Syracuse, N.Y. -- Oshae Brissett and Tyus Battle have been invited to attend the newly configured G League Elite Camp, which begins Sunday and stretches through next Tuesday.

Afterward, at the same location in Chicago (Quest Multiplex), the NBA draft combine will begin. A select number of players from the G League camp will be invited to continue their stay at the NBA combine.

NBA combine traditionally has been a launching pad for NBA talent and a fairly good predictor of which players will be drafted that year. Over the past five seasons, an average of 43 of the NBA’s 60 draft picks were filled by players who participated in the NBA combine. Last year was a particularly good year for combine invitees: 49 of them heard their names on draft night.

Over the last five years, NBA teams have drafted a total of 11 college players who did not secure combine invitations. That’s fewer than three per year. The highest of those picks was Josh Huestis, whom the Thunder selected with the 29th pick of the 2014 NBA Draft. Huestis subsequently spent most of his career in the G League.

Josh Richardson is probably the best recent example of a college player who succeeded in the NBA without a combine experience. The former Tennessee wing was not invited to the 2015 combine, but the Heat made him the 40th selection that year and Richardson has been a productive player in Miami his entire pro career.

Securing an invite to the combine, however advantageous, is no guarantee that a player will be drafted. That’s mostly because NBA teams select an average of 10 international players each June who have never played a minute of college basketball. Those international players rarely attended the combine.

So what happens to combine participants that don’t get drafted?

Some of those invitees -- like Battle last year -- return to their respective colleges and remove their names from consideration. Others go undrafted and begin to find their way in professional basketball. An average of 15 guys who attend the combine each year stay in the draft and are not selected by an NBA team. The vast majority of those players wind up in the G League or in Europe.

Some of the more successful stories of undrafted players who participated in NBA combines over the past five years include:

2018

Allonzo Trier: The Arizona product came out after his junior season and ultimately ended up with the New York Knicks, where he played substantial minutes this season.

Kenrich Williams: The TCU senior was not drafted last year but hooked up with the Pelicans and played meaningful late-season minutes.

2017

Chris Boucher: The former Oregon forward out of Quebec dealt with injury and played intermittently for the Warriors’ G League team last year; signed by the Raptors in the offseason, his two-way contract was recently converted to a regular contract.

2016

Dorian Finney-Smith: The former Florida forward endured a serious injury last year but has stuck with the Dallas Mavericks and gets rotational minutes.

2015

Quinn Cook: The former Duke point guard is a member of the Golden State Warriors and plays about 14 minutes per game.

2014

Khem Birch: Birch, who played for the Pittsburgh Panthers for a year before transferring to UNLV, bounced around the G League and Europe before landing with the Orlando Magic in 2017. He’s still on the Magic roster and averaged about 5 points per game this season.

Syracuse guard Tyus Battle (25) during a game against Notre Dame on Saturday, Jan. 5, 2019, at the Joyce Center in South Bend, Ind. Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com Dennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.comDennis Nett | dnett@syracuse.com

This year, the NBA has repurposed a combine previously set aside solely for G League players. It’s called the G League Elite Camp and it now allows college seniors and underclassmen to participate in a showcase that precedes the NBA draft combine. The G League Elite Camp runs from May 12-14. The NBA draft combine goes from May 15-19. Both of them will be held at Chicago’s Quest Multiplex.

The NBA polls its teams, then compiles a list of players those teams want to see at the combine. The top vote-getters, usually about 60 players, get combine invites. (Last year, the NBA extended 69 invitations.) This year, the NBA extended combine invitations to top prospects; the next 40 on its list were invited to the G League Elite Camp. A few players who impress during the G League Camp will be asked to stay in Chicago to participate in the NBA draft combine.

Battle tested the waters last year, participated in the NBA combine, then returned to Syracuse and announced his junior year would be his final season of college basketball. He has chosen Jay-Z’s Roc Nation to represent him as he prepares for a professional basketball career.

Brissett, who finished his sophomore season with the Orange, declared for the draft while retaining an option to return to Syracuse next season. College players who declare and decide to return to school must inform their school’s athletic director and the NBA of that decision by May 29.