College Basketball Reform

NOVEMBERFEBRUARYNOVEMBER 2018 2020 2018

PROCESSES AND TIMELINE Pathway to the END OF YOUR TEAM’S SEASON (INCLUDING POSTSEASON TOURNAMENT GAMES) AND NO LATER THAN 11:59 P.M. ET ON APRIL 16, 2020: SUBMIT A WRITTEN REQUEST FOR AN EVALUATION FROM THE NBA UNDERGRADUATE ADVISORY COMMITTEE

• On or around April 6, the NBA will begin To retain your NCAA eligibility to provide the initial round of written and to hire an NCAA-certified feedback to UAC applicants. The NBA agent, you must request an will continue to provide feedback to UAC evaluation from the NBA UAC. applicants on a rolling basis until the NBA’s early entry deadline on April 26 • Per NCAA rules, before entering the at 11:59 p.m. ET. The earliest applicants NBA Draft, you are required to request will be the first to receive feedback. an evaluation from the UAC. 2020 • Feedback will be based on the pro- • Submit written application after your fessional judgment of the UAC and team’s season ends and not later than highlight whether you are likely to be: 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on April 16. The earliest applicants will be the first - Drafted in the Lottery Draft to receive feedback. (i.e., pick Nos. 1-14); • The official UAC application forms will - Drafted in the First Round but outside be included in an educational brochure the Lottery (i.e., pick Nos. 15-30); about the UAC. The NBA will send the - Drafted in the first half of the Second UAC application forms to all NCAA Round; (i.e., pick Nos. 31-45) Division I head coaches in early - Drafted in the second half of the March 2020. Second Round (i.e., pick Nos. 46-60); • To request feedback from the or UAC, you must email a signed and - Not drafted. completed UAC application form to the NBA League Office. • You will also receive general, aggregated information on the range of teams’ Email: [email protected] assessment of your projected Draft status (i.e., the range of votes you Note: Requesting an received across each of the above- evaluation from the UAC referenced categories). does not automatically enter a student-athlete in the NBA Draft. • Additional requests for information, To declare for the Draft, a including the UAC application form, may student-athlete must file be sent via email to [email protected]. separate paperwork with the NBA. ncaa.org/commitment April 26 Beginning April 28 Beginning May 1, 2020 June 3, 2020 (11:59 p.m. ET) through the NCAA’s NBA SENDS DRAFT (11:59 p.m. ET) 2020 NBA DRAFT EARLY withdrawal deadline COMBINE INVITATIONS NCAA WITHDRAWAL DEADLINE ENTRY DEADLINE (i.e., June 3, 2020) • The NBA Draft Combine has expanded NOTE: This deadline applies to • Under NBA rules, if your intention is to EARLY ENTRANTS MAY to include the NBA G League Elite Camp, NCAA student-athletes interested in enter the 2020 NBA Draft as an early TRY OUT WITH NBA TEAMS which takes place just prior to the Combine retaining their collegiate eligibility. entrant, prior to April 26 at 11:59 p.m. at the same location in Chicago. • You may accept actual and • To maintain your NCAA eligibility, ET, you must submit a letter to the NBA necessary expenses from each • The NBA will send one of the following you must do the following: stating your desire to enter the Draft. professional team to participate in a communications: – Submit a written statement to the tryout that does not exceed 48 hours. (1) Draft Combine invitation (May 19-24); Note: Applying for a UAC NBA via email to DraftMailbox@ • Under NCAA rules, if you receive (2) Conditional Draft Combine invitation; or evaluation does not automat- nba.com, indicating the following: expenses from a professional team, ically enter you into the 2020 (3) G League Camp invitation (May – “I [student-athlete of NCAA there is a limit of one tryout per Draft. You must submit a sepa- 17-19); college/university] officially notify professional team per year. rate letter to the NBA to enter the (4) Letter of consideration/questionnaire for the NBA of my request to withdraw Draft as an early entrant. • You may not miss class, including the G League Camp (questionnaire is my name from consideration in the summer school, to attend a tryout NOT an invitation)*. 2020 NBA Draft.” • In your letter: (1) Identify your school with a professional team. • If you get an invitation, including to the AND (where you played during the 2019- G League Camp, you may work out with – Submit a written statement to 20 season); (2) Current year in school your coaches up to 20 hours per week your institution’s director of (e.g., freshman, sophomore or junior); from the date of receipt of invitation until athletics with your intent to resume (3) Date of birth; (4) Daytime phone you withdraw from the Draft or June 3, collegiate participation. number; and (5) Home address and whichever is earlier. – Both of the above actions must email address. • You may accept actual and necessary occur by June 3 at 11:59 p.m. ET. • Date and sign your letter. If your letter expenses from the NBA to participate in – Note that once you withdraw is not signed by hand or by electronic the Draft Combine or G League Camp. from the Draft, you may not be signature, such as DocuSign, it will not • You may miss class to participate in the selected in the Draft by an NBA be accepted. Draft Combine or G League Camp. team, provided that you have not • If you are not able to scan your letter, *Upon receipt of the letter of consideration/ previously withdrawn from the you may take a clear picture of the questionnaire, you are on notice that Draft more than twice. letter with your phone and attach it you are an alternate for the G League to your email. Camp with the potential to be invited to If, by this date, you do not participate in the camp if a spot opens. • Send your letter to declare for the Draft withdraw from the NBA Draft to Erika Ruiz at [email protected]. and submit your intent to resume • Once your letter has been received, the collegiate participation, your NCAA NBA will send an application to you. eligibility may be impacted. • You must promptly return the applica- tion and include a clear photocopy of June 25, 2020 your proof of date of birth (i.e., driver’s license, passport, birth certificate). NBA DRAFT IN NEW YORK, NY Please see ncaa.org for additional information regarding the 2020 NBA Draft If you have additional questions and the Combine, Agents and Workouts memorandum. regarding the Draft, contact Wesley Harris at [email protected]. ncaa.org/commitment