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With six weeks of college basketball and the first leg of international schedules around the globe now in the rearview, there’s been ample time to watch games and form opinions, and thus, lo and behold, here’s this season’s first Big Board. Georgia’s Anthony Edwards began the year at No. 1 in the mock draft, and remains the top overall prospect, with contenders LaMelo Ball and James Wiseman behind him in that order, and the big picture getting murky rather quickly after that.
The general attitude around the league is that the shape of this draft can best be classified as flat—there’s not a whole lot differentiating one prospect from another, and the drop-off in bankable NBA talent takes place relatively quickly in the draft in the minds of most.