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4* Fever, Vol. II: The Part About the NBA Draft, Especially in 2016

There were ~4,500 scholarship Division I NCAAB players in 2015. Only ~20 of them were 5* recruits...less than 1%. Here is the second in a three-part series appreciating the overwhelming majority of college basketball players -- the non-5*s.

Watching the NBA Draft, and especially paying attention to the immoderate amount of hype that precedes it, leaves one with the feeling that the annual event is all about the 5* one-and-done prospect. That's not necessarily the case, and especially was not in this past June's Draft, as the data below illustrates.

To compile info, I looked at the top 35 picks in each Draft since 2012.