The draft was conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's new 2011
collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players union. The CBA that ended the
2011 lockout instituted no immediate changes to the draft, but called for a committee of owners and players to discuss future changes. Since the 2011 CBA, the basic eligibility rules have been: • All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players eligible for the 2015 draft must be born on or before December 31, 1996. • Any player who is not an "international player", as defined in the CBA, must be at least one year removed from the graduation of his high school class.
Early entrants Player who are not automatically eligible must declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than 60 days before the draft. For the 2015 draft, this date fell on April 26. After this date, "early entry" players may attend NBA pre-draft camps and individual team workouts to show off their skills and obtain feedback regarding their draft positions. Under the CBA, a player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration date, which is 10 days before the draft. Under NCAA rules at that time, players only had until April 16 to withdraw from the draft and maintain their college eligibility. In January 2016, the NCAA changed its draft withdrawal date to 10 days after the end of the annual
NBA Draft Combine in May, with the
2016 draft the first to be held under the new rule. A player who has hired an
agent will forfeit his remaining college eligibility, regardless of whether he is drafted. Also, while the CBA allows a player to withdraw from the draft twice, On June 15, the withdrawal deadline, 34 early entry candidates withdrew from the draft and one early entry candidate is added, leaving 47 collegiate players and 11 international players as the early entry candidates for the draft. •
Cliff Alexander – F,
Kansas (freshman) •
Justin Anderson – G/F,
Virginia (junior) •
Brandon Ashley – F,
Arizona (junior) •
Devin Booker – G,
Kentucky (freshman) •
Willie Cauley-Stein – F/C,
Kentucky (junior) •
Sam Dekker – F,
Wisconsin (junior) •
Michael Frazier II – G,
Florida (junior) •
Olivier Hanlan – G,
Boston College (junior) •
Montrezl Harrell – F,
Louisville (junior) •
Aaron Harrison – G,
Kentucky (sophomore) •
Andrew Harrison – G,
Kentucky (sophomore) •
Tyler Harvey – G,
Eastern Washington (junior) •
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson – F,
Arizona (sophomore) •
R.J. Hunter – G,
Georgia State (junior) •
Vince Hunter – C,
UTEP (sophomore) •
Charles Jackson – F,
Tennessee Tech (junior) •
Dakari Johnson – C,
Kentucky (sophomore) •
Stanley Johnson – F,
Arizona (freshman) •
Tyus Jones – G,
Duke (freshman) •
Trevor Lacey – G,
NC State (junior) •
Kevon Looney – C,
UCLA (freshman) •
Trey Lyles – F,
Kentucky (freshman) •
Jarell Martin – F,
LSU (sophomore) •
Chris McCullough – F,
Syracuse (freshman) •
Jordan Mickey – F,
LSU (sophomore) •
Luis Montero – F,
Westchester CC (sophomore) • /
Jahlil Okafor – C,
Duke (freshman) •
Kelly Oubre Jr. – G,
Kansas (freshman) •
Ashton Pankey – F,
Manhattan (junior) •
Cameron Payne – G,
Murray State (sophomore) •
Terran Petteway – G,
Nebraska (junior) •
Bobby Portis – F,
Arkansas (sophomore) •
Michael Qualls – G,
Arkansas (junior) •
Terry Rozier – G,
Louisville (sophomore) •
D'Angelo Russell – G,
Ohio State (freshman) •
Satnam Singh – C,
IMG Academy (postgraduate) •
Deonta Stocks – G,
West Georgia (sophomore) •
Jherrod Stiggers – G,
Houston (junior) •
Aaron Thomas – G,
Florida State (junior) • /
J.P. Tokoto – F,
North Carolina (junior) • /
Karl-Anthony Towns – C,
Kentucky (freshman) •
Myles Turner – C,
Texas (freshman) •
Robert Upshaw – C,
Washington (sophomore) •
Rashad Vaughn – G,
UNLV (freshman) •
Chris Walker – F,
Florida (sophomore) •
Justise Winslow – F,
Duke (freshman) •
Christian Wood – C,
UNLV (sophomore)
International players •
Dimitrios Agravanis – F/C,
Olympiacos Piraeus (
Greece) •
Willy Hernangómez – F/C,
Baloncesto Sevilla (
Spain) •
Mario Hezonja – F,
FC Barcelona Lassa (
Spain) •
Mouhammadou Jaiteh – C,
JSF Nanterre (
France) •
Lee Jong-hyun – F/C,
Korea University (
South Korea) •
Nikola Milutinov – C,
Partizan Belgrade (
Serbia) •
Cedi Osman – F,
Anadolu Efes (
Turkey) •
Bobby Ray Parks Jr. – G,
Hapee Fresh Fighters (
PBA D-League) •
Kristaps Porziņģis – C,
Baloncesto Sevilla (
Spain) •
Nikola Radičević – G,
Baloncesto Sevilla (
Spain) •
Juan Pablo Vaulet – F,
Estudiantes de Bahía (
Argentina) •
Adin Vrabac – F,
TBB Trier (
Germany)
Automatically eligible entrants Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria: • They have completed 4 years of their college eligibility. • If they graduated from high school in the U.S., but did not enroll in a U.S. college or university, four years have passed since their high school class graduated. • They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team outside of the NBA, anywhere in the world, and have played under that contract. Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria: • They are least 22 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players born on or before December 31, 1993, are automatically eligible for the 2015 draft. • They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team outside of the NBA
within the United States, and have played under that contract. Based on the eligibility rules, every
college seniors who have completed their college eligibility and every "international" players who were born on or before December 31, 1993, are automatically eligible for the draft. However, there are other players who became automatically eligible even though they have not completed their four-year college eligibility. ==Combine==