2026 NBA draft

2026 NBA draft
General information
Sport	Basketball
Date	June 23–24, 2026
Location	Barclays Center (Brooklyn, New York)
Networks	ESPN ABC (first round only)
Overview
60 total selections in 2 rounds
League	National Basketball Association
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The 2026 NBA draft will be the 80th edition of the National Basketball Association's annual draft. The first round of the draft will be held on June 23, and the second round on June 24.^[1]

Draft picks

PG

Point guard

SG

Shooting guard

SF

Small forward

PF

Power forward

C

Center

^#	Denotes player who has never appeared in an NBA regular-season or playoff game
^~	Denotes player who has been selected as Rookie of the Year

Rnd.	Pick	Player	Pos.	Nationality [n 1]	Team	School / club team
1	1
1	2
1	3
1	4
1	5
1	6
1	7
1	8
1	9
1	10
1	11
1	12
1	13
1	14
1	15				Chicago Bulls (from Portland)[A]
1	16				Memphis Grizzlies (from Phoenix via Orlando)
1	17				Oklahoma City Thunder (from Philadelphia)[B]
1	18				Charlotte Hornets (from Orlando via Phoenix)
1	19				Toronto Raptors
1	20				San Antonio Spurs (from Atlanta)
1	21				Detroit Pistons (from Minnesota)
1	22				Philadelphia 76ers (from Houston via Oklahoma City)[C]
1	23				Atlanta Hawks (from Cleveland)
1	24				New York Knicks
1	25				Los Angeles Lakers
1	26				Denver Nuggets
1	27				Boston Celtics
1	28				Minnesota Timberwolves (from Detroit)
1	29				Cleveland Cavaliers (from San Antonio via Atlanta)
1	30				Dallas Mavericks (from Oklahoma City via Washington and Philadelphia)
2	31				New York Knicks (from Washington via Oklahoma City and Houston)
2	32				Memphis Grizzlies (from Indiana via Milwaukee)
2	33				Brooklyn Nets
2	34
2	35
2	36				Los Angeles Clippers (from Memphis via Utah and Atlanta)
2	37
2	38
2	39				Houston Rockets (from Chicago via Washington)
2	40				Boston Celtics (from Milwaukee via Orlando)
2	41				Miami Heat (from Golden State via Charlotte, New York, Oklahoma City, and Atlanta)
2	42				San Antonio Spurs (from Portland via New Orleans)
2	43				Brooklyn Nets (from LA Clippers via Houston)
2	44				San Antonio Spurs (from Miami via Indiana)
2	45				Sacramento Kings (from Charlotte via San Antonio, Atlanta, and New York)[D]
2	46				Orlando Magic
2	47				Phoenix Suns (from Philadelphia via Houston and Oklahoma City)
2	48				Dallas Mavericks (from Phoenix via Washington)[E]
2	49				Denver Nuggets (from Atlanta via Brooklyn and Golden State)
2	50				Toronto Raptors
2	51				Washington Wizards (from Minnesota via Detroit and New York)
2	52				Los Angeles Clippers (from Cleveland)
2	53				Houston Rockets
2	54				Golden State Warriors (from LA Lakers via Toronto, Miami, and Cleveland)
2	55				New York Knicks
2	56				Chicago Bulls (from Denver via Minnesota, Phoenix, Charlotte, and Phoenix)
2	57				Atlanta Hawks (from Boston)
2	58				New Orleans Pelicans (from Detroit via New York, Brooklyn, Phoenix, Orlando, and the LA Clippers)
2	59				Minnesota Timberwolves (from San Antonio via Indiana)
2	60				Washington Wizards (from Oklahoma City via San Antonio and Miami)

1. Nationality indicates the player's national team or representative nationality. If a player has not competed at the international level, then the nationality indicates the national team which the player is eligible to represent according to FIBA rules.

Trades involving draft picks

Pre-draft trades

Prior to the draft, the following trades were made and resulted in exchanges of draft picks between teams:

