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NBA
The NBA Draft is open to all players who have turned 19 years and older by January 1 of the draft year. If you have completed your college eligibility and your original class has graduated, you are automatically eligible for the draft. If you didn't attend college but are more than four years removed from high school, you are eligible. If you played in a foreign league before your draft year, you are eligible. If you are an international player 22 years or older, you are eligible. Otherwise you may have to declare yourself as an early entrant. You must do this in writing to the NBA commissioner. Becoming draft-eligible is easy. Actually getting drafted is the hard part. Decide whether you want to withdraw from the draft by the league's deadline, which is 10 days before the event.
If You Are a College Underclassman
Review the collective bargaining agreement to see if you must declare yourself as an early entry.Explore your draft potential before surrendering your college eligibility. Request an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee in writing two days after the NCAA championship game. Assess the response from the committee, which includes executives from 20 NBA teams. Ask your coach to check with NBA general managers to get additional opinions.Wait until the NBA's early entry deadline before deciding whether to enter the draft. That deadline is 60 days before the draft. If you declare for the draft right after the season, you will be subject to the NCAA's "early entry deadline" one day before the start of the spring signing period. That deadline usually comes about two weeks before than the NBA deadline, forcing you to make your decision sooner than necessary.Make your request for early entry status, if that is your wish, in writing to NBA Commissioner Adam Silver at 645 Fifth Ave., New York, NY 10022. Make sure the NBA receives that letter at least 60 days before the June draft. Fill out and return the application the NBA will send you in response to your letter.
See NBA CBA for more information.
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MLB
The Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft is held every year in June by conference call among the 30 Major League Clubs. The Clubs take turns selecting players in reverse order of their won-lost records at the close of the previous regular season. The order of selection is without regard to League.The Major League Rules govern which players are eligible for selection in the Draft. These Rules are detailed, but the basic eligibility criteria can be described as follows: Generally, a player is eligible for selection if the player is a resident of the United States or Canada and the player has never before signed a Major League or Minor League contract. Residents of Puerto Rico and other territories of the United States are eligible for the Draft. Also considered residents are players who enroll in a high school or college in the United States, regardless of where they are from originally. Certain groups of players are ineligible for selection, generally because they are still in school. The basic categories of players eligible to be drafted are:
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High school players, if they have graduated from high school and have not yet attended college or junior college;
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College players, from four-year colleges who have either completed their junior or senior years or are at least 21 years old; and
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Junior college players, regardless of how many years of school they have completed
A Club generally retains the rights to sign a selected player until 11:59 PM (EDT) August 15, or until the player enters, or returns to, a four-year college on a full-time basis. A player who is drafted and does not sign with the Club that selected him may be drafted again at a future year's Draft, so long as the player is eligible for that year's Draft. A Club may not select a player again in a subsequent year, unless the player has consented to the re-selection. A player who is eligible to be selected and is passed over by every Club becomes a free agent and may sign with any Club until the player enters, or returns to,
a four-year college full-time or enters or returns to, a junior college.
See MLB CBA for more information.
NFL
The NFL Draft takes place over three days (Thursday through Saturday) each spring.
Only the first round is held on Thursday. It starts at 8 p.m. Eastern time, and each team has 10 minutes to make its pick. The second and third rounds are on Friday; rounds 4-7 are on Saturday. Teams get seven minutes to make picks in the second round and five minutes in rounds 3-6. Teams only have four minutes for their seventh round and compensatory draft picks. If a team lets its time expire without making a choice, it can make a selection later — but it runs the risk of letting the next team on the clock take the player it was considering.
Every team has a table set up at the draft venue, where team representatives stay in constant contact with executives at each club’s headquarters. When a team decides on a selection, it communicates the player’s name from its draft room to its representatives at Selection Square. The team representative then writes the player’s name, position and school on a card and submits it to an NFL staff member known as a runner.
When the runner gets the card, the selection is official, and the draft clock is reset for the next pick. A second runner goes to the representatives of the team up next and lets them know who was chosen.
Upon receiving the card, the first runner immediately radios the selection to a NFL Player Personnel representative, who inputs the player’s name into a database that notifies all clubs of the pick. The runner also walks the card to the head table, where it’s given to Ken Fiore, vice president of player personnel.
Fiore reviews the name for accuracy and records the pick. He then shares the name with the NFL’s broadcast partners, the commissioner and other league or team representatives so they can announce the pick.
See NFL CBA for more information.
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