Thon Maker can go from Orangeville Prep to professional basketball, after the NBA cleared the 19-year-old to enter June’s draft.

Maker’s declaration for the draft was approved and he will hire an agent, nullifying his NCAA eligibility, the Star has confirmed.

Maker declared for the draft on April 3, with his coach and guardian Ed Smith saying that he’d graduated from Orangeville’s basketball academy in the 2014-15 academic year and that he’d spent the past season taking part in post-graduate studies.

The NBA requires players to be at least 19 and a year removed from high school.

The Sudanese-born Australian citizen came to Canada two years ago with Smith after playing the past two years in schools in the U.S. At the Biosteel All-Canadian high school all-star game this week (Maker sat out), he was confident that he’d be cleared and taken in the draft.

ESPN’s mock draft projects him going 20th overall. Draft Express has him at No. 40 on its board.

He’s added muscle to his seven-foot-one frame this year, which was a priority for him this season. He has a good all-around game but it’s been widely said that Maker would need a year or two in the NBA’s D-League if he were selected in the draft.

Orangeville head coach Brandon Lesovsky said at the All-Canadian game this past week that he was confident Maker would be drafted.

“I am (confident),” he said. “I don’t have any inside sources or anybody telling me that. I think at minimum next year you’ve got a seven-foot-one rim-rummer that can shoot the three, a high-motor guy. That’s valuable at minimum.

“He wants to work and he doesn’t shy away from anything.”

Maker has been training in South Carolina since declaring for the draft, which goes June 23 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn.