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Brennan: Five sleepers I like in the NBA Draft


For college hoops people, the NBA Draft process can occasionally be a bit bewildering. Sure, sometimes the best players are just the best players, and the Wooden Award winner is the guy who should go No. 1 overall, or whatever; sometimes Anthony Davis dominates en route to a national title, and then joins the draft pool and makes life simple. Just as often, though, NBA mock drafts can bear only a passing resemblance to what the top of the college game looked like in the previous season.

There are plenty of good reasons for this. Young players develop at different speeds; elite freshman prospects often don’t show everything they have at age 19; juniors and seniors tend to wind up staying — and excelling — at the college level precisely because they aren’t quite good enough for the NBA. Stylistically, the two levels are different, the attributes required are diffuse, the profiles of player divergent. It makes sense.

Still, sometimes the college…





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