And now for some really crappy news. The Missouri Tigers announced on Tuesday that freshman Michael Porter Jr., one of the candidates to be selected first overall in the 2018 NBA draft, will miss the rest of this season due to a back injury that will require surgery. SI.com’s Chris Chavez relayed some of the [...]
November 22, 2017
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NCAA
Luka Doncic has the basketball world buzzing thanks to his Euroleague exploits for the Slovenian national team—momentum that could, it seems, vault him atop the NBA’s draft boards. The 6’7″ 18-year-old is already considered a top-five prospect, but following his detonation against Kristaps Porzingis and the Latvian national team, one league executive told Bleacher Report’s [...]
September 15, 2017
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As was first reported last week, the NBA is looking into lottery reform yet again to discourage tanking and help prevent the same team from getting a top three pick in consecutive seasons. While the first proposal was to flat out deny teams from having a top three pick two years in a row, the [...]
September 12, 2017
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Ryan Bawek
As was first reported a few weeks ago, formerly the No. 1 player in the country for the 2018 class, Marvin Bagley III, filed for reclassification to be able to play college basketball in the 2017-18 season and be eligible for the NBA Draft. While it was never reported officially that his application was accepted, [...]
August 16, 2017
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NBA Draft
Boston Celtics General Manager Danny Ainge stated after taking Jayson Tatum with the No. 3 pick of the 2017 NBA Draft that he would have taken Tatum at No. 1 had he had decided to stay there and not trade back to No. 3 with the Philadelphia 76ers in exchange for three 1st round draft [...]
August 8, 2017
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Rumors
Apparently reclassification is all the rage among the most talented young basketball players in the country these days. A week after the top prospect in the 2018 high school class Marvin Bagley III was rumored to try and re-classify to be eligible to play college basketball this season and be eligible for the 2018 NBA [...]
August 1, 2017
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NBA Draft
Unlike the 2017 NBA Draft Class, the 2018 prospective crop of top draft prospects class already figures to be very deep in front court players, with top one-and-done players such as Michael Porter Jr., DeAndre Ayton and Mohamed Bamba to name a few. That crop could get even deeper with the possibility of the best [...]
July 18, 2017
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NBA Draft
The Boston Celtics selected Jayson Tatum with the No. 3 overall pick on Thursday night, a decision they may have made out of pure respect for Tatum’s game and fit. Or because Josh Jackson blew them off. The Kansas stud, who ended up going at No. 4 to the Phoenix Suns, cancelled his workout with [...]
June 23, 2017
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Rumors
The rumor mill keeps churning as we are now less than 48 hours from the 2017 NBA Draft. One of the biggest players in the draft rumor game this year is the Los Angeles Lakers who hold the No. 2 pick and are currently trying to balance their desires in this year’s draft with their [...]
June 20, 2017
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Rumors
One of the NBA Draft’s what if’s and huge blunder of the past decade was the Timberwolves taking two point guards in the first round of the 2009 NBA Draft, neither of which being Steph Curry who was taken at No. 7 by the Golden State Warriors. The Wolves took Ricky Rubio, the Spanish point [...]
June 20, 2017
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Ryan Bawek