2025 NBA draft

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2025 NBA Draft
General information
Sport Basketball
Date(s)June 25–26, 2025
Location Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York)
Network(s)
Overview
59 total selections in 2 rounds
League National Basketball Association
  2024
2026 

The 2025 NBA draft will be the 79th edition of the National Basketball Association's annual draft. Like the 2024 draft, this draft will take place over two nights. The draft will consist of 59 picks as opposed to the full 60 picks due to the New York Knicks losing a second round pick from a free agency violation in 2022. [1]

Contents

The first round of the draft will take place on June 25, 2025, while the second round will take place on June 26. Both rounds will be held at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The time between second-round picks will remain four minutes, a change made from the previous year. [2] [3]

Eligibility and entrants

The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's 2023 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players' union.

Early entrants

Players who were not automatically eligible had to declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than at least 60 days before the event. Under the CBA a player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration deadline, which usually falls 10 days before the draft at 5:00 pm EDT (2100 UTC). Under current NCAA rules, players usually have until 10 days after the draft combine to withdraw from the draft and retain college eligibility.

A player who has hired an agent for purposes of negotiating with professional teams [a] retains his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted after an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee. Players who declare for the NBA draft and are not selected have the opportunity to return to their school for at least another year only after terminating all agreements with their agents, [b] who must have been certified. [5]

Automatically eligible entrants

Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

Notes

  1. Due to changes in rules regarding student athlete compensation in the 2020s, players can hire agents to manage appearances and endorsements while retaining college athletic eligibility.
  2. Specifically agents hired to negotiate with professional teams. Relationships with agents hired for other purposes are not affected.

References

  1. Bontemps, Tim (December 21, 2022). "Knicks lose 2025 second-round pick over Jalen Brunson signing". ESPN . Archived from the original on December 21, 2022. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  2. "NBA Draft 2025 to take place June 25–26 at Barclays Center". NBA.com . January 28, 2025. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  3. "2025 NBA draft set for June 25–26 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn". ESPN . January 28, 2025. Archived from the original on January 28, 2025. Retrieved January 28, 2025.
  4. Goodman, Jeff (January 13, 2016). "College players given extra time to mull NBA draft decision". ESPN. Archived from the original on July 13, 2016. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  5. "Flexibility for going pro and getting a degree". NCAA. Archived from the original on December 8, 2020. Retrieved April 19, 2023.