Santa Clara forward Allen Graves, Texas guard Dailyn Swain, Duke wing Isaiah Evans, and Stanford guard Ebuka Okorie have been invited by the NBA to be in the green room for next week’s draft, reports Jeremy Woo of ESPN (Twitter link).
It’s the third round of green room invitations sent out by the league. The NBA initially invited 14 players, then added another six players to that list, so the latest update brings the total number of invitees to 24, which is the same number of prospects invited to the green room for the 2025 draft.
That means unless one of these 24 declines his invitation, we likely know now the full list of players will be in the green room next Tuesday in Brooklyn. Here are all the prospects reported to have earned invitations, along with their rank on Woo’s ESPN big board:
- AJ Dybantsa (BYU)
- Darryn Peterson (Kansas)
- Cameron Boozer (Duke)
- Caleb Wilson (UNC)
- Keaton Wagler (Illinois)
- Darius Acuff (Arkansas)
- Mikel Brown (Louisville)
- Kingston Flemings (Houston)
- Nate Ament (Tennessee)
- Aday Mara (Michigan)
- Brayden Burries (Arizona)
- Yaxel Lendeborg (Michigan)
- Karim Lopez (Mexico)
- Morez Johnson (Michigan)
- Hannes Steinbach (Washington)
- Labaron Philon (Alabama)
- Allen Graves (Santa Clara)
- Christian Anderson (Texas Tech)
- Bennett Stirtz (Iowa)
- Cameron Carr (Baylor)
- Chris Cenac (Houston)
- Dailyn Swain (Texas)
- Isaiah Evans (Duke)
- Ebuka Okorie (Stanford)
The NBA determines which prospects to invite to the green room after asking teams to vote on which 25 players they expect to come off the board first. The goal is to avoid a situation in which a player doesn’t hear his name called on the first day of the draft. Of course, it’s possible that will still happen, but in 2025, all 24 players invited to the green room were drafted in the first round.
The other prospects in the top 30 on ESPN’s board who aren’t among this year’s green room invitees at this point are Kentucky big man Jayden Quaintance (No. 22), Arizona forward Koa Peat (No. 25), Arkansas guard Meleek Thomas (No. 26), UNC center Henri Veesaar (No. 28), St. John’s forward Zuby Ejiofor (No. 29), and UConn forward Alex Karaban (No. 30).
