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The 2012 NBA draft was held on June 28, 2012, at Prudential Center in Newark, New Jersey, and broadcast in the United States on ESPN. The New Orleans Hornets won the National Basketball Association (NBA) draft lottery on May 30. For the first time in draft history, the first two players selected were from the same school: Anthony Davis (pictured) and Michael Kidd-Gilchrist were teammates at Kentucky. The 2012 draft also set a record of six players being selected from one school (Kentucky), and was the first draft in which the first three selections were all college freshmen from the same conference (the Southeastern Conference). Bernard James was the oldest player ever drafted, being 27 years old at the time of the draft. Four of the players selected never played in an NBA game. The 2012 draft class went on to have six players who participated in an All-Star Game, seven players who combined for ten championships, as well as having Anthony Davis and Damian Lillard both named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team in 2021. (Full list...)