NBA Draft 2022: By the Numbers

It’s that point of 12 months once more! 

The NBA wastes little time transitioning from the finish of 1 season to the starting of the subsequent, and that course of kicks off with its annual draft.

This 12 months, the Big Apple is the host of the massive affair, and for 58 prospects, there has by no means been an even bigger night time of their younger lives.

Let’s go inside the numbers on the 2022 NBA Draft.

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When: Thursday at 7:30 p.m. ET.

Where: The Barclays Center in Brooklyn can be the house of the NBA Draft for the ninth consecutive 12 months (excluding the 2020 draft, which was digital). It can be broadcast on ABC and ESPN.

58: There are solely 58 picks on this 12 months’s draft, as a substitute of the ordinary 60. Milwaukee and Miami misplaced second-round choices on account of tampering in free company.

4: There are two groups with a whopping 4 picks in the draft: San Antonio (Nos. 9, 20, 25, 38) and Minnesota (Nos. 19, 40, 48, 50). Nine squads have three choices, whereas six will choose twice. Eight franchises have one choice.

0: Unless they’re energetic in the commerce market, 4 groups will watch the draft idly, with no present picks to their identify. They are Brooklyn, Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix and Utah.

6: John Calipari and the Kentucky Wildcats are referred to as frequent forces in the draft annually. Two completely different Wildcats squads personal the report for many draft picks from a single faculty in a single draft, with six choices apiece in each 2012 and 2015. They’re tied with the 1977 UNLV Runnin’ Rebels in that class.

In truth, one other Calipari-led troupe holds the report for many first-round picks in a single draft. The 2010 ‘Cats noticed 5 gamers go in the first spherical.

4: Kentucky is not the solely faculty with an plentiful draft historical past. Duke lays declare to the most No. 1 general picks in draft historical past (Zion Williamson, Kyrie Irving, Elton Brand, Art Heyman). Unsurprisingly although, Kentucky is an in depth second with three. UNC and Kentucky share the report for many lottery picks in a single draft (4) since the lottery’s growth to 14 groups in 2004.

Five Blue Devils (Paolo Banchero, AJ Griffin, Trevor Keels, Wendell Moore Jr. and Mark Williams) have an opportunity to be drafted this 12 months, whereas the faculty has had at the very least two gamers taken in the lottery in 4 of the previous seven years.

43: Kentucky leads all faculty packages with a staggering 43 first-round picks. Duke is simply behind, with 40.

2004: The final time the Orlando Magic picked first general, they landed Dwight Howard, a future Hall of Famer. They’re trying to seize related magic this 12 months.

12: A university freshman has been drafted first general in every of the previous 12 years. The final non-freshman picked first general was Blake Griffin in 2009.

5: If Auburn’s Jabari Smith hears his identify known as in slots 1-5, he’ll develop into the faculty’s fifth top-five choose in class historical past, becoming a member of Charles Barkley (1984), Chuck Person (1986), Chris Morris (1988) and Isaac Okoro (2020). 

Chet Holmgren has an opportunity to develop into Gonzaga’s highest draft choose since Adam Morrison went third general in 2006, whereas Purdue’s Jaden Ivey will probably develop into the first Boilermaker taken in the lottery since Glenn Robinson was drafted first general in 1994.

5: The faculty route is not the just one that may carry a participant to the massive present. Five NBA G League Ignite gamers — MarJon Beauchamp, Dyson Daniels, Michael Foster Jr., Jaden Hardy and Fanbo Zeng — have an opportunity to be drafted.

There can also be a bevy of worldwide prospects, together with Hugo Besson (France), Dyson Daniels (Australia), Ousmane Dieng (France), Khalifa Diop (Senegal), Nikola Jović (Serbia), Ismael Kamagate (France) and Jean Montero (Dominican Republic).

11: At least 11 prospects have household ties in both the NBA or WNBA, together with:

— Purdue’s Jaden Ivey (mom Niele performed 5 seasons in the WNBA, was an assistant coach with the Grizzlies and now coaches Notre Dame‘s girls’s crew)

— Duke’s AJ Griffin (father Adrian is an assistant with Toronto, performed 9 NBA seasons)

— Duke’s Mark Williams (sister Elizabeth was a WNBA All-Star in 2017)

— Rutgers’ Ron Harper Jr. (father performed 15 seasons in the NBA, profitable 5 titles)

— Vanderbilt’s Scotty Pippen Jr. (father gained six titles with Chicago, member of NBA seventy fifth Anniversary Team)

— St. John’s’ Julian Champagnie (equivalent twin brother Justin performs for Toronto)