Just Released: Full List of Orlando Participants

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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE </div><div class='quotemain'>Here is the full list of the 64 participants in the NBA's pre-draft camp from Tuesday through Friday in Orlando, Fla.:

    Ramel Bradley, Sr., Kentucky
    Tyrone Brazelton, Sr., Western Kentucky
    Takais Brown, Torpan Pojat, Helsinki, Finland
    Keith Brumbaugh, Hillsborough CC, Florida
    Stanley Burrell, Sr., Xavier
    Brian Butch, Sr., Wisconsin
    Jamar Butler, Sr., Ohio State
    Pat Calathes, Sr., Saint Joseph's
    Joe Crawford, Sr., Kentucky
    Chris Daniels, Sr., Texas A&M-Corpus Christi
    Joey Dorsey, Sr., Memphis
    Marcus Dove, Sr., Oklahoma State
    Josh Duncan, Sr., Xavier
    Frank Elegar, Sr., Drexel
    Wayne Ellington, Soph., North Carolina
    Patrick Ewing Jr., Sr., Georgetown
    Gary Forbes, Sr., UMass
    Shan Foster, Sr., Vanderbilt
    J.R. Giddens, Sr., New Mexico
    James Gist, Sr., Maryland
    Vladimir Gulubovic, Vojvodina, Serbia
    Kentrell Gransberry, Sr., South Florida
    Danny Green, Jr., North Carolina
    Malik Hairston, Sr., Oregon
    DeVon Hardin, Sr., Cal
    Richard Hendrix, Jr., Alabama
    George Hill, Jr., IUPUI
    Kyle Hines, Sr., UNC-Greensboro
    Jiri Hubalek, Sr., Iowa State
    Lester Hudson, Jr., Tennessee-Martin
    Othello Hunter, Sr., Ohio State
    Darnell Jackson, Sr., Kansas
    Shawn James, Jr., Duquesne
    Davon Jefferson, Fr., USC
    Joseph Jones, Sr., Texas A&M
    Sasha Kaun, Sr., Kansas
    Marcelus Kemp, Sr., Nevada
    Ty Lawson, Soph., North Carolina
    Maarty Leunen, Sr., Oregon
    Longar Longar, Sr., Oklahoma
    Aleks Maric, Sr., Nebraska
    James Mays, Sr., Clemson
    Luc Richard Mbah a Moute, Jr., UCLA
    Drew Neitzel, Sr., Michigan State
    DeMarcus Nelson, Sr., Duke
    David Padgett, Sr., Louisville
    Jeremy Pargo, Jr., Gonzaga
    Trent Plaisted, Jr., BYU
    Quan Prowell, Sr., Auburn
    Shaun Pruitt, Sr., Illinois
    Charles Rhodes, Sr., Mississippi State
    John Riek, IMG Academy, Florida
    Brian Roberts, Sr., Dayton
    Russell Robinson, Sr., Kansas
    Richard Roby, Sr., Colorado
    Sean Singletary, Sr., Virginia
    Ronald Steele, RS-Sr., Alabama
    Bryce Taylor, Sr., Oregon
    Mike Taylor, Idaho D-League
    Mark Tyndale, Sr., Temple
    Robert Vaden, Jr., UAB
    Deron Washington, Sr., Virginia Tech
    Sonny Weems, Sr., Arkansas
    Reggie Williams, Sr., VMI


    • Skills, strength, agility and medical testing only (15 players):


    Joe Alexander, Jr., West Virginia
    Darrell Arthur, Soph., Kansas
    D.J. Augustin, Soph., Texas
    Jerryd Bayless, Fr., Arizona
    Michael Beasley, Fr., Kansas State
    Eric Gordon, Fr., Indiana
    Donte Greene, Fr., Syracuse
    DeAndre Jordan, Fr., Texas A&M
    Brook Lopez, Soph., Stanford
    Kevin Love, Fr., UCLA
    O.J. Mayo, Fr., USC
    JaVale McGee, Soph., Nevada
    Anthony Randolph, Fr., LSU
    Derrick Rose, Fr., Memphis
    Russell Westbrook, Soph., UCLA



    This is the first year the committee didn't subjectively select players for the camp or for the physical-only portion. The NBA polled the teams with a secret ballot and kept the results private until late Sunday night. The committee pushed the physical-only list to 20 players in years past. But this year, the NBA was adamant that it was going with only the top 15 vote getters.


    This doesn't mean the lottery is set with the aforementioned 15 players. Italian Danilo Gallinari is sure to be in the top 14.



    Still, Alexander (West Virginia) and Greene (Syracuse) being voted into the top 15 means they can safely project they will be selected high enough to stay in the draft. So far, neither has given up his amateur status by signing with an agent. But if Alexander and Greene are making their decisions based on this list, West Virginia and Syracuse can start planning on not having them next season.



    Arthur (Kansas), Love (UCLA) and Westbrook (UCLA) also haven't signed with agents. But that is merely a technicality. They all are likely to stay in the draft and go in the top 12.



    By far the biggest surprise is the willingness of some high-profile underclassmen to participate in the camp, notably the trio from North Carolina.



    Sophomores Ellington and Lawson aren't locks for the first round, so they decided to participate and try to play their ways in. Neither has signed with an agent, and this clearly is an attempt to prove they are first-round worthy and should stay in the draft. Teammate Green also decided to play, a necessity if he wants to get into the second round and not return to school.



    UCLA's Mbah a Moute is another name underclassman willing to participate. He easily could play himself into the second round with a strong performance and decide not to return to school. Gonzaga junior point Pargo, brother of New Orleans guard Jannero Pargo, is playing in the hope that he can crack the first round, if not get some sort of guarantee for the second round.



    Alabama's Steele and Hendrix have different agendas. Steele is trying to prove he is healthy after sitting out the season with a knee injury, while Hendrix has a legit shot to convince NBA teams he should be selected high enough that he should stay in the draft.



    UAB's Vaden, Tennessee-Martin's Hudson and IUPUI's Hill all are prolific scorers who could play their ways to higher in the second round. If they receive some sort of guarantees, they might choose to stay in the draft, too.



    Every year, there are a few surprise participants but usually even more intriguing omissions.



    Underclassmen who haven't signed with an agent and aren't playing or on the physical-only list are: Kansas junior Mario Chalmers, Kansas State redshirt freshman Bill Walker, Florida sophomore Marreese Speights, Cal sophomore Ryan Anderson, NC State freshman J.J. Hickson, Arizona sophomore Chase Budinger, Mississippi State junior Jamont Gordon, BYU junior Lee Cummard and Texas junior A.J. Abrams.


    The NBA didn't offer specific reasons why certain players won't play. The most likely scenario for this crew is that a number of them declined invitations. It's possible the last few were not invited. It's hard to project what these nine players are going to do, but the decisions not to play by Walker, Chalmers, Speights, Hickson and Budinger can't be good signs they will go back to college.



    The one underclassman who did sign with an agent and isn't playing is Robin Lopez, a sophomore from Stanford.



    There are four players who signed with agents and are playing: USC freshman Jefferson, BYU junior Plaisted, post-grad high school student Riek out of IMG Academy in Florida and Duquesne junior James. The most significant senior who isn't playing is Georgetown center Roy Hibbert. Notable underclassmen who will go in the first round but won't be in Orlando are Memphis junior Chris Douglas-Roberts and Ohio State freshman Kosta Koufos.



    Players arrived in Orlando on Monday and will participate in drill and scrimmage work Tuesday before playing a game a day Wednesday through Friday. There will be 16 days after the camp concludes for the underclassmen who have not signed with agents to decide whether they are going to stay in the draft.</div>
     

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