Trae Young might be the most fascinating prospect in this year's NBA draft.
Young's freshman season at Oklahoma, which saw him lead the NCAA in both scoring and assists per game, was unlike anything we've seen in modern college basketball. (No player had done so since 1983-84, when the NCAA resumed officially tracking assists after doing so two seasons in the early 1950s.)
Nonetheless, Young's small frame has produced skepticism about whether he can translate his offensive success to the NBA and hold up defensively. So the Wayman Tisdale Award winner as USBWA National Freshman of the Year sits eighth in Jonathan Givony's latest mock draft.