To be an NBA scout, you need to live and love basketball. Your brain can turn into mush after flying into Austin, Texas one morning to watch a Longhorns practice, driving 20 minute south to Texas A&M's facilities and then shuttling two hours north to check in on Baylor. The league’s top talent evaluators, though, can observe countless hours of often-mundane drills, log multiple player reports into their team’s database, put their head to a pillow and wake up and do it all over the next day. Scouts can spend more than 250 days per year on the road, limited to the confines of squeaky gymnasiums and stuffy hotel rooms.
How NBA Scouts Prepare for the Draft in the Fall
