June 6, 2006
Rice guard Morris Almond, the Conference USA leading scorer, is participating at the 2006 NBA Pre-Draft Camp in Orlando, Fla. Tuesday through Friday. The NBA Pre-Draft Camp invites top NBA Draft prospects annually to work out and be evaluated by league coaches, general managers, scouts and front office executives. Pre-Draft Camp drills, games, and strength and conditioning will be conducted at Disney's Wide World of Sports Complex.
ESPNU, ESPN's 24-hour college sports network, will provide the most live coverage ever of an NBA Pre-Draft Camp televising six hours over two days, June 7 and 8, 3-6 pm (CST) each day. ESPNU's coverage will include game action and interviews with players, scouts and NBA general managers. NBA TV, the league's 24-hour television network, will also provide in-depth coverage of the pre-Draft camp.
In past years, NBA Pre-Draft Camp had been held at the Moody Bible Institute's Solheim Center in downtown Chicago. The NBA Draft takes place at the Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York City on Wednesday, June 28 and is televised on ESPN beginning at 6 pm (CST).
Almond is on one of six teams that will play games in the next four days in preparation for the June 28 draft.
Team 1: Dials, Farmar, Horton, Jones, McCray, Mensah-Bonsu, Millsap, Noel, Novak, Ray
Team 2: Adeleke, Batista, Bowman, D. Brown, Hicks, Jones, Krauser, Mitchell, Washington, E. Williams
Team 3: Anderson, Augustine, Grunfeld, Haryasz, Keyru, Killingsworth, Shakur, S. Smith, J. Tucker, Watson, J. Williams
Team 4: Balkman, Blalock, Buckman, Dean, Hill, McNamara, Miller, Pinnock, Slaughter, Southall, Stinson
Team 5: Clark, Francis, Gibson, Kinsey, Newley, Powe, Quinn, Robinson, Schilb, C. Smith, Vouyoukas
Team 6: Almond, Amundson, B. Brown, Caner-Medley, Dockery, George, Gray, Karl, Nicholson, P.J. Tucker, Withers
Point guards Will Blalock, Iowa State *Bobby Brown, Cal State Fullerton Keydren Clark, St. Peter's Sean Dockery, Duke *Jordan Farmar, UCLA *Daniel Gibson, Texas Daniel Horton, Michigan Carl Krauser, Pitt Gerry McNamara, Syracuse Chris Quinn, Notre Dame *Mustafa Shakur, Arizona *Darius Washington Jr., Memphis C.J. Watson, Tennessee
Shooting guards *Morris Almond, Rice Rashad Anderson, Connecticut Denham Brown, Connecticut Taquan Dean, Louisville *Coby Karl, Boise State Viktor Keyru, Russia Tarance Kinsey, South Carolina Chris McCray, Maryland Dwayne Mitchell, Louisiana-Lafayette Brad Newley, Australia J.R. Pinnock, George Washington Allan Ray, Villanova *Blake Schilb, Loyola-Chicago Curtis Stinson, Iowa State
Small forwards Louis Amundson, UNLV *Renaldo Balkman, South Carolina Brandon Bowman, Georgetown Nik Caner-Medley, Maryland Nick George, VCU Dan Grunfeld, Stanford Tedric Hill, Gulf Coast CC (Fla.) Bobby Jones, Washington David Noel, North Carolina Steve Novak, Marquette Steven Smith, La Salle Joah Tucker, Wisconsin-Milwaukee P.J. Tucker, Texas
Power forwards Kenny Adeleke, Hartford James Augustine, Illinois J.P. Batista, Gonzaga Brad Buckman, Texas Taj Gray, Oklahoma Marco Killingsworth, Indiana Eric Hicks, Cincinnati Pops Mensah-Bonsu, George Washington Paul Millsap, Louisiana Tech Leon Powe, Cal Antywane Robinson, Temple Marcus Slaughter, San Diego State Craig Smith, Boston College (not cleared yet due to wrist injury) Curtis Withers, Charlotte
Centers Terence Dials, Ohio State Torin Francis, Notre Dame Matt Haryasz, Stanford Solomon Jones, South Florida Paul Miller, Wichita State Yemi Nicholson, Denver Michael Southall, Louisiana-Lafayette Ian Vouyoukas, St. Louis Eric Williams, Wake Forest Justin Williams, Wyoming