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.