Invited Attendees
The NBA annually invites 10 or 15 players to sit in the so-called "green room", a special room set aside at the draft site for the invited players plus their families and agents. This season, the following players were invited (listed alphabetically):
- Bismack Biyombo, Baloncesto Fuenlabrada (not on the original list; added later)
- Alec Burks, Colorado
- Jimmer Fredette, Brigham Young
- Kyrie Irving, Duke
- Enes Kanter, Kentucky
- Brandon Knight, Kentucky
- Kawhi Leonard, San Diego State
- Marcus Morris, Kansas
- Markieff Morris, Kansas (not on the original list; added later)
- Donatas Motiejūnas, Benetton Treviso
- Chris Singleton, Florida State
- Klay Thompson, Washington State
- Tristan Thompson, Texas
- Jonas Valančiūnas, Lietuvos Rytas
- Jan Veselý, Partizan Belgrade
- Kemba Walker, Connecticut
- Derrick Williams, Arizona
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Famous quotes containing the word invited:
“We pray to be conventional. But the wary Heaven takes care you shall not be, if there is anything good in you. Dante was very bad company, and was never invited to dinner.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)