Nothing had been normal in 2020 and the NBA Draft was no exception to the rule, with a virtual ceremony, Adam Silver giving the names of the selected, who reacted from home.
For this 2021 edition, The Athletic announces that the league is returning to Barclays Center, which has hosted it since 2012.
Above all, there will be a face-to-face “Green Room”, that is to say that the players expected very high (Cade Cunningham…) will be there and will go up on the platform to shake hands with the commissioner once called.
The NBA is also currently sending invitations to players who are generally expected to be in the first 14 places of the next Draft, on July 29.
The NBA will hold the 2021 NBA Draft at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, sources tell @TheAthletic @Stadium. Invites for an in-person Green Room are going out now, after a virtual Green Room last year due to the pandemic.
— Shams Charania (@ShamsCharania) July 15, 2021