Was not sure it was already posted! http://www.nba.com/news/early_entry_020517.html Player School Height Status Brandon Bender Louisville 6-9 Freshman Lee Benson Jr. Brown Mackie JC (Kansas) 6-9 Freshman Rodney Bias Shelton State (Alabama) 6-9 Sophomore Cordell Billups Pierce College (Washington) 6-3 Sophomore Carlos Boozer Duke 6-9 Junior Curtis Borchardt Stanford 6-11 Junior Caron Butler Connecticut 6-7 Sophomore DeAngelo Collins Inglewood HS (California) 6-10 HS Senior Lenny Cooke Central Flint HS (Michigan) 6-6 HS Senior Willie Deane Purdue 6-1 Junior Henry Domercant Eastern Illinois 6-4 Junior Mike Dunleavy Duke 6-9 Junior Kevin Gaines Houston 6-4 Sophomore Drew Gooden Kansas 6-10 Junior Rod Grizzard Alabama 6-8 Junior Marcus Haislip Tennessee 6-10 Junior Rashid Hardwick Eastern Oklahoma State 7-0 Freshman Adam Harrington Auburn 6-5 Junior Brandon Hunter Ohio 6-7 Junior Casey Jacobsen Stanford 6-6 Junior Chris Jefferies Fresno State 6-8 Junior Jared Jeffries Indiana 6-10 Sophomore Muhammed Lasege Louisville 6-11 Sophomore Tito Maddox Fresno State 6-4 Sophomore Kei Madison Okaloosa-Walton (Florida) 6-8 Sophomore Roger Mason Jr. Virginia 6-5 Junior Chris Massie Memphis 6-8 Junior Glen McGowan Pepperdine 6-8 Sophomore Uche Nsonwu-Amadi Wyoming 6-10 Junior Uche Okafor Missouri 6-11 Junior William “Smush” Parker Fordham 6-4 Sophomore Marlon Parmer New Mexico 6-2 Junior Giedrius Rinkevicius Bridgton Academy (Maine) 7-2 HS Senior Brandon Roy Garfield HS (Washington) 6-6 HS Senior Kareem Rush Missouri 6-6 Junior Jamal Sampson California 6-11 Freshman Julian Sensley Fresno State 6-8 Freshman Eddie Shelby Dixie State College (Utah) 6-3 Sophomore Bobby Smith Robert Morris (Illinois) 6-3 Junior Theron Smith Ball State 6-8 Junior Melvin Steward Eastern New Mexico 6-4 Junior Amare Stoudemire Cypress Creek HS (Orlando) 6-10 HS Senior Marcus Taylor Michigan State 6-3 Sophomore Terrell Taylor Creighton 6-3 Junior Dajuan Wagner Memphis 6-3 Freshman Adrian Walton Fordham 6-2 Freshman Joseph Ward Fort Hays State (Kansas) 6-6 Junior Omar Weaver Riverside CC (California) 6-8 Freshman Chris Wilcox Maryland 6-10 Sophomore Troy Wiley Rhode Island 6-8 Junior Frank Williams Illinois 6-3 Junior George Williams Houston 6-8 Junior Jay Williams Duke 6-2 Junior Qyntel Woods NE Mississippi CC 6-8 Sophomore The following is the list of international players who have applied for early entry into NBA Draft 2002: Player School Height Date of Birth Jose Manuel Calderon Fuenlabrada (Spain) 6-2 1981 Boris Diaw Pau Orthez (France) 6-7 1982 Peter Fehse SV Halle (Germany) 6-11 1983 Andreas Gliniadakis Panellinios (Greece) 7-0 1981 Maybyner “Nene” Hilario Vasco da Gama (Brazil) 6-9 1982 Hakan Koseoglu Darussafaka (Turkey) 6-2 1981 Nenad Krstic Partizan (Yugoslavia) 6-11 1983 Zaur Pachulia Ulker (Turkey) 6-11 1984 Miljan Pupovic Hemofarm Vrsac (Yugoslavia) 6-10 1983 Mladen Sekularac FMP Zeleznik (Yugoslavia) 6-8 1981 Christos Tapoutos AEK Athens (Greece) 6-7 1982 Nikoloz Tskitishvili Benetton Treviso (Italy) 6-11 1983 Anderson Varejao F.C. Barcelona (Spain) 6-6 1982 Agron Xiarchos Peristeri (Greece) 6-11 1981
I've seen other places mention this, so I'll clear it up here before anyone asks: no, Yao Ming is not on the list. Yes, he is in the draft. Why? Because he was born in 1980 and under the NBA's foreign-entry rules, he is automatically eligible to be selected. The only "early-entry" that he had to go through was to get out of China.
also, guys like David Andersen, Juan Carlos Navarro, Luis Scola, Jiri Welsch, and Bostjan Nachbar are in the draft for the same reason.
I hope a lot of these guys haven't signed with agents so they can go back. No telling who's whispering sweet nothings (sorry, spirit of Fran rose up like a cow in the field going mooo...) into Kevin Gaines' ear. Man, the NBDL is going to be one competitive league next year.
<i>No telling who's whispering sweet nothings (sorry, spirit of Fran rose up like a cow in the field going mooo...) into Kevin Gaines' ear. </i> It's more likely that Gaines' decision is based on the fact that UH won't let him come back.
