How much difference does a year make in how we evaluate draft prospects? Certainly a year in the NBA is a significant chunk of evidence. That’s enough time to sway what we think and know about players, already so young and some still teenagers, and change our perception. It can affirm our priors or shift them altogether.



We’re one year removed from the 2018 NBA Draft now and have had a whole NBA season to evaluate the players picked last June, and those not picked. The time frame isn’t large enough that we can render final verdicts but it’s also a good amount of data — those players going against the top echelon competition that we can weigh it against everything we knew heading into the draft.



With the 2019 draft upcoming, it seems like a good time to look back at last year’s version and try to gauge how it went, so far. Luka Doncic has emerged as the best in class, while Mitchell Robinson looks like a steal for the Knicks in the...