INDIANAPOLIS — Tuesday night’s Champions Classic games stood as a sufficiently rousing start to college basketball season, which has come to double as the unofficial commencement of the 2019 NBA draft conversation. Between Duke’s steady thrashing of Kentucky, a promising showing from Kansas against Michigan State, nearly two dozen pro prospects in action as high-ranking league executives lined the stands at Bankers Life Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, there was a lot for everyone to process. One game is never conclusive, much less the first one of the season, but this event has come to hold a bit of added weight in terms of magnified exposure, and how frequently those programs have produced top draft picks over the past half-decade.
Analyzing the Best NBA Draft Prospects From Champions Classic
