<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">The invitation-only camp is the lone predraft gathering that includes early-entry candidates, of which there are 108 this year: 61 college underclassmen, 12 high schoolers and 35 Europeans. The setup makes it easy to track players. Individual statistics and team win-loss records are kept daily. Good performances can propel a player on the bubble into a second-round lock, or a projected second-rounder into the first round, where the guaranteed contracts are. Spurs rookie Beno Udrih is the best recent example of how much a player's stock can rise. Udrih parlayed a strong predraft camp and follow-up workouts into a first-round selection (No. 28 overall) by San Antonio last summer. The Slovenian guard has become an important backup for the Western Conference champions, averaging 12.3 minutes per game in the playoffs. Other big leapers from recent drafts include Knicks guard Jamal Crawford, who skyrocketed to the eighth spot in 2000, and Suns center Steven Hunter, the 15th selection a year later. On the local front, former San Jose State swingman Tariq Abdul-Wahad used strong workouts to rate a No. 11 pick by Sacramento in 1997.</div> Source
