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Boo-hoo?
Nah.
Boo, who?
Unfortunately, that’s more like it.
The NBA Draft Combine will be at Wintrust Arena all week, with 78 prospects having been invited to participate. They’ll take medical exams and have their anthropometrics (read: a bevy of body measurements) recorded. They’ll do vertical jumps, sprints and shuttles and throw 185 pounds around on the bench press like it absolutely matters, which it absolutely doesn’t. They’ll go five-on-five in scrimmages and one-on-however-many with teams that want to interview them.
They’ll give it their best in hopes of getting cracks at the NBA life, but Northwestern’s Boo Buie — whose college career was right up there with the best of theirs — won’t be among them.