NBA Draft 2013: List of Early Entrants
By Josh Sanchez
The NBA announced the full list of college underclassmen who has entered the 2013 NBA Draft. While there are some notable names on the list — Nerlens Noel, Michael Carter-Williams, Trey Burke and Ben McLemore to name a few — there are an overwhelming amount of players that made questionable decisions by throwing their hat in the mix.
The league also announced the list of international players who will be draft eligible when their big day comes this summer at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
Here is the complete list of underclassmen (listed in alphabetical order by last name) that declared for the 2013 NBA Draft:
- Steven Adams (Pittsburgh,7-0)
- C.J. Aiken (St. Joseph’s, 6-9)
- Anthony Bennett (UNLV, 6-8)
- Vander Blue (Marquette, 6-4)
- Lorenzo Brown (North Carolina State, 6-5)
- Reggie Bullock (North Carolina, 6-7)
- Trey Burke (Michigan, 6-0)
- Kentavious Caldwell-Pope (Georgia, 6-5)
- Michael Carter-Williams (Syracuse, 6-5)
- Adrien Coleman (Bethune-Cookman, 6-5)
- Allen Crabbe (California, 6-6)
- Dewayne Dedmon (Southern California, 7-0)
- Gorgui Dieng (Louisville, 6-11)
- Jamaal Franklin (San Diego State, 6-5)
- Archie Goodwin, (Kentucky, 6-4)
- Tim Hardaway Jr. (Michigan, 6-6)
- Grant Jerrett (Arizona, 6-10)
- Christian Kabongo (New Mexico State, 6-4)
- Myck Kabongo (Texas, 6-1)
- Shane Larkin (Miami, 5-11)
- Ricky Ledo (Providence, 6-7)
- Alex Len (Maryland, 7-1)
- C.J. Leslie (North Carolina State, 6-9)
- Nurideen Lindsey (Rider, 6-3)
- Amath M’Baye (Oklahoma, 6-9)
- Ray McCallum (Detroit, 6-3)
- Ben McLemore (Kansas, 6-5)
- Tony Mitchell (North Texas, 6-8)
- Shabazz Muhammad (UCLA, 6-6)
- Nerlens Noel (Kentucky, 6-10)
- Victor Oladipo (Indiana, 6-5)
- Kelly Olynyk (Gonzaga, 7-0)
- Norvel Pelle (Los Angeles College Prep. Acad. 6-9)
- Otto Porter Jr. (Georgetown, 6-8)
- Marshawn Powell (Arkansas, 6-7)
- Phil Pressey (Missouri, 5-11)
- Andre Roberson (Colorado, 6-7)
- Joshua Simmons (Spartanburg Methodist JC, 6-4)
- Trevis Simpson (North Carolina-Greensboro, 6-4)
- Tony Snell (New Mexico, 6-7)
- Tahj Tate (Delaware State, 6-4)
- John Taylor (Fresno Pacific, 6-1)
- Adonis Thomas (Memphis, 6-7)
- Deshaun Thomas (Ohio State, 6-7)
- B.J. Young (Arkansas, 6-3)
- Cody Zeller (Indiana, 6-11)
Here are the names of international players who declared:
- Alejandro Abrines , Barcelona (Spain)
- Giannis Adetokunbo, Filathlitikos (Greece)
- Francois Affia Ambadiang, Geoplin Slovan (Slovenia)
- Nemanja Besovic, Partizan (Serbia)
- Bogdan Bogdanovic, Partizan (Serbia)
- Matias Bortolin, Arkadia (Austria)
- Linos Chrysikopoulos, PAOK (Greece)
- Laszlo Dobos, Zaragoza (Spain)
- Dorde Drenovac, Biancoblu (Italy)
- Viktor Gaddefors, Oknoplast Bologna (Italy)
- Rudy Gobert, Cholet (France)
- Mouhammadou Jaiteh, Boulogne (France)
- Livio Jean-Charles, ASVEL (France)
- Sergey Karasev, Triumph (Russia)
- Louis Labeyrie, Paris-Levallois (France)
- Raul Neto, Lagun Aro GBC (Spain)
- Philipp Neumann, Brose Baskets (Germany)
- Lucas Riva Nogueira, Estudiantes (Spain)
- Alexandre Paranhos, Flamengo (Brazil)
- Artem Pustovyi, Khimik (Ukraine)
- Bogdan Radosavljevic, Bayern Muenchen (Germany)
- Marko Ramljak , Zadar (Croatia)
- Dario Saric, Cibona (Croatia)B
- Dennis Schroder, New Yorker Phantoms (Germany)
- Strahinja Stojacic, Smederevo (Serbia)
- Walter Tavares, Gran Canaria (Spain)
- Daniel Theis, Ratiopharm (Germany)
- Janis Timma, Ventspils (Latvia)
The 2013 NBA Draft is set to be held on June 27, 2013.