NBA Draft: 2024 Portsmouth Invitational Tournament Participants
Which players will be competing in Portsmouth in front of hundreds of NBA personnel?
As it relates to the NBA pre-draft process, the primary mechanism of a prospect showcasing their skills firsthand is in individual and group workouts with teams directly. However, there are several opportunities for those prospects to prove that they’re NBA talents outside of those more intimate workouts.
The official NBA Draft Combine is the most notable of these opportunities, but there’s also the Nike Hoop Summit, G League Elite Camp and the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament.
The 70th Annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament (PIT) will take place April 17-20, just after the close of the college season at Churchland High School in Portsmouth, VA. This is a four-day event — restricted to college basketball seniors — that breaks out prospects onto teams that compete in a tournament-style setting. The PIT has been held annually (outside of the 2020 cancellation due to COVID-19) since 1953.
There are over 400 alumni of this event playing professional basketball around the world, with more than 65 who played in at least one NBA game last season.
Every year, hundreds of NBA personnel attend the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, which serves as an important scouting opportunity to evaluate players ahead of the NBA Draft. It allows teams to see how players perform against their peers and assess their potential fit at the professional level, which can significantly impact a player’s draft stock. This is often where some of the more underrated prospects really emerge in the pre-draft process.
Just last season, Toumani Camara (Trail Blazers), Craig Porter Jr. (Cavaliers), Trey Jemison (Grizzlies) and Hunter Tyson (Nuggets) shined on the PIT stage and are now playing minutes in the NBA as rookies.
Which 64 players will be participants in the 70th Annual Portsmouth Invitational Tournament ahead of the 2024 NBA Draft?
- Sam Griffin (Wyoming)
- Clarence Daniels (New Hampshire)
- Tyler Burton (Villanova)
- Eric Gaines (UAB)
- Quincy Guerrier (Illinois)
- Jahvon Quinerly (Memphis)
- AJ Hoggard (Michigan State)
- Donta Scott (Maryland)
- KJ Jones (Emmanuel)
- Ali Ali (Akron)
- RayJ Dennis (Baylor)
- Jamison Battle (Ohio State)
- Jamarion Sharpe (Ole Miss)
- Tyler Wahl (Wisconsin)
- Fardaws Aimaq (California)
- Allen Flanigan (Ole Miss)
- Tolu Smith III (Mississippi State)
- DJ Horne (NC State)
- Keenan Blackshear (Nevada)
- Marcus Domask (Illinois)
- Jahmir Young (Maryland)
- Tristan Enaruna (Cleveland State)
- Sean East (Missouri)
- Jordan Wright (LSU)
- Tyrese Samuel (Florida)
- Ta’Lon Cooper (South Carolina)
- Enrique Freeman (Akron)
- Alex Ducas (Saint Mary’s)
- Tyler Robertson (Portland)
- Jermaine Couisnard (Oregon)
- Tyrece Radford (Texas A&M)
- Riley Minix (Morehead State)
- Will Baker (LSU)
- Josh Oduro (Providence)
- TJ Bickerstaff (James Madison)
- Aaron Estrada (Alabama)
- Kalib Boone (UNLV)
- Keylan Boone (UNLV)
- Jarod Lucas (Jarod Lucas)
- Branden Carlson (Utah)
- Kevin Cross (Tulane)
- Isaiah Crawford (Louisiana Tech)
- Kyle Rode (Liberty)
- Vonterius Woolbright (Western Carolina)
- Max Abbas (Texas)
- Tyson Walker (Michigan State)
- Isaac Jones (Washington State)
- Malevy Leons (Bradley)
- Jesse Edwards (West Virginia)
- Quincy Olivari (Xavier)
- Xavier Johnson (Southern Illinois)
- Hunter Cattoor (Virginia Tech)
- Joel Soriano (St. John’s)
- Shahada Wells (McNeese)
- Drew Pember (UNC Asheville)
These prospects have already been broken into their respective teams as well.
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