The NBA has added Santa Clara forward Allen Graves, Texas guard Dailyn Swain, Duke wing Isaiah Evans and Stanford guard Ebuka Okorie to its 2026 NBA Draft green room invitation list, Hoops Rumors reported, citing ESPN's Jeremy Woo.
The four new invitations bring the reported green room group to 24 players for next week's draft in Brooklyn. NBA.com lists the 2026 NBA Draft for June 23-24 at Barclays Center.
Four Prospects Join NBA Draft Room
Hoops Rumors reported that this is the third round of invitations sent by the league. The NBA initially invited 14 players, then added six more before this latest group of four.
The updated total matches the 24 prospects invited to the green room for the 2025 draft. The green room is not a draft guarantee, but it is a strong signal of league and team expectations because the NBA builds the list around where clubs believe players will come off the board.
Graves, Swain, Evans and Okorie are not being presented as a single prospect tier here. Their shared news value is procedural: each has now been brought into the league's main draft-night staging area, a meaningful visibility point for players and programs before selections begin.
NBA Uses Team Voting To Reduce Risk
The league's green room process is designed to avoid leaving invited players waiting through the first day without hearing their names called. Hoops Rumors reported that the NBA asks teams to vote on the 25 players they expect to be selected first.
That voting mechanism is why green room updates matter even before the draft order starts moving. Invitations reflect a league-wide attempt to read the board, not simply a media list or a college-basketball popularity contest.
There is still no guarantee every invited player will go in the first round. Hoops Rumors noted, however, that all 24 prospects invited in 2025 were drafted in the first round, which is the precedent attached to this year's matching total.
Brooklyn List Nears Its Final Shape
Unless one of the 24 invitees declines, Hoops Rumors wrote that the full green room list is likely now known. The timing fits the calendar: the first round is close enough that teams' boards and league expectations are no longer just early-cycle speculation.
The development also gives the four newly invited prospects a clearer public place in the final week of draft coverage. The next step is no longer another ranking update. It is whether the league's read of the first-day board matches what teams actually do at Barclays Center.