The consensus among NBA scouts after two months of the college basketball season is that this freshman class is thin on one-and-done prospects. There are solid options at the top (LSU's Ben Simmons, Duke's Brandon Ingram and Croatian Dragan Bender), but it's not a deep draft, and that is going to create an interesting scenario: Would freshmen who wouldn't typically be advised to leave early end up bolting at the chance of getting guaranteed money in the first round?
More players will likely test the waters this spring because of the NCAA's new rule that no longer limits the number of times a prospect can declare for the draft. But by the NCAA also pushing back the deadline to withdraw to 10 days after the final day of the NBA combine, players should be able to make more informed decisions.
The NBA stance has always been that it wants players to stay in school. "The league has always preferred being able to take a longer look at everybody," one scout told Bleacher Report.
But you wouldn't know that by league-wide drafting tendencies. Last year, a record 13 one-and-done fr ...
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Article written by C.J. Moore