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The latest stories on top prospects like Greg Oden, Kevin Durant, and more!

This season’s edition of the Kansas Jayhawks’ is a NBA scout’s dream come true. Go to a Jayhawks’ game and it’s one stop shopping - you can scout six potential NBA players on their roster alone (Arthur, Chalmers, Collins, Kaun, Rush & Wright). North Carolina, Florida and Ohio State are just a few of the other teams with rosters stacked with pro prospects this season. Over the past two decades there have been a handful of NCAA teams that have had similiarly pro packed rosters. Here are the top five in terms of quality and quantity:

This is not a mock draft…

This is not based on projections or team needs…

No, the following list is comprised of the top ten prospects currently playing at the collegiate level. This list will evolve throughout the season as new information about each player becomes apparent. We will learn more and more about these elite talents as certain strengths are realized and even more weaknesses are exposed…

TOP TEN NBA PROSPECTS (previous rankings are in parentheses)

1. (1.) Greg Oden (Ohio State, C, 7-0, Fr.)
Why He’s Adam’s #1 Prospect:
He’s too good to be true. Oden isn’t just huge, he’s agile and explosive. And with his ever-developing left-hand, he’s surprisingly skilled on the low blocks. Forget college, right now there are only a handful of centers in the NBA who could hang with him.

This is not a mock draft…

This is not based on projections or team needs…

No, the following list is comprised of the top ten prospects currently playing at the collegiate level. This list will evolve throughout the season as new information about each player becomes apparent. We will learn more and more about these elite talents as certain strengths are realized and even more weaknