Tag: NBA Draft

Time for a calendar reminder. About a year ago, news broke about an FBI investigation into college basketball recruiting. It was a bombshell that scattered shrapnel throughout the sport. At the time, pundits opined that the 2017-18 season would be all doom and gloom. As it does so well, the NCAA jerked its knee and…

Prior to the EuroLeague Final Four in Belgrade this weekend, Luka Doncic's 2017-18 season already approached the best pre-draft campaign ever for a European prospect. Winning the Eurobasket with Slovenia in the summer and dominating NBA players along the way, Doncic's EuroLeague season with Real Madrid matched the same level of success. Doncic was named…

Two days after the Final Four teams were decided and four days before they play the semifinals in San Antonio, the Associated Press announced its All-America team for 2017-18. For the first time in its 70-year history, three freshmen made the first team: Oklahoma’s Trae Young, Arizona’s Deandre Ayton and Duke’s Marvin Bagley III. All…

Adam Silver's latest thoughts on how to approach the one-and-rule could have a direct, positive impact on unpaid laborers trotting about the hardwood for our entertainment. To summarize what Silver advocates: The NBA commissioner would prefer to eliminate the one-and-done rule completely, once there are 30 G-League teams in place; one for each NBA franchise.…

NBA draft buzz hovers around the lottery names, which is to be expected. However, team success in the NBA is often the result of unearthing hidden gems from the latter-half of the first round, into the second round. The San Antonio Spurs built around such prospects, drafting Tony Parker No. 28; Manu Ginobili No. 57;…

Each NBA draft brings with it a tidal wave of speculation, assertions and #TAKES of all shapes and sizes. The 2017 edition of this annual event is just a day away, and perhaps this year more than ever, the deluge of opinions has been overwhelming. Is an athletically gifted talent from a 2-16 Pac-12 team…

Utter the words "coin flip" around NBA fans in the state of Arizona, and you may as well risk blindness washing your mouth out with soap. The next NBA season marks the 50th anniversary of the Phoenix Suns, and they'll celebrate their half-centennial with the still-lingering question of how things might be different had the…

In its second year, the NCAA's extended deadline for the NBA draft already looks like a huge positive for basketball. A number of college standouts are returning after the opportunity to evaluate their professional standing, but none are as poised for superstardom in the 2017-'18 season as Seton Hall big man Angel Delgado. If you…

Irrelevant? Not Isaiah Thomas. The last selection in the NBA draft doesn't get an official Mr. Irrelevant label like his NFL counterpart. So, since the final pick of the 2011 NBA draft is not irrelevant in a recognized capacity, a few official titles for Isaiah Thomas: • NBA All-Star. • The Eastern Conference's leading scorer…