Best-known type of Sports draft is the entry Sports draft, which is used to allocate players who have recently become eligible to play in a league.
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24 Facts About Sports draft
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An entry Sports draft is intended to prevent expensive bidding wars for young talent and to ensure that no team can sign contracts with all of the best young players and make the league uncompetitive.
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The Sports draft allowed teams to recruit players on a roster system based on where the club finished the previous year.
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The Sports draft lasted just the one season before being defeated in the courts by players and coaches opposed to its limitations.
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International players, which can compose up to half of a CFL team's roster, are not subject to a Sports draft and enter the league by way of the negotiation list, a process that allows a CFL team to unilaterally stake claim to any international player on a first-come, first-served basis without the player's consent and bar them from negotiating with any other CFL team.
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Major League Soccer has two types of Sports draft that occur each year, plus a third that is held intermittently when the league adds one or more teams.
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The Sports draft was held every year until MLL merged with the Premier Lacrosse League in December 2020, with the merged league operating under the PLL banner.
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The final Sports draft was a preseason waiver Sports draft in which teams could select players who had been waived by their first squads, but only one player was selected at that time.
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The waiver Sports draft, now called the "re-entry wire", has been a permanent part of the league.
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The Sports draft is currently three rounds long with each of the 12 teams in the league getting three picks each.
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Philippine Basketball Association Sports draft is an annual event in the PBA calendar in which teams can acquire new players outside the league which are not free agents.
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The Sports draft began in 1985; prior to that teams directly hired rookies.
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Tony Mandarich and JaMarcus Russell, two other frequently cited Sports draft busts, are examples of players whose statuses as busts are amplified by their placements in the Sports draft: Mandarich was selected second overall in the 1989 NFL Draft by the Green Bay Packers after Hall of Famer Troy Aikman, and ahead of Hall of Famers Barry Sanders, Derrick Thomas and Deion Sanders, as well as seven future Pro Bowlers.
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Notable Sports draft busts include Steve Chilcott and Brien Taylor, 1st overall Sports draft picks who never reached the majors.
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Mike Piazza, who went on to become one of the best catchers of the 1990s, a 12-time MLB All-Star selection and a Hall of Famer, was chosen in the 62nd round of the 1988 MLB Sports draft and was selected only as a favor to Tommy Lasorda : to further put the pick in historic perspective, the MLB Sports draft is much shorter, having most recently been reduced from 40 rounds to 20 in 2021.
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Aaron Rodgers fell to the 24th overall pick in the 2005 Sports draft, despite being expected to be picked first overall by the San Francisco 49ers, but has since won Super Bowl XLV and been a four-time League MVP.
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Draymond Green, who was selected as the 35th pick in the 2012 NBA Sports draft, was a key contributor to the Golden State Warriors winning the 2015,2017,2018 and 2022 NBA Finals.
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Sports draft was named to the All-NBA Team in both 2019 and 2020, and was voted in as an All-Star in both seasons before being named league MVP in 2021 and 2022.
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Sports draft became a significant contributor of the "Lob City" era for the Los Angeles Clippers, along with Blake Griffin and Chris Paul.
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Kyle Korver, who was selected as the 51st pick in the 2003 NBA Sports draft, went to have a successful 17-year career in the NBA.
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Sports draft was an All-Star in 2015 and is one of the most prolific 3-point shooters in league history, ranking fifth all-time in 3-point field goals made.
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Marc Gasol is another example as he was selected as the 48th pick by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 2007 NBA Sports draft, but was traded to the Memphis Grizzlies in a package that sent his older brother Pau to the Lakers.
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Sports draft was the 2013 NBA Defensive Player of the Year, and he helped the Toronto Raptors win their first championship in 2019.
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