
30 New NBA Millionaires & One 300-Pounder Paid $4M Without Playing
You can call a 1st-round pick a “bust” if he does not produce in the NBA. But his banker will not think of him as a failure.

You can call a 1st-round pick a “bust” if he does not produce in the NBA. But his banker will not think of him as a failure.

The big excitement out of the gates in the NBA Draft hinges on if the Los Angeles Lakers pick guard D’Angelo Russell out of Ohio State to play as a temporary backcourt mate and ultimate heir to Kobe Bryant.

Until Arizona’s Stanley Johnson opted for the NBA Thursday night, colleges were on a roll with stars picking the over the NBA or even instead of staying in high school.

The initial Value Add Projections for 2016 have Villanova and LSU as Final Four teams after Trevor Lacey and Bobby Portis announced for the NBA Draft Wednesday. Portis projected as the third-best returning player, but his Arkansas team dropped from 6th to 24th after his announcement.

More than 200,000 boys play high school basketball, with only 5% (just over 4,000) playing D1 in college. Even the best of those 4,000 has just a 63% chance at the NBA.

USA Today summed it up Sunday: “Who needs Lebron James when you have Hassan Whiteside?”