1. August 28, 2021: Portland Trail Blazers to Chicago Bulls (three-team trade with Cleveland)^[2]
   • Portland acquired Larry Nance Jr.
   • Cleveland acquired Lauri Markkanen (sign-and-trade)
   • Chicago acquired Derrick Jones Jr., 2023 DEN protected second-round pick, and 2025 POR first-round pick
2. December 8, 2020: Philadelphia 76ers to Oklahoma City Thunder^[3]
   • Oklahoma City acquired Al Horford, rights to Théo Maledon (2020 No. 34), rights to Vasilije Micić (2014 No. 52), 2025 PHI protected first-round pick
   • Philadelphia acquired Terrance Ferguson, Danny Green, Vincent Poirier
3. July 16, 2019: Houston Rockets to Oklahoma City Thunder^[4]
   • Houston acquired Russell Westbrook
   • Oklahoma City acquired Chris Paul, 2021 limited right to swap first-round picks, 2024 HOU protected first-round pick, 2025 limited right to swap first-round picks, and 2026 HOU protected first-round pick
   February 4, 2026: Oklahoma City Thunder to Philadelphia 76ers^[5]
   • Oklahoma City acquired Jared McCain
   • Philadelphia acquired 2026 HOU first-round pick, 2027 second-round pick, 2028 MIL second-round pick, and 2028 OKC second-round pick
4. July 29, 2021: Charlotte Hornets to New York Knicks^[6]
   • Charlotte acquired Draft rights to Kai Jones
   • New York acquired 2026 CHA second-round pick
   January 13, 2022: New York Knicks to Atlanta Hawks^[7]
   • New York acquired Solomon Hill, Cam Reddish, 2025 BKN second-round pick, and cash considerations
   • Atlanta acquired Kevin Knox II and 2026 CHA second-round pick
   June 30, 2022: Atlanta Hawks to San Antonio Spurs^[8]
   • Atlanta acquired Dejounte Murray and Jock Landale
   • San Antonio acquired Danilo Gallinari, 2025 ATL first-round pick, 2026 right to swap first-round picks, 2026 CHA second-round pick, and 2027 ATL first-round pick
   February 3, 2025: San Antonio Spurs to Sacramento Kings (three-team trade with Chicago^[9]
   • San Antonio acquired De'Aaron Fox and Jordan McLaughlin
   • Chicago acquired Zach Collins, Kevin Huerter, and Tre Jones
   • Sacramento acquired Sidy Cissoko, Zach LaVine, 2025 CHI second-round pick, 2026 CHA second-round pick, 2027 SAS first-round pick, 2028 DEN protected second-round pick, 2028 SAC second-round pick, and 2031 MIN first-round pick
5. June 24, 2023: Phoenix Suns to Washington Wizards (three-team trade with Indiana)^[10]
   • Phoenix acquired Bradley Beal, Jordan Goodwin, and Isaiah Todd
   • Indiana acquired Draft rights to Jarace Walker, 2028 PHX second-round pick, and 2029 WAS second-round pick
   • Washington acquired Chris Paul, Landry Shamet, Draft rights to Bilal Coulibaly, 2024 protected right to swap first-round picks, 2024 PHX second-round pick, 2025 PHX second-round pick, 2026 right to swap first-round picks, 2026 PHX second-round pick, 2027 PHX second-round pick, 2028 right to swap first-round picks, 2030 right to swap first-round picks, 2030 PHX second-round pick, and Cash considerations
   February 5, 2026: Washington Wizards to Dallas Mavericks (three-team trade with Charlotte)^[11]
   • Washington acquired Anthony Davis, Danté Exum, Jaden Hardy, and D'Angelo Russell
   • Charlotte acquired Malaki Branham
   • Dallas acquired Marvin Bagley III, AJ Johnson, Tyus Jones, Khris Middleton, 2026 first-round pick, 2026 PHX second-round pick, 2027 CHI second-round pick, 2029 HOU second-round pick, and 2030 GSW protected first-round pick

Combine

The 12th G League Elite Camp will take place on May 8–10, from which certain participants were selected to join the main draft combine.^[12]

The primary portion of the 2026 NBA draft combine will be held from May 10–17 in Chicago, Illinois.^[12]

Draft lottery

The NBA draft lottery will be held on May 10.

Denotes the actual lottery result

Team	2025–26 record	Lottery chances	Lottery probabilities
			1st	2nd	3rd	4th	5th	6th	7th	8th	9th	10th	11th	12th	13th	14th
Washington Wizards	17–65	140	14.0%	13.4%	12.7%	12.0%	47.9%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Indiana Pacers[a]	19–63	140	14.0%	13.4%	12.7%	12.0%	27.8%	20.1%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Brooklyn Nets	20–62	140	14.0%	13.4%	12.7%	12.0%	14.8%	26.0%	7.0%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
Utah Jazz	22–60	115	11.5%	11.4%	11.2%	11.0%	7.5%	27.1%	17.9%	2.4%	–	–	–	–	–	–
Sacramento Kings	22–60	115	11.5%	11.4%	11.2%	11.0%	2.0%	18.2%	25.5%	8.6%	0.6%	–	–	–	–	–
Memphis Grizzlies	25–57	90	9.0%	9.2%	9.4%	9.6%	–	8.6%	29.7%	20.6%	3.7%	0.2%	–	–	–	–
New Orleans Pelicans (to Atlanta)[b]	26–56	68	6.8%	7.1%	7.5%	7.9%	–	–	19.8%	35.6%	13.8%	1.4%	<0.1%	–	–	–
Dallas Mavericks	26–56	67	6.7%	7.0%	7.4%	7.8%	–	–	–	32.9%	31.1%	6.6%	0.4%	<0.1%	–	–
Chicago Bulls	31–51	45	4.5%	4.8%	5.2%	5.7%	–	–	–	–	50.8%	25.9%	3.0%	0.1%	<0.1%	–
Milwaukee Bucks[c]	32–50	30	3.0%	3.3%	3.6%	4.0%	–	–	–	–	–	65.9%	19.0%	1.2%	<0.1%	<0.1%
Golden State Warriors	37–45	20	2.0%	2.2%	2.4%	2.8%	–	–	–	–	–	–	77.6%	12.6%	0.4%	<0.1%
Los Angeles Clippers (to Oklahoma City)	42–40	15	1.5%	1.7%	1.9%	2.1%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	86.1%	6.7%	0.1%
Miami Heat	43–39	10	1.0%	1.1%	1.2%	1.4%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	92.9%	2.3%
Charlotte Hornets	44–38	5	0.5%	0.6%	0.6%	0.7%	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	97.6%

