More so than in other drafts, it's hard to unearth sleepers at the NBA draft. It's pretty rare that players drafted out of the first round—or in many drafts, even the lottery—ever develop into star players.
What does happen every year, however, is that teams and pundits alike undervalue and underrate a few players. That happens for a number of reasons, though with organizations often valuing potential above all other factors, it's often the upperclassmen in a draft who fall a few slots further than they should.
That's not always the case, of course, but it has become a trend in the one-and-done era of college basketball. So below, we'll take a look at a few of this year's underrated prospects, with two of them very much fitting the "undervalued upperclassmen" trope.
Projections
Buddy Hield, SG, Oklahoma
How is a player projected to be a top-five pick in the above mock draft possibly underrated?
Fair question.
The answer is this: Hield averaged 25.0 points, 5.7 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.1 steals per game, ...
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