USA – Long list of international hopefuls for draft

NEW YORK (NBA) - Numerous youngsters who play professional basketball outside the United States have made themselves available for the NBA draft that will take place at Madison Square Garden in New York on June 25.

Danilo Gallinari of Italy was the sixth pick overall in last year’s draft and this summer, Spain point guard Ricky Rubio is expected to be among the top five players selected and could go as high as number two overall.

The 18-year-old is currently getting ready for the ACB play-offs with DKV Joventut in Spain's ACB and should appear with his country at the EuroBasket in Poland later this year.

Serbia's Milan Macvan and Greece's Nikos Pappas, who led the world select team to victory at the Nike Challenge in Portland last month, have declared.

Maccabi Tel Aviv's Omri Casspi, Montenegro's Vladimir Dasic, Ukraine's Sergey Gladyr, Spain's Victor Claver and Cholet Frenchman Rodrigue Beaubois are other emerging stars who have put their names forward.

American-born Nick Calathes played for Greece last summer at the U20 European Championship and he has declared despite having two more years of eligibility with the Florida Gators.

Calathes is not hiring an agent and can withdraw by June 15.

Amadou Aboubakar Zaki / Nancy (France) / 7-1 / 1988 DOB
Rodrigue Beaubois / Cholet (France) / 6-0 / 1988 DOB
Nemanja Bjelica / Crvena Zvezda (Serbia) / 6-10 / 1988 DOB
Georgios Bogris / Ilysiakos (Greece) / 6-10 / 1989 DOB
Omri Casspi / Maccabi Elite (Israel) / 6-9 / 1988 DOB
Victor Claver / Pamesa Valencia (Spain) 6-9 / 1988 DOB
Vladimir Dasic / Buducnost (Montenegro) 6-10 / 1988 DOB
Christian Eyenga / DKV Joventut (Spain) / 6-5 / 1989 DOB
Vitor Faverani / Unicaja Malaga (Spain) / 6-10 / 1988 DOB
Sergey Gladyr / Mykolaiv (Ukraine) / 6-5 / 1989 DOB
Adam Hanga / Albacomp (Hungary) / 6-7 / 1989 DOB
Baris Hersek / Efes Pilsen (Turkey) / 6-9 / 1988 DOB
Rudy Jomby / Le Havre (France) / 6-6 / 1988 DOB
Tanel Kurbas / Kalev/Cramo (Estonia) / 6-6 / 1988 DOB
Milan Macvan / Hemofarm (Serbia) 6-9 / 1989 DOB
Boban Marjanovic / Hemofarm (Serbia) 7-4 / 1988 DOB
Tim Ohlbrecht / Bamberg (Germany) / 6-11 / 1988 DOB
Carl Ona Embo / Biella (Italy) / 6-1 / 1989 DOB
Nikolaos Pappas / Real Madrid II (Spain) / 6-5 / 1990 DOB
Anton Ponomarev / Astana Tigers (Kazakhstan) / 6-10 / 1988 DOB
Paulo Prestes / Unicaja Malaga (Spain) / 6-11 / 1988 DOB
Miroslav Raduljica / FMP Zeleznik (Serbia) / 7-0 / 1988 DOB
Fernando Raposo / Pau Orthez (France) / 6-9 / 1989 DOB
Ricky Rubio / DKV Joventut (Spain) / 6-4 / 1990 DOB
Evangelos Sakellariou / Pagrati (Greece) / 6-5 / 1989 DOB
Alexandros Sigkounas / Olimpia Larissa (Greece) / 6-7 / 1988 DOB
Ludovic Vaty / Pau Orthez (France) / 6-9 / 1988 DOB
Ibrahim Yildirim / Banvit (Turkey) / 6-3 / 1990 DOB
Artem Zabelin / CSKA Moscow (Russia) / 7-1 / 1988 DOB

*Country indicates where team plays, not country of nationality.

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