With recruiting being one of the few continuing basketball activities at the present time, this seems like a good moment to rank history's best efforts in that area.
By "history," we mean the one-and-done era. The NBA's eligibility rule has been the law of the recruiting land now for 15 years. Plenty long enough, in other words, to compile some rankings.
This ranking of the 25 best classes ever signed is based solely on where players were ranked coming out of high school. It is not -- repeat, not -- a ranking of which classes turned out to be the best in terms of college performance.