It was only two games into the Oregon Ducks men's basketball season and already, those with connections to Troy Brown Jr. were reaching out to the NBA.
The five-star true freshman scored 18 points against Coppin State in the season opener. Then he got 17 against Prairie View. And so the handlers, with two games of performance in the books, wanted to know where the league scouts thought would the Ducks freshman would go in the NBA Draft.
Seen enough?
I haven't. The scouts haven't. But that's sort of where we are. An NBA general manager told me on Tuesday, "That's very common, actually," of anxious handlers wanting to take an early temperature.