The NBA draft is always an event with far-reaching impact, but the ramifications are typically confined to the Association. However, the 2013 NBA draft has a chance to spread its tendrils beyond the realm of professional basketball.
Usually, the impact of the draft surfaces when the new professional basketball players make a name for themselves. They affect their new teams and start shaping their legacies.
That won't change when 60 new players are added to the league on June 27, but there's a new layer of impact that could potentially take shape. This draft has the unique potential to alter how recruiting works in college basketball.
For a long time, the top high school players have tried to join the elite basketball factories around the country: Duke, Kansas, Kentucky, North Carolina, UCLA, Michigan State, etc. If I just left your favorite college team out of the list, I apologize. That's not the point, though.
These premier recruits, McDonalds All-Americans or not, go to the top schools so that they can be in the national spotlight, play for the top coaches, compete for championships and, ...
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Why the 2013 NBA Draft Could Change College Basketball Recruiting Forever
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