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The Most Interesting — And Surprising — Takeaways From The NBA Draft

When NBA commissioner Adam Silver took the stage Thursday, the first names he called were generational athlete Zion Williamson and pass-and-attack wizard Ja Morant. The draft, it seemed, was appropriately going chalk. Until it didn’t. The Duke Blue Devils became the second team in the modern draft era to produce three Top-10 picks, while the […]

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The 2019 NBA Draft Class Is Short (By Basketball Standards)

A year after an NBA draft dominated by very large human beings, the draft class to be announced Thursday night should look a lot … shorter. Big men are obviously still alive and well in the NBA, but this class illustrates that the league now focuses on positional flexibility and finds itself firmly rooted in […]

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