Thirty different names were left off of the eligibility list for the NBA Draft because the league judged their applications to be, more or less, an exercise in absurdity.
94 apparently legitimate names were released from the early candidate list on Friday, including 13 high school kids and Wyoming junior point guard Jay Straight.
There will be 59 Draft picks this year. Early-entry candidates without agents can withdraw from the draft by June 17.
The Denver Nuggets pick number 20 in this year?s NBA Draft and will work out about 30 players starting May 25.
Included in this group are Croatian forward-center Damir Omerhodzic, Louisiana State freshman forward Brandon Bass, Cal State Fullerton senior forward Pape Sow, Texas Wesleyan center David Johnson, Colorado junior center David Harrison, Brigham Young senior center Rafael Araujo, and 7-foot-3 Korean center Ha Seung-Jin.
"I don't know if you're going to get somebody that can impact your team immediately," Nugget GM Vandeweghe said. "But who knows, he may go over to Europe for a couple years and then come and play."
The Nuggets will also take a look at Europe?s brightest stars, including Russian 7-3 center Pavel Podkolzine and Lithuanian 7-1 center Martynas Andriuskevicius, who is projected to be a lottery pick.