March Madness must be a strange time to be a young player in the NBA. Here they are, slogging through the dog days of an 82-game season, while their old college buddies sprint to a photo finish in the NCAA tournament.
(That is, if their old teammates didn't all make the early leap to the pros, like all of John Calipari's kids out of Kentucky. Or if they played in college at all, rather than grooming their games in professional leagues overseas, be they international prospects or American high schoolers who wanted pay for their play.)
With so much of the Association's future on full display in the Big Dance, perhaps it's time to give the teens and twenty-somethings currently playing pro their due. Not all of the NBA's 30 teams can claim a college-age player (i.e. under the age of 22), but for those who can, we've picked out the best one where there are options.
And for those with older rosters, we went with those closest to the basketball cradle.
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