News from June 23. New York released Tony Wroten. Deron Williams (Dal) elected to opt-out of his contract and, thus, is a free agent. Jeremy Lin (Cha) elected to opt-out of his contract and, thus, is a free agent. Note: the Atl-Ind-Uta trade reported yesterday has not officially occurred (Jeff Teague to Indiana, George Hill to Utah, #12 draft pick to Atlanta). It is a reportly agreed on trade that can not officially occur until after the July Moratorium ends on July 6 (and the 2016-17 salaries come into effect). There were also some reported trades from draft night that will not become official until after the July Moratorium ends. The below trades HAVE officially occurred. The 2016 NBA draft occurred. Draft-day trades: a) Sacramento traded the draft rights to #8 Marquese Chriss to Phoenix for the draft rights to #13 Georgios Papagiannis, the draft rights to #28 Skal Labissiere, the draft rights to 2014 pick (#27) Bogdan Bogdanovic, and a 2020 2nd round draft pick. b) Oklahoma City traded Serge Ibaka to Orlando for Victor Oladipo, Ersan Ilyasova, and the draft rights #11 Domantas Sabonis. c) Boston traded the draft rights to #31 Deyonta Davis and the draft rights to #35 Rade Zagorac to Memphis for a protected 2019 1st round draft pick. d) The LA Clippers traded the draft rights to #33 Cheick Diallo to New Orleans for the draft rights to #39 David Michineau and the draft rights to #40 Diamond Stone. e) Milwaukee traded the draft rights to Patrick McCaw to Golden State for cash. f) Utah traded the draft rights to #42 Isaiah Whitehead to Brooklyn for the draft rights to #55 Marcus Paige and cash. g) Orlando traded the draft rights to #47 Jake Layman to Portland for a 2019 2nd round draft pick and cash. h) Atlanta traded the draft rights to #54 Kay Felder to Cleveland for cash. i) Denver traded the draft rights to #56 Daniel Hamilton to Oklahoma Cty for cash. First Round 1 Phi Ben Simmons ........... F 6-10 240 7/20/96 LSU'19 2 LAL Brandon Ingram ........ F 6-9 190 9/2/97 Duke'19 3 Bos Jaylen Brown .......... F 6-7 225 10/24/96 California'19 4 Pho Dragan Bender ......... F 7-1 220 11/17/97 Croatia 5 Min Kris Dunn ............. G 6-4 210 3/18/94 Providence'17 6 NO Buddy Hield ........... G 6-4 214 12/17/93 Oklahoma'16 7 Den Jamal Murray .......... G 6-4 207 2/23/97 Kentucky'19 8 aPho Marquese Chriss ....... F 6-9 225 7/2/97 Washington'19 9 Tor Jakob Poeltl .......... F-C 7-0 248 10/15/95 Utah'18 10 Mil Thon Maker ............ F-C 7-1 223 2/25/97 Athlete Inst. Aca. 11 bOKC Domantas Sabonis ...... F 6-11 240 5/3/96 Gonzaga'18 12 Uta Taurean Prince ........ F 6-8 220 3/22/94 Baylor'16 13 aSac Giorgios Papagiannis .. C 7-1 240 7/3/97 Greece 14 Chi Denzel Valentine ...... G 6-6 210 11/16/93 Michigan State'16 15 Den Juan Hernangomez ...... F 6-9 230 9/28/95 Spain 16 Bos Guerschon Yabusele .... F 6-7 260 12/17/95 France 17 Mem Wade Baldwin .......... G 6-3 194 3/29/96 Vanderbilt'18 18 Det Henry Ellenson ........ F 6-11 245 1/13/97 Marquette'19 19 Den Malik Beasley ......... G 6-5 196 11/26/96 Florida State'19 20 Ind Caris LeVert .......... G 6-7 205 8/25/94 Michigan'16 21 Atl DeAndre' Bembry ....... F 6-6 210 7/4/94 Saint Joseph's'17 22 Cha Malachi Richardson .... G 6-6 205 1/5/96 Syracuse'19 23 Bos Ante Zizic ............ F-C 6-11 250 1/4/97 Croatia 24 Phi Timothe Luwawu ........ F 6-6 205 5/9/95 France 25 LAC Brice Johnson ......... F 6-10 230 7/27/94 North Carolina'16 26 Phi Furkan Korkmaz ........ G 6-7 185 7/24/97 Turkey 27 Tor Pascal Siakam ......... F 6-9 230 2/4/94 New Mexico State'18 28 aSac Skal Labissiere ....... F-C 6-11 225 3/18/96 Kentucky'19 29 SA Dejounte Murray ....... G 6-5 170 9/19/96 Washington'19 30 GS Damian Jones .......... F-C 7-0 245 6/30/95 Vanderbilt'17 Second Round 31 cMem Deyonta Davis ......... F 6-10 240 12/2/96 Michigan State'19 32 LAL Ivica Zubac ........... C 7-1 240 3/18/97 Bosnia 33 dNO Cheick Diallo ......... F 6-9 220 9/13/96 Kansas'19 34 Pho Tyler Ulis ............ G 5-9 160 1/5/96 Kentucky'18 35 cMem Rade Zagorac .......... G-F 6-9 202 8/12/95 Serbia 36 Mil Malcolm Brogdon ....... G 6-5 215 12/11/92 Virginia'16 37 Hou Chinanu Onuaku ........ F 6-10 245 11/1/96 Louisville'18 38 eGS Patrick McCaw ......... G 6-7 185 10/25/95 UNLV'18 39 dLAC David Michineau ....... G 6-4 180 6/6/94 France 40 dLAC Diamond Stone ......... C 6-11 255 2/10/97 Maryland'19 41 Orl Stephen Zimmerman ..... C 7-0 240 9/9/96 UNLV'19 42 fBro Isaiah Whitehead ...... G 6-4 210 3/8/95 Seton Hall'18 43 Hou Zhou Qi ............... F-C 7-1 210 1/16/96 China 44 Atl Isaia Cordinier ....... G 6-4 180 11/28/96 France 45 Bos Demetrius Jackson ..... G 6-1 201 9/7/94 Notre Dame'17 46 Dal A.J Hammons ........... C 7-0 250 8/27/92 Purdue'16 47 gPor Jake Layman ........... F 6-9 220 3/7/94 Maryland'16 48 Chi Paul Zipser ........... G-F 6-8 215 2/18/94 Germany 49 Det Michael Gbinije ....... G 6-7 200 6/5/92 Syracuse'16 50 Ind Georges Niang ......... F 6-8 230 6/17/93 Iowa State'16 51 Bos Ben Bentil ............ F 6-9 235 3/29/95 Providence'18 52 Uta Joel Bolomboy ......... F-C 6-9 235 1/28/94 Weber State'16 53 Den Petr Cornelie ......... F 6-11 220 7/26/95 France 54 hCle Kay Felder ............ G 5-9 176 3/29/95 Oakland'17 55 fUta Marcus Paige .......... G 6-2 175 9/11/93 North Carolina'16 56 iOKC Daniel Hamilton ....... G-F 6-7 195 8/8/95 Connecticutt'18 57 Mem Wang Zhelin ........... C 7-0 220 1/20/94 China 58 Bos Abdel Nader ........... F 6-6 230 9/25/93 Iowa State'16 59 Sac Isaiah Cousins ........ G 6-5 191 3/13/94 Oklahoma'16 60 Uta Tyrone Wallace ........ 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