Editing 2004 NBA draft (section)

===Automatically eligible entrants===
Players who do not meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:
*They have no remaining college eligibility.
*If they graduated from high school in the U.S., but did not enroll in a U.S. college or university, four years have passed since their high school class graduated.
*They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA, anywhere in the world, and have played under the contract.

Players who meet the criteria for "international" players are automatically eligible if they meet any of the following criteria:
*They are at least 22 years old during the calendar year of the draft. In term of dates players born on or before December 31, 1982, were automatically eligible for the 2004 draft.
*They have signed a contract with a professional basketball team not in the NBA ''within the United States'', and have played under that contract.

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|+ Other automatically eligible players
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! Player !! {{tooltip|Team|Most recent team played for before the draft}} !!class=unsortable| Note !!class=unsortable| Ref.
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!scope="row"|{{flagicon|AUS}} [[Adam Caporn]]
| [[Wollongong Hawks]] ([[National Basketball League (Australia)|Australia]]) || Left [[Saint Mary's Gaels men's basketball|Saint Mary's]] in 2003; playing professionally since the 2003–04 season ||align=center|<ref>{{cite web |title=Adam Caporn Bio |url=https://smcgaels.com/news/2011/5/27/Adam_Caporn_Bio |website=Saint Mary's College of California |date=May 27, 2011 |access-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-date=May 20, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230520060732/https://smcgaels.com/news/2011/5/27/Adam_Caporn_Bio |url-status=live }}</ref>
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