With the fantastic college basketball match-up between Kansas and Oklahoma this week, NBA fans began to take stock of the college game for the first time this season. Oklahoma’s Buddy Hield captivated the country with an electrifying performance, and for outsiders, that was enough to begin speculating about his status as a potential lottery pick in the upcoming 2016 NBA Draft.
Of course, those who regularly grind the college game and the NBA Draft world were not wholly swayed by a one-game sample from Hield, and he isn’t considered a top-tier NBA prospect. Still, it was a reminder that the race for ping-pong balls can inspire NBA teams to tank in a real way to get their hands on elite college talent, and there will always be an appetite for the next big thing.
In this space each week, we break down the bottom of the NBA, and with Buddy Hield’s future destination (insert laughter here) as the backdrop, here we go.
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