Tag: NBA Draft
Eight months after helping Slovenia to its first European Championship, Luka Doncic added a Euroleague title to his ever-growing mantel, which now also includes the Euroleague MVP and Euroleague Final Four MVP awards. When asked by ESPN following Sunday’s victory what his next move is, Doncic said: “I will tell about all at the right […]
The NBA and National Basketball Players Association’s conversations on eliminating the one-and-done entry rule have centered on lowering the minimum age requirement no sooner than the 2020 draft, league sources told ESPN. NBA commissioner Adam Silver and NBPA executive director Michele Roberts have discussed scenarios to end the requirement for American players to wait one […]
The NBA conducted random drawings on Friday afternoon to break several significant ties in the pre-lottery NBA draft standings. The Dallas Mavericks won a tiebreaker with the Atlanta Hawks to earn the third pre-lottery position and will have a 13.8 percent chance of landing the No. 1 overall pick. The Hawks will have the fourth […]
While the NCAA junior class typically provides a limited number of NBA-ready options, this could be the most talented group in quite some time.
LiAngelo Ball is making himself available for the NBA draft, his agent, Harrison Gaines, told ESPN on Tuesday. Ball is expected to work out for some NBA teams and will participate at the Professional Basketball Combine in May at IMG Academy in Florida, Gaines told Yahoo! Sports. Source: ESPN
DeAndre Ayton is a lottery pick, but is he good enough to go first overall in June?
How is Michael Porter, Jr.’s Draft status impacted by his impending back surgery? The Missouri freshman forward, a one-and-done lock, has generally been considered one of the top two incoming players in college basketball this season (along with Duke’s Marvin Bagley III). Both are at the top of most NBA teams’ current Draft boards. But […]
The first training camps open tomorrow and the balance on Monday, so there are a few topics to get into.
Luka Doncic is already raising the bar for college basketball’s top NBA prospects and gamely challenging proven NBA pros like [Kristaps] Porzingis. “Michael Porter Jr. and Marvin Bagley III couldn’t put up the production that Doncic is doing in a 40-minute FIBA ball-control game,” an NBA veteran scouting executive told Bleacher Report. Doncic, who went for […]
The biggest news in college basketball has come in August, typically one of the quietest recruiting months of the year. Marvin Bagley III, the nation’s No. 1 high school recruit from the Class of 2018, made his announcement to reclassify up to the Class of 2017 on Monday, which means he will immediately be a […]