Five intriguing players to watch at the PK85 tournament.
A huge contingent of NBA executives and scouts will descend on Portland this week for the Nike-sponsored PK85 tournament. This year’s primary early-season college basketball extravaganza includes 16 teams, two different brackets in honor of company founder Phil Knight’s 85th birthday and, naturally, a wealth of future NBA players who will have a say in how the 2023 draft goes down. Due to the fact there’s not much else competing for teams’ attention during Thanksgiving week—many high-level decision-makers will head directly to Portland from the Maui Invitational—the PK85 is quite arguably the biggest scouting event of the season.