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:
“The hearing ear is always found close to the speaking tongue; and no genius can long or often utter anything which is not invited and gladly entertained by men around him.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)