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NIL Money is Reshaping the NBA Draft: Fewer Early Entrants and Stars Leaving

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N.C. State's Will Wade: "Now you can play the long game a little bit more" College athletes are able to profit off the use of their name, image and likeness ( NIL ) NIL revenue sharing begins July 1 , when schools can start paying athletes directly.

The number of early entrants to the NBA Draft has continued to shrink.

NBA Draft starts Wednesday night with its lowest total of those prospects in at least 10 years .

The NBA 's 2024-25 rookie scale: A player going midway through the first round would make roughly $3.5 million in first-year salary.

That figure would drop to about $2.8 million at pick No. 20, $ 2 .

Thomas Bryant and Isaiah Hartenstein were back-to-back second -rounders in 2017 .

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