2005 NBA draft
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| Date(s) | June 28, 2005 |
| Time | 7:30 pm (EDT) |
| Location | Madison Square Garden, New York City, New York |
| Network(s) (US) | ESPN |
| First selection | Andrew Bogut, Milwaukee Bucks |
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The 2005 NBA draft took place on June 28, 2005 in the Theatre at Madison Square Garden in New York City. In this draft, NBA teams took turns selecting amateur college basketball players and other first-time eligible players, such as players from high schools and non-North American leagues. The NBA announced that 49 college and high school players and 11 international players had filed as early-entry candidates for the draft.
This was the last NBA draft for which high school players were eligible. The new collective bargaining agreement between the league and its players union established a new age limit for draft eligibility. Starting with the 2006 NBA draft, players of any nationality who complete athletic eligibility at a U.S. high school cannot declare themselves eligible for the draft unless they turn 19 no later than December 31 of the year of the draft and are at least one year removed from the graduation of their high school classes. International players, defined in the NBA's collective bargaining agreement as non-US nationals who did not complete athletic eligibility at a U.S. high school, must turn 19 (or older) in the calendar year of the draft, up from 18. As of 2016, the only players to have declared for the NBA draft straight out of high school ever since these restrictions took place were Satnam Singh Bhamara, an Indian postgraduate from IMG Academy that decided to declare for the 2015 NBA draft and was selected by the Dallas Mavericks at Pick #52 a decade later after not receiving any offers from any college or overseas teams, and Thon Maker, a South Sudanese born Australian from Orangeville Prep in Canada that declared for the 2016 NBA draft after finding out he was a postgraduate student there and was the latest high school student to be taken in the first round of the draft at Pick #10 by the Milwaukee Bucks.
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