NBA Draft How the draft works
 Teams take turns choosing players. When a team chooses a player, it is called a 'pick'. For example, if a player is the second player chosen, people will say that he was taken with the second pick in the draft. There are two rounds in the draft. Both rounds have 30 picks, so there are 60 picks in the whole draft. Each team gets one pick per round, but sometimes, a team will pick more than once in a round or not at all.