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Just thought I'd start a thread for the early entries into the draft

Sullinger has said he's coming back

UCLA's Tyler Honeycutt is entering the draft and hiring an agent

When is the deadline to announce by?

Dear mods,
Please change "Eartly" Entries to Early Entries. It's gonna bug the shit out of me if I have to look at it that way for the next 6 weeks.

wilson wrote:Dear mods,
Please change "Eartly" Entries to Early Entries. It's gonna bug the shit out of me if I have to look at it that way for the next 6 weeks.

My bad - I didn't see it before submitting. And then I was expected to do work rather then review my post during the edit period.

Iman Shumpert has declared, but hasn't hired an agent.

Jesus_hurley wrote:UCLA's Tyler Honeycutt is entering the draft and hiring an agent

Is he worried about having to share minutes with the Wear twins?

CameronBornAndBred wrote:When is the deadline to announce by?

April 24th is the last day to declare
April 29th is when NBA teams can start workouts with the players
May 8th is the deadline to return

A much shorter window this year then in previous years

Ashton Gibbs (Pitt). He's a junior so this makes a lot of sense no matter if he was going in the first round or not. Now he can go to workouts paid for by NBA teams and get an idea of anything he needs to work on if he chooses to return.

Jordan Williams is declaring but he will not hire an agent:

http://www.dukebasketballreport.com/articles/?p=39576

Barnes is returning. I was just forwarded this link by the enemy, backed by a Ram's Club members assurance that it was legit.

http://www.nbadraft.net/forum/harrison- ... 663d33%2C0

Regardless, GO TO HELL CAROLINA!!

robertduke32 wrote:Barnes is returning. I was just forwarded this link by the enemy, backed by a Ram's Club members assurance that it was legit.

http://www.nbadraft.net/forum/harrison- ... 663d33%2C0

Regardless, GO TO HELL CAROLINA!!

Interesting. And damn. Even though I wish he left (only for being a Duke fan), I do like that 2 high picks have elected to stay. There may be hope yet for college basketball.

I said this OY, but I'll say it here too... I wonder if the looming threat of an NBA lockout will make for one of the most talented pool of college players we've seen in years next season. Some players will undoubtedly wait it out to see how the chips fall. Hopefully Kyrie will be one of them.

Jesus_hurley wrote:

CameronBornAndBred wrote:When is the deadline to announce by?

April 24th is the last day to declare
April 29th is when NBA teams can start workouts with the players
May 8th is the deadline to return

A much shorter window this year then in previous years

On what date will they have a lockout?

Lavabe wrote:

Jesus_hurley wrote:

CameronBornAndBred wrote:When is the deadline to announce by?

April 24th is the last day to declare
April 29th is when NBA teams can start workouts with the players
May 8th is the deadline to return

A much shorter window this year then in previous years

On what date will they have a lockout?

It's either the last day of June or the first day of July. I forget which, but it's about a week after the draft.

I don't think the lockout will induce many kids to come back to school who otherwise would have left. Rather, I think it could have the opposite effect. The value of rookie contracts will decline under the next CBA, and even if they don't play a chunk of next season, the incoming rookie crop will be grandfathered into higher-value initial contracts than the 2012 class will get.

Yea, but they're saying that there WILL be a lockout in the NBA, and that it'll be longer than the NFL lockout, and that there is a decent chance they'll miss the whole season. If that's the case, then the players drafted this year wouldn't get their contracts until AFTER the new CBA goes into effect. If that happens, they'll be under the new rules anyway, and they'll have sat an entire year. At least that's what they're saying on the radio.

bjornolf wrote:Yea, but they're saying that there WILL be a lockout in the NBA, and that it'll be longer than the NFL lockout, and that there is a decent chance they'll miss the whole season. If that's the case, then the players drafted this year wouldn't get their contracts until AFTER the new CBA goes into effect. If that happens, they'll be under the new rules anyway, and they'll have sat an entire year. At least that's what they're saying on the radio.

No way those players will dig in and let an entire season be lost. I am also under the impression that players drafted this year will be grandfathered into the existing CBA, regardless of when they start playing. I'll have to do a bit of research on that.

wilson wrote:

bjornolf wrote:Yea, but they're saying that there WILL be a lockout in the NBA, and that it'll be longer than the NFL lockout, and that there is a decent chance they'll miss the whole season. If that's the case, then the players drafted this year wouldn't get their contracts until AFTER the new CBA goes into effect. If that happens, they'll be under the new rules anyway, and they'll have sat an entire year. At least that's what they're saying on the radio.

No way those players will dig in and let an entire season be lost. I am also under the impression that players drafted this year will be grandfathered into the existing CBA, regardless of when they start playing. I'll have to do a bit of research on that.

I think whether they are grandfathered in depends on what is negotiated into the CBA. From the comments OY, it appears that the current CBA doesn't specify they are grandfathered in under that CBA. Therefore, I think they come under whatever terms are put into the new CBA, which may be negotiated to give this year's draft the old rookie contract rules but it may be negotiated that they come under whatever the new rookie contract rules are. Seems to me that this year's rookie class could be up in the air at the time of the draft.

Zeller and Henson stay. (Barnes is still deciding.)

http://www.heraldsun.com/view/full_stor ... aking_news

North Carolina forwards John Henson and Tyler Zeller will return to college and play basketball for the Tar Heels in 2011-12.

Henson, a sophomore from Tampa, Fla., and Zeller, a junior from Washington, Ind., were each second-team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selections in 2011.

Freshman forward Harrison Barnes is still reviewing information about the possibility of declaring for the NBA Draft.