Eligibility and entrants

Main article: Eligibility for the NBA draft

The draft is conducted under the eligibility rules established in the league's 2023 collective bargaining agreement (CBA) with its players' union.

• All drafted players must be at least 19 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In terms of dates, players who were eligible for the 2026 NBA draft must have been born on or before December 31, 2007.
• Since the 2016 draft, the following rules are, as implemented by the NCAA Division I council for that division:^[13]
  • Declaration for the draft no longer results in automatic loss of college eligibility. As long as a player does not sign a contract with a professional team outside the NBA or sign with an agent, he retains college eligibility as long as he makes a timely withdrawal from the draft.
  • NCAA players now have 10 days after the end of the NBA draft combine to withdraw from the draft. Since the combine is normally held in mid-May, the current deadline is about five weeks after the previous mid-April deadline.
  • NCAA players may participate in the draft combine and are allowed to attend one tryout per year with each NBA team without losing college eligibility.
  • NCAA players may now enter and withdraw from the draft up to two times without loss of eligibility. Previously, the NCAA treated a second declaration of draft eligibility as a permanent loss of college eligibility.

Early entrants

Players who were not automatically eligible had to declare their eligibility for the draft by notifying the NBA offices in writing no later than at least 60 days before the event. For the 2026 draft, the date falls on April 24. Under the CBA a player may withdraw his name from consideration from the draft at any time before the final declaration deadline, which usually falls 10 days before the draft at 5:00 p.m. EDT (2100 UTC). Under current NCAA rules, players usually have until 10 days after the draft combine to withdraw from the draft and retain college eligibility.

A player who has hired an agent for purposes of negotiating with professional teams^[d] retains his remaining college eligibility regardless of whether he is drafted after an evaluation from the NBA Undergraduate Advisory Committee. Players who declare for the NBA draft and are not selected have the opportunity to return to their school for at least another year only after terminating all agreements with their agents,^[e] who must have been certified.^[14]

College underclassmen

• Flory Bidunga – F, Kansas (sophomore)^[15]
• Mikel Brown Jr. – G, Louisville (freshman)^[16]
• Cameron Carr – G, Baylor (freshman)^[17]
• Chris Cenac Jr. – F/C, Houston (freshman)^[18]
• Kingston Flemings – G, Houston (freshman)^[19]
• Allen Graves – F, Santa Clara (freshman)^[20]
• Labaron Philon Jr – G, Alabama (sophomore)^[21]
• Jayden Quaintance – F, Kentucky (sophomore)^[22]
• Hannes Steinbach – F, Washington (freshman)^[23]
• Dailyn Swain – F, Texas (junior)^[24]
• Keaton Wagler – G, Illinois (freshman)^[25]
• Caleb Wilson – F, UNC (freshman)^[26]
• Tounde Yessoufou – F, Baylor (freshman)^[27]

International players

• Karim López – F, New Zealand Breakers (Australia)^[28]

Automatically eligible entrants

Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They have no remaining college eligibility.
• If they graduated from high school in the U.S., but did not enroll in a U.S. college or university, four years have passed since their high school class graduated.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA, anywhere in the world, and have played under the contract.

Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:

• They are at least 22 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In term of dates players born on or before December 31, 2004, are automatically eligible for the 2026 draft.
• They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA within the United States, and have played under that contract.

Notes

1. The L.A. Clippers will receive the pick if it is between 5–9 (or in this case, if it is either pick 5 or 6), otherwise Indiana will retain it.
2. As part of a pick swap, Atlanta will receive the most favorable of this pick and Milwaukee's pick.
3. As part of a pick swap, Milwaukee will receive the least favorable of this pick and the Atlanta's pick.
4. Due to changes in rules regarding student athlete compensation in the 2020s, players can hire agents to manage appearances and endorsements while retaining college athletic eligibility.
5. Specifically agents hired to negotiate with professional teams. Relationships with agents hired for other purposes are not affected.

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