Grand Rapids select Robert Covington with first pick of 2014 NBA D-League Draft

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NEW YORK – The Grand Rapids Drive selected Robert Covington (6-9, 240, Tennessee State) with the first overall pick of the 2014 NBA Development League Draft Live via Cisco WebEx on Saturday afternoon from the league’s New York headquarters.

The Santa Cruz Warriors drafted Elliot Williams (6-5, 183, Memphis) with the second overall pick and the Austin Spurs chose Erik Murphy (6-10, 240, Florida) with the third overall selection. Carrick Felix (6-6, 203, Arizona State) to Santa Cruz and Ben Hansbrough (6-3, 203, Notre Dame) to Grand Rapids rounded out the top-five selections, all of whom boast NBA experience.

Kentucky saw two former standouts selected in the first round as Marquis Teague (6-2, 180) was taken ninth overall by the Oklahoma City Blue and the Los Angeles D-Fenders selected Eloy Vargas (6-11, 250) with the 17th overall pick.

Milos Milisavljevic (6-4, 202) of Serbia and Joonas Caven (6-11, 200) of Finland headline the international players selected in the Draft. Milisavljevic was selected by the Texas Legends with the sixth overall selection and Caven went to the Reno Bighorns with the 10th overall pick. Japanese guard Yuki Togashi went to Santa Cruz in the second round (27th overall)

NBA D-League training camp rosters will be comprised of players drafted today, along with returning, affiliate, draft-rights and local tryout players and cannot exceed 17 total players.  Teams had to have selected at least six players in today’s Draft and all players who were selected must be invited to training camp.

For the fourth consecutive year, all 18 NBA D-League teams and the NBA D-League headquarters in New York participated in the Draft exclusively through Cisco WebEx Meeting Center.

Full results from the 2014 NBA D-League Draft Live via Cisco WebEx are below:

ROUND ONE

  1. Grand Rapids – Robert Covington
  2. Santa Cruz – Elliot Williams
  3. Austin – Erik Murphy
  4. Santa Cruz – Carrick Felix
  5. Grand Rapids – Ben Hansbrough
  6. Texas – Milos Milisavljevic
  7. Idaho – Tre Bussey
  8. Bakersfield – Robert Vaden
  9. Oklahoma City – Marquis Teague
  10. Reno – Joonas Caven
  11. Reno – Brady Heslip
  12. Canton – Michael Dunigan
  13. Santa Cruz – Melvin Johnson III
  14. Rio Grande Valley – Chane Behanan
  15. Sioux Falls – Fuquan Edwin
  16. Iowa – Damien Wilkins
  17. Los Angeles – Eloy Vargas
  18. Rio Grande Valley – Justin Jackson

ROUND TWO

  1. Delaware – D.J. Seeley
  2. Erie – Daniel Coursey
  3. Fort Wayne – Andre Emmett
  4. Maine – Asauhn Dixon-Tatum
  5. Grand Rapids – Omondi Amoke
  6. Texas – Nick Barbour
  7. Erie – John Bohannon
  8. Los Angeles – Naadir Tharpe
  9. Santa Cruz – Yuki Togashi
  10. Westchester – Joseph Bertrand
  11. Canton – Tristan Spurlock
  12. Delaware – Jamal Jones
  13. Santa Cruz – Trayvonn Wright
  14. Rio Grande Valley – Tristan Carey
  15. Sioux Falls – Michael Williams
  16. Sioux Falls – Manny Atkins
  17. Delaware – Sebastian Koch
  18. Idaho – Quinton Doggett

ROUND THREE

  1. Grand Rapids – Shaun Pruitt
  2. Erie – Lenzelle Smith Jr.
  3. Maine – Omari Johnson
  4. Maine – David Stockton
  5. Delaware – Devon Moore
  6. Oklahoma City – George Beamon
  7. Idaho –Ryan Sypkens
  8. Austin – Keith Wright
  9. Oklahoma City – Dane Miller
  10. Sioux Falls – Chadrack Lufile
  11. Grand Rapids – Kammeon Holsey
  12. Idaho- Kodi Augustus
  13. Grand Rapids – Dominic Waters
  14. Rio Grande Valley – Tyrone White
  15. Maine – Xavier Munford
  16. Iowa – Mike McCall
  17. Los Angeles – Ray Turner
  18. Fort Wayne  – Titus Rubles

ROUND FOUR

  1. Delaware – Kenny Hall
  2. Reno – Brian Oliver
  3. Austin – Donte Poole
  4. Maine – Luke Loucks
  5. Grand Rapids – Renaldo Woolridge
  6. Texas – Anthony Vereen
  7. Fort Wayne – Marcus Hall
  8. Bakersfield – Michael Haynes
  9. Oklahoma City – Jonathan Mitchell
  10. Westchester – Todd Mayo
  11. Reno – Raven Johnson
  12. Reno – Kevin Foster
  13. Canton – Tymell Murphy
  14. Rio Grande Valley – Duke Mondy
  15. Sioux Falls – Matt Hezekiah
  16. Iowa – Marcus Melvin
  17. Los Angeles – Charles Hinkle
  18. Fort Wayne – Stephen Madison

ROUND FIVE

  1. Delaware – LaQuentin Miles
  2. Erie – Kevin Anderson
  3. Austin – Corey Raji
  4. Maine – Joshua Freelove
  5. Grand Rapids – Kelsey Barlow
  6. Texas – Luis Jacobo
  7. Idaho – Nick Covington
  8. Texas – DeShone McClure
  9. Oklahoma City – Michael Porrini
  10. Westchester – AJ Ussery
  11. Idaho – Joel Wright
  12. Canton – Kevin Thompson
  13. Santa Cruz – Marcus Bell
  14. Rio Grande Valley – Jarvis Threatt
  15. Sioux Falls – Ashton Gibbs
  16. Iowa – Anthony Stover
  17. Los Angeles – Jordan Burris
  18. Fort Wayne – Stefan Bonneau

ROUND SIX

  1. Delaware – Brandon Goode
  2. Erie – Travis Betran
  3. Austin – Joe Mitchell
  4. Grand Rapids – Moses Sundufu
  5. Grand Rapids – Jerrell Sanders
  6. Texas – Arron Mollet
  7. Idaho – Shane Gibson
  8. Bakersfield – Mohamed Tangara
  9. Oklahoma City –  Amadou Mbodji
  10. Westchester – Sherrod Wright
  11. Westchester – Dwayne Mitchell
  12. Canton – Kevin Olekaibe
  13. Santa Cruz – Greg Howard
  14. Rio Grande Valley – Austin Witter
  15. Sioux Falls – Chris McNealy
  16. Iowa – Malik Smith
  17. Bakersfield – Bill Clark
  18. Fort Wayne – Marcus Simmons

ROUND SEVEN

  1. Erie – Marcus Goode
  2. Austin – Mfon Udofia
  3. Idaho – Tyrrel Tate
  4. Bakersfield – Ricardo Barbosa
  5. Westchester – Kevin Tiggs
  6. Reno – Keith Chamberlain
  7. Canton – Deilvez Yearby
  8. Iowa – Brandon Provost
  9. Los Angeles – Sammy Yeager
  10. Fort Wayne – Kyrie Sutton

ROUND EIGHT

  1. Erie – Justin Simmons
  2. Austin – Cory Dixon
  3. Bakersfield – John Petrucelli
  4. Reno – Raymond Cowels