Beijing time on June 15, according to ESPN draft expert Jonathan Givony, eight more popular rookies accepted the league's invitation and will enter the Little Green Room to participate in the 2024 NBA draft. Counting the first 12 announced, a total of 20 players have been invited. Chinese-Canadian center Zhou Zhihao (Zach Eddy) declined the league's invitation and stayed at Purdue University to watch the NBA draft. The so-called "Little Green Room" is the assembly area in front of the NBA draft table, where popular rookies, their families and agents wait for President Silver to read their names.
The first list of 12 people invited includes Risashe, Sal, Klingen, Shepard, Buzelis, Castle, Knect, Salon, Holland, Cody William James, Devin Carter, Walter.
The second batch of eight people invited includes Dillingham, Topich, McCain, Keyshawn George, Collier, Missy, Furfe, and Filipovsky.
givony specifically pointed out that Dillingham completed the NBA combine trial requirements at the Lakers training facility this morning, clearing the way for an invitation.
previously reported that the total number of players on the Little Green Room roster is expected to be 23-24 people, so there may be rookies invited in the future. Although Zhou Zhihao is in the lottery zone in some draft mock rankings, reports indicate that he declined the invitation and chose to stay at Purdue University to watch the draft with family and friends.
Receiving an invitation is usually regarded as a positive sign for a player's draft situation, although in the past there have been some rookies who sat in the green room and fell to the second round. Bol Bol is one of them. He was 44th overall in the second round. He was selected in the first place, and the scene was quite embarrassing at the time.
Different rules than last year, this year players are only allowed to invite 6 people to sit at their respective tables, while last year they were allowed to invite 10 people.
nba draft will be held over two days for the first time. The first round will be held on June 27 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, while the second round will be held on June 28 at ESPN Studios in lower Manhattan. Therefore, players who are ultimately invited to the Green Room may be subject to additional scrutiny to avoid a situation where invited players and their families have to wait an extra day to hear their names called.
