Full list of Orlando participants

Tuesday, May 27, 2008 | Print Entry

Here is the full list of the 64 participants in the NBA's pre-draft camp from Tuesday through Friday in Orlando, Fla.:

Ramel Bradley, Sr., Kentucky
Tyrone Brazelton, Sr., Western Kentucky
Takais Brown, Torpan Pojat, Helsinki, Finland
Keith Brumbaugh, Hillsborough CC, Florida
Stanley Burrell, Sr., Xavier
Brian Butch, Sr., Wisconsin
Jamar Butler, Sr., Ohio State
Pat Calathes, Sr., Saint Joseph's
Joe Crawford, Sr., Kentucky
Chris Daniels, Sr., Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
Joey Dorsey, Sr., Memphis
Marcus Dove, Sr., Oklahoma State
Josh Duncan, Sr., Xavier
Frank Elegar, Sr., Drexel
Wayne Ellington, Soph., North Carolina
Patrick Ewing Jr., Sr., Georgetown
Gary Forbes, Sr., UMass
Shan Foster, Sr., Vanderbilt
J.R. Giddens, Sr., New Mexico
James Gist, Sr., Maryland
Vladimir Gulubovic, Vojvodina, Serbia
Kentrell Gransberry, Sr., South Florida
Danny Green, Jr., North Carolina
Malik Hairston, Sr., Oregon
DeVon Hardin, Sr., Cal
Richard Hendrix, Jr., Alabama
George Hill, Jr., IUPUI
Kyle Hines, Sr., UNC-Greensboro
Jiri Hubalek, Sr., Iowa State
Lester Hudson, Jr., Tennessee-Martin
Othello Hunter, Sr., Ohio State
Darnell Jackson, Sr., Kansas
Shawn James, Jr., Duquesne
Davon Jefferson, Fr., USC
Joseph Jones, Sr., Texas A&M
Sasha Kaun, Sr., Kansas
Marcelus Kemp, Sr., Nevada
Ty Lawson, Soph., North Carolina
Maarty Leunen, Sr., Oregon
Longar Longar, Sr., Oklahoma
Aleks Maric, Sr., Nebraska
James Mays, Sr., Clemson
Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Jr., UCLA
Drew Neitzel, Sr., Michigan State
DeMarcus Nelson, Sr., Duke
David Padgett, Sr., Louisville
Jeremy Pargo, Jr., Gonzaga
Trent Plaisted, Jr., BYU
Quan Prowell, Sr., Auburn
Shaun Pruitt, Sr., Illinois
Charles Rhodes, Sr., Mississippi State
John Riek, IMG Academy, Florida
Brian Roberts, Sr., Dayton
Russell Robinson, Sr., Kansas
Richard Roby, Sr., Colorado
Sean Singletary, Sr., Virginia
Ronald Steele, RS-Sr., Alabama
Bryce Taylor, Sr., Oregon
Mike Taylor, Idaho D-League
Mark Tyndale, Sr., Temple
Robert Vaden, Jr., UAB
Deron Washington, Sr., Virginia Tech
Sonny Weems, Sr., Arkansas
Reggie Williams, Sr., VMI

• Skills, strength, agility and medical testing only (15 players):

Joe Alexander, Jr., West Virginia
Darrell Arthur, Soph., Kansas
D.J. Augustin, Soph., Texas
Jerryd Bayless, Fr., Arizona
Michael Beasley, Fr., Kansas State
Eric Gordon, Fr., Indiana
Donte Greene, Fr., Syracuse
DeAndre Jordan, Fr., Texas A&M
Brook Lopez, Soph., Stanford
Kevin Love, Fr., UCLA
O.J. Mayo, Fr., USC
JaVale McGee, Soph., Nevada
Anthony Randolph, Fr., LSU
Derrick Rose, Fr., Memphis
Russell Westbrook, Soph., UCLA

This is the first year the committee didn't subjectively select players for the camp or for the physical-only portion. The NBA polled the teams with a secret ballot and kept the results private until late Sunday night. The committee pushed the physical-only list to 20 players in years past. But this year, the NBA was adamant that it was going with only the top 15 vote getters.

This doesn't mean the lottery is set with the aforementioned 15 players. Italian Danilo Gallinari is sure to be in the top 14.

Still, Alexander (West Virginia) and Greene (Syracuse) being voted into the top 15 means they can safely project they will be selected high enough to stay in the draft. So far, neither has given up his amateur status by signing with an agent. But if Alexander and Greene are making their decisions based on this list, West Virginia and Syracuse can start planning on not having them next season.

Arthur (Kansas), Love (UCLA) and Westbrook (UCLA) also haven't signed with agents. But that is merely a technicality. They all are likely to stay in the draft and go in the top 12.

By far the biggest surprise is the willingness of some high-profile underclassmen to participate in the camp, notably the trio from North Carolina.

Sophomores Ellington and Lawson aren't locks for the first round, so they decided to participate and try to play their ways in. Neither has signed with an agent, and this clearly is an attempt to prove they are first-round worthy and should stay in the draft. Teammate Green also decided to play, a necessity if he wants to get into the second round and not return to school.

UCLA's Mbah a Moute is another name underclassman willing to participate. He easily could play himself into the second round with a strong performance and decide not to return to school. Gonzaga junior point Pargo, brother of New Orleans guard Jannero Pargo, is playing in the hope that he can crack the first round, if not get some sort of guarantee for the second round.

Alabama's Steele and Hendrix have different agendas. Steele is trying to prove he is healthy after sitting out the season with a knee injury, while Hendrix has a legit shot to convince NBA teams he should be selected high enough that he should stay in the draft.

UAB's Vaden, Tennessee-Martin's Hudson and IUPUI's Hill all are prolific scorers who could play their ways to higher in the second round. If they receive some sort of guarantees, they might choose to stay in the draft, too.

Every year, there are a few surprise participants but usually even more intriguing omissions.

Underclassmen who haven't signed with an agent and aren't playing or on the physical-only list are: Kansas junior Mario Chalmers, Kansas State redshirt freshman Bill Walker, Florida sophomore Marreese Speights, Cal sophomore Ryan Anderson, NC State freshman J.J. Hickson, Arizona sophomore Chase Budinger, Mississippi State junior Jamont Gordon, BYU junior Lee Cummard and Texas junior A.J. Abrams.

The NBA didn't offer specific reasons why certain players won't play. The most likely scenario for this crew is that a number of them declined invitations. It's possible the last few were not invited. It's hard to project what these nine players are going to do, but the decisions not to play by Walker, Chalmers, Speights, Hickson and Budinger can't be good signs they will go back to college.

The one underclassman who did sign with an agent and isn't playing is Robin Lopez, a sophomore from Stanford.

There are four players who signed with agents and are playing: USC freshman Jefferson, BYU junior Plaisted, post-grad high school student Riek out of IMG Academy in Florida and Duquesne junior James. The most significant senior who isn't playing is Georgetown center Roy Hibbert. Notable underclassmen who will go in the first round but won't be in Orlando are Memphis junior Chris Douglas-Roberts and Ohio State freshman Kosta Koufos.

Players arrived in Orlando on Monday and will participate in drill and scrimmage work Tuesday before playing a game a day Wednesday through Friday. There will be 16 days after the camp concludes for the underclassmen who have not signed with agents to decide whether they are going to stay in the draft.

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