How do they choose who takes part in the draft in NBA?
358249
Scouts for each team look at college players and the best ones go to the draft. Some may not get chosen though
889211
You pick players at the beginning of the season and what they score is how your team does...\n\nGood Luck
983493
You click on the position and bench someone not playing that night then click on the player you want to play and put him in.\n\nSome guys can be more than 1 position, like C and LW, or LW and RW.\n\nTry to fill all positions the best you can every night.
1041542
If you have a TV and can get cable, it's going to run live in New York at 7ET/4P on ESPN this Wednesday. Otherwise, you can only get up-to-date draft board on draft day on various sport news website, such as ESPN, CBS Sportsline, Fox Sports, and NBA.com. ESPN will have a Sportsnation chat with the fellow draftee and their new NBA team, so you can have the opportunity to talk to the players right after their drafted, depending on which players are available.
359461
:} follow the bucks\n\nIt's called recruitment
958273
Players are usually announced by their alma matas due to the popularity of college basketball. Like most other professional sports, players are drafted into the pros. To answer the question of why international players are announced by the country they are from is because technically international players are drafted from the national team they played for which is usually their country. (i.e. Yao Ming from China, Peja Stoyokavich from Serbia Montenegro). The last place they played before they became pro would be their alma mata (or what is announced). For example Dikembe Mutumbo is of African descent. However, he was recruited by Georgetown University, hence when his name was announced, he was named as a Georgetown player, not Dikembe Mutumbo from Africa.
676918
It goes like this:  The teams that don't make the playoffs are considered a "lottery" team, which means they will have the best picks in the upcoming draft.  Some "lottery" teams however, have traded there draft picks for other players and are not part of the "lottery" (Knicks traded there 1st round pick to the Bulls for Eddie Curry).  \nAs for the picks themselves, the NBA uses a ping pong ball system.  The team that has the worst record will get the most amount of balls, the second worst gets the second most and so on, think KENO.  The balls are then chosen randomally to determine who picks first, second, etc. etc.  So even though the team with the worst record has more ping pong balls in the bowl, it doesn't necessarily mean they will choose first, they just have the best CHANCE.  This year Toronto got the first pick, but they did not have the worst record.
579303
I don't know about draft picks but I've believed that many NBA games are fixed for quite some time now and this year's playoffs are a good example.  The Lakers had no business taking the Suns to 7 just as the Cavs shouldn't have taken the Pistons to 7 (Don't get me wrong, I love the Cavs, but no talent outside of the King).  Who is on those teams?  Arguably the most engaging personality off the court (Kobe) and the most exciting player to watch on the court (LeBron).  those two guys = ratings = higher revenues for the NBA
167125
It seems to me that your team has NOT been picked yet. Are you in an Autopick league or a Live Draft League ???? Your players will show up after the draft has been completed...
517264
When a team drafts a player they have the rights to him for like two or three years I believe. Anyway the number of years isn't totally important to the question. If they are an unsigned pick that means that the team drafted them but hasn't managed to negotiate a contract. They have to either sign with that team or after those couple of years they will go back into the draft. Well either that or they can skip the draft and not enter the NHL basically.
909391
This is a really good question.  It took some research, but here is the answer: \n\nThe starting lineups for each team are listed first in the following order by position: forward, forward, center, guard, and guard.\n\nPLAYER    POS\nANDERSON   F\nMASSENBURG F\nTABAK      C\nROBERTSON  G\nSTOUDAMIRE G\n\nSubstitute players are listed in the order in which they enter the game. Players who do not play in the game are not listed. (Some box scores list a DNP to the right of a player's name to indicate that he did not play.) \n\nCheck out the attached link from nba.com =)
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It may be that the entire league isn't ready.  A similar thing happened to me in a head-to-head league, and it turned out that there were an uneven number of teams in the league, and Yahoo wouldn't begin the draft.\n\nBut other than that I can't help you, sorry.
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Here is everything about it, including a countdown.\nhttp://www.nbadraft.net/
221283
You have to be really really good, like in the top 55 out of 3000+ college players. The nba scouts from the nba teams have to identify you as a highly potentialled player that can help their team and you have to be picked in the first round of the NBA draft to have a garenteed contract and getting picked in the second round justs means that you made the NBA, but you may get released or assigned to the D-League. P.S- The minimum salary for a NBA player is around $387,000.
945079
A select group of sports writers cast their ballots for thier pick 1st-10th.  Each ranked vote is worth a certain amount of point.  The player with the most points gets MVP.
756763
if you dont know,  why would you join a team?  anyway,  there are far too many rules to sit here and list them all.  do a web search or go to wikipedia on the rules of basketball.  this is too detailed for answers.  good luck!
818325
yahoo doesnt, but the manager who created the leauge can write down who had who and the next year can invite al the same people into the league and do an offline draft or regular draft and get the same people.