A Mom’s Fairytale Draft Spoiled by Her Employer, the 76ers
NEW YORK (AP) — Tyneeha Rivers walked into Barclays Center for the NBA draft with her son, Mikal Bridges.
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Duke Tops Kentucky With Average 5.5 Future NBA Players Per Season
Four Duke 1st Round Draft picks play Summer League with guaranteed NBA contracts bring the total to 38 Duke players in the Value Add historical database who made the NBA, and the average Duke team since 2001-02 boasted a national best 5.5 future NBA players per season.
Value Add Ranks ND Star No. 1 Returning Player, Lonzo No. 1 Prospect After Hilarious Father’s Day Rip
Value Add Basketball indicates Lonzo Ball, who just pulled off a hilarious Father’s Day rip on his overbearing Dad, should receive $21 million for the next three seasons as the No. 1 pick in Thursday’s NBA draft, while Notre Dame’s Bonzie Colson edges Wisconsin’s Ethan Happ as the best of the 3,704 players still playing for free at the college level.
Outsourced! Foreign Players Constitute Half of NBA Draft’s First Round Picks
The National Basketball Association has gone international. It happened years ago. But the tuned out tuning-in to Thursday night’s first round of the NBA Draft witnessed a shocker, an überraschen even.
First Round NBA Draft Picks from 1 to 30
The first round of the 2016 NBA Draft witnessed four trades, 14 foreign-born players, and the son of a Hall of Famer.
76ers Select Ben Simmons First in NBA Draft
The Philadelphia 76ers selected LSU big man Ben Simmons first in the NBA draft.
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.
Lakers Can Grab Kobe’s Replacement at No. 2
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.
AZ’s Stanley Johnson Goes Pro but Players Choosing College over NBA
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.
NCAA Basketball Top 100: Maryland, Nova, LSU, Kentucky Early Final Four
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.
Less Than 1 in 1000 Chance at NBA for HS Basketball Players
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.
Analytics vs. Observation: Value Add Spotted Heat’s Hassan Whiteside in 2010
USA Today summed it up Sunday: “Who needs Lebron James when you have Hassan Whiteside?”
