Like Ned Stark promised his sister Lyanna as she lay on her deathbed about 15 years prior to the start of the story in “Game of Thrones” — or the “A Song of Ice and Fire” series, if you’re so inclined — I promised a follow-up column from my final NBA Draft Big Board of the calendar 2018 year with some notes on players who have been interesting throughout the first half of the 2019 NBA Draft season.



Obviously, this is that column. It discusses seven of the more interesting players currently ranked within the top-40 of my board. I wish I could say that was planned based off of the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros, given the apparent theme I’ve laid out for myself, but that wasn’t the case. I had planned to write about more, but much like George R.R. Martin, I’m apparently incapable of doing anything in a less-than-comprehensive manner. And honestly, more than 4,500 words seems like a good size for a column just days...