As the top analyst for ESPN’s coverage of the 2020 NBA draft, Jay Bilas has been studying the best available prospects for months.
So who better than Bilas — the current Charlotte resident and former Duke basketball player — to evaluate the players most likely to go to the Charlotte Hornets with the No. 3 overall pick they now hold?
In our recent phone interview, I asked Bilas to give me his list of the best half-dozen players in this draft — in order — and to provide his brief scouting report on each. He graciously complied, then added in a bonus opinion that there will be a college basketball season and NCAA tournament in 2020-21 (Bilas believes the field might shrink to 32 teams, however, and that “bubbles” will be widely utilized to get the season completed).