The 2019 NBA Draft process is heating up unlike any past iteration that I can remember heading into the NBA Draft Combine.



Why? Two reasons. First, this draft is considered fairly wide open in comparison to past iterations. As noted in the last mock draft, it might not be fair to call it a “bad” draft, but there is certainly a lot of opportunity there for players to help themselves in the pre-draft process. Because the class isn’t overflowing with upperclassmen who can come in and potentially help teams immediately, and because even many of the best prospects in this class are younger and flawed in sizable ways, teams don’t necessarily have as much clarity in the specific players they’re targeting.



I’ll give an example of what I’m talking about.



Last year, things were much more set even by the time we reached the NCAA Tournament, let alone a month after the Big Dance. As you’ll see in this 2018 big board I filed...