Mark Sears, Grant Nelson, and Labaron Philon have all received invitations to the NBA Draft Combine, the league announced Friday.
The trio from Alabama basketball is among 75 players selected to participate in the event, which will take place in Chicago from May 11–18 at Wintrust Arena and the Marriott Marquis.
Sears and Nelson are not eligible to return to college, as both exhausted their eligibility following the Crimson Tide’s 2024-25 season, which ended in the Elite Eight. Philon, however, still has remaining college eligibility and can return if he withdraws from the draft by the NCAA’s early entry deadline of May 28.
“I would say 100% draft, but you know, things can change,” Philon said earlier this week. “You never know. But I would say I love ‘Bama. The whole program, the school, the state. It was all love when I was playing there. I never received any hatred or nothing like that. Walking around school and just being a regular kid again was mostly the most fun part for me. I’ll never take that for granted. But I’m all in on the draft right now because I feel like I want to be a pro. You never know what can happen. We’ll just have to wait and see.”
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