CHICAGO – What unfolds over these next several days here is proof of the value of the draft.
NBA teams send two handfuls or more of their employees here for a week to get information that amounts to the tip of an iceberg of data they already possess on the nearly six dozen draft-eligible players invited to the draft combine.
They’ve already got thick dossiers of info on those players and scores more that have been exhaustively scouted on six continents – and, probably, some team looking for an edge has a scout somewhere in Antarctica right now looking for somebody with nimble footwork or 3-point range.