 NBA Draft Tickets
Tickets for the NBA Draft 2024 are now on sale. There is also an option available for NBA Draft Official Experience Packages, which can be purchased at the NBA website.
NBA Draft Format
In the NBA draft, there are two rounds with a total of 30 picks each. There are a total of 60 draft-eligible players chosen each year. Originally, each team was given two draft picks out of the 60 available, but now, teams are free to exchange their picks for players, additional picks, or cash. Teams frequently choose players from other teams.
Teams could choose as many players as they wanted before 1989. As a result, there were 21 rounds in the 1968 draft. To prevent this, since 1989, the draft has included two rounds. There will only be 58 picks in the draft this year as a result of the Phoenix Suns and Philadelphia 76ers receiving fines for violating free agency rules by holding early negotiations with players.
2024 NBA Draft Order
From the first pick in the first round to the 60th pick in the second round, picks are made in descending order. The draft lottery determines the draft's order. The 14 teams that failed to make the playoffs the previous year are eligible to participate in the draft lottery.
It is ideal for future stars to be selected by the teams with the worst records from the previous season before those with better records. To prevent teams from "tanking," or purposefully losing, in order to get the first pick, the draft lottery was instituted.
The chances of winning the lottery are equal for the bottom three teams (14%), while the chances of winning the top pick are decreasing for the fourth through 14th failed-to-make-playoffs teams. The 2024 NBA Draft order looks as shown in the table below:
| Round 1 | Pick | Team |
| 1 | 1 | Atlanta Hawks |
| 1 | 2 | Washington Wizards |
| 1 | 3 | Houston Rockets (from Brooklyn) |
| 1 | 4 | San Antonio Spurs |
| 1 | 5 | Detroit Pistons |
| 1 | 6 | Charlotte Hornets |
| 1 | 7 | Portland Trail Blazers |
| 1 | 8 | San Antonio Spurs (from Toronto) |
| 1 | 9 | Memphis Grizzlies |
| 1 | 10 | Utah Jazz |
| 1 | 11 | Chicago Bulls |
| 1 | 12 | Oklahoma City Thunder (from Houston) |
| 1 | 13 | Sacramento Kings |
| 1 | 14 | Portland Trail Blazers (from Golden State to Memphis to Boston) |
| 1 | 15 | Miami Heat |
| 1 | 16 | Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1 | 17 | Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1 | 18 | Orlando Magic |
| 1 | 19 | Toronto Raptors (from Indiana) |
| 1 | 20 | Cleveland Cavaliers |
| 1 | 21 | New Orleans Pelicans (from Milwaukee) |
| 1 | 22 | Phoenix Suns |
| 1 | 23 | Milwaukee Bucks (from New Orleans) |
| 1 | 24 | New York Knicks (from Dallas) |
| 1 | 25 | New York Knicks |
| 1 | 26 | Washington Wizards (from L.A. Clippers to Oklahoma City to Dallas) |
| 1 | 27 | Minnesota Timberwolves |
| 1 | 28 | Denver Nuggets |
| 1 | 29 | Utah Jazz (from Oklahoma City to Indiana to Toronto) |
| 1 | 30 | Boston Celtics |
| Round 2 | ||
| 2 | 31 | Toronto Raptors (from Detroit to L.A. Clippers to New York) |
| 2 | 32 | Utah Jazz (from Washington to Brooklyn to Detroit) |
| 2 | 33 | Milwaukee Bucks (from Portland via Sacramento) |
| 2 | 34 | Portland Trail Blazers (from Charlotte to New Orleans to Oklahoma City to Denver) |
| 2 | 35 | San Antonio Spurs |
| 2 | 36 | Indiana Pacers (from Toronto to Memphis to L.A. Clippers to Philadelphia) |
| 2 | 37 | Minnesota Timberwolves (from Memphis to Oklahoma City to Washington to L.A. Lakers) |
| 2 | 38 | New York Knicks (from Utah) |
| 2 | 39 | Memphis Grizzlies (from Brooklyn via Houston) |
| 2 | 40 | Portland Trail Blazers (from Atlanta) |
| 2 | 41 | Philadelphia 76ers (from Chicago to New Orleans to San Antonio to Boston) |
| 2 | 42 | Charlotte Hornets (from Houston via Oklahoma City) |
| 2 | 43 | Miami Heat |
| 2 | 44 | Houston Rockets (from Golden State via Atlanta) |
| 2 | 45 | Sacramento Kings |
| 2 | 46 | Los Angeles Clippers (from Indiana to Milwaukee to Memphis) |
| 2 | 47 | Orlando Magic |
| 2 | 48 | San Antonio Spurs (from L.A. Lakers via Memphis) |
| 2 | Philadelphia 76ers (forfeited due to tampering violation) | |
| 2 | 49 | Indiana Pacers (from Cleveland) |
| 2 | 50 | Indiana Pacers (from New Orleans) |
| 2 | 51 | Washington Wizards (from Phoenix) |
| 2 | 52 | Golden State Warriors (from Milwaukee via Indiana) |
| 2 | 53 | Detroit Pistons (from New York to Charlotte to Philadelphia) |
| 2 | 54 | Boston Celtics (from Dallas via Sacramento) |
| 2 | 55 | Los Angeles Lakers (from L.A. Clippers) |
| 2 | 56 | Denver Nuggets (from Minnesota via Oklahoma City) |
| 2 | 57 | Memphis Grizzlies (from Oklahoma City to Atlanta to Houston) |
| 2 | Phoenix Suns (from Denver via Orlando; forfeited due to tampering violation) | |
| 2 | 58 | Dallas Mavericks (from Boston via Charlotte) |
2024 NBA Draft Prospects
The current top 2024 NBA Draft prospects are as follows:
Alexandre Sarr - Power Forward/Center (PF/C) - Perth Wildcats
Zaccharie Risacher - Shooting Guard/Small Forward (SG/SF) - JL Bourg-en-Bresse
Reed Sheppard - Point Guard/Shooting Guard (PG/SG) - Kentucky
Ron Holland - Small Forward (SF) - G League Ignite
Cody Williams - Small Forward/Power Forward (SF/PF) - Colorado
Rob Dillingham - Point Guard/Shooting Guard (PG/SG) - Kentucky
Nikola Topić - Point Guard (PG) - KK Crvena Zvezda
Matas Buzelis - Small Forward (SF) - G League Ignite
Kyle Filipowski - Power Forward/Center (PF/C) - Duke
- Donovan Clingan - Center (C) - Connecticut
FAQs on NBA Draft
A. The 2024 NBA Draft will take place on Wednesday, June 26 and Thursday, June 27, 2024, at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
A. Tickets for the NBA Draft 2024 can be purchased on Ticketmaster.com, StubHub, Ticket Liquidator, Ticket Network, and GameTime. Official Experience Packages are also available for purchase.
A. The order for the NBA Draft is determined through the draft lottery, with teams that missed the playoffs having higher chances of getting higher draft picks.
A. The Atlanta Hawks have the first pick in the 2024 NBA Draft.
