The deadline for early entrants to withdraw from the 2024 NBA draft passed on Sunday at 5:00 pm Eastern time, meaning that any players who haven’t removed their names from consideration at that point will remain in this year’s draft pool.
Because the NCAA has its own draft withdrawal deadline earlier in the spring, the NBA’s deadline typically represents decision day for non-college players, including international prospects. As we relayed on Sunday, several of those international early entrants who initially tested the draft waters decided to pull out before the deadline.
The following players also withdrew from the draft ahead of Sunday’s deadline:
- Mohamed Diawara, F, France (born 2005) (Twitter link via agent Olivier Mazet)
- Ruben Dominguez, G, Spain (born 2003) (Twitter link via Global Scouting)
- Noah Penda, G/F, France (born 2005) (Twitter link via Jon Chepkevich of DraftExpress)
Additionally, there were several reports on Sunday about international prospects who decided to keep their names in the draft pool. Here are those players:
- Melvin Ajinca, G/F, France (born 2004) (Twitter link via ESPN’s Jonathan Givony)
- Ulrich Chomche, C, NBA Academy Africa (born 2005) (Twitter link via Givony)
- Pacome Dadiet, G/F, Germany (born 2005) (Twitter link via Givony)
- Nikola Djurisic, G/F, Serbia (born 2004) (Twitter link via Givony)
- Quinn Ellis, G, Italy (born 2003) (Twitter link via Chepkevich)
- Juan Nunez, G, Germany (born 2004) (Twitter link via Givony)
- Babacar Sane, F, G League Ignite (born 2003) (Twitter link via Givony)
- Armel Traore, F, France (born 2003) (Twitter link via Givony)
There was no word on Sunday about several of the big-name international prospects, such as Alexandre Sarr, Zaccharie Risacher, and Tidjane Salaun, but there’s no doubt they kept their names in the draft, since they’re projected lottery picks. Nikola Topic is in that group as well, despite the fact that he recently suffered a partially torn ACL.
As our early entrant tracker shows, there are still a handful of prospects whose intentions haven’t been announced or reported, but it shouldn’t be long before we get clarity on them — the NBA will likely announce its official early entrant list for the 2024 draft at some point within the next 24 to 48 hours or so.
Why enter if you are not on the court to perfect yourself.I rather have steady career.
Ulrich Chomche reminds me alot of Clint Capela back when he was about to get drafted into the NBA. Chomche is a better shooter/ball-handler/passer & Clint was prob a lil more athletic. But both guys used great performances at the Nike Hoop Summit to propel them into 1st rd prospects. Clint obv should have been drafted higher than he ended up going & the same will be true with Chomche… link to m.youtube.com
A decade later & most of y’all are still sleeping on this guy. link to m.youtube.com
Sankara , interesting to watch Capela playing more freely in that video. Those snippets of fallaway middies and hopsteps into shovel passes make you wonder if his career would’ve gone differently if he’d started somewhere other than Houston.
His skillset was molded to fit those Harden teams but I think there could’ve been an alternate version of him that was more dynamic. At this point, he’s a finished product given his age and declining athleticism, but he certainly may have had potential for more.
I think Houston was the absolute perfect place for him & Atlanta has been the same, mainly bc of Harden & Trae. Like every NBA player he can handle/pass/shoot to at least some extent but any team that is depending on Clint to be a playmaker or a mid range shooter is prob gonna have the worst offense in the league. Clint has a nice hook & is a decent enough passer & often shows it when teams trap Trae. But as skilled as Clint is & has always been in those areas there’s almost always 4 guys on the court who you’d rather have handling the ball/playmaking/shooting compared to Clint. If he would got drafted to an expansion team that spent years trying to develop him into a more versatile offensive player I think it would been worse for his career than going to Houston turned out to be. Sorta similar to Chomche. Which is one of many reasons I got him going to OKC. Much like Capela to Houston it’s just a perfect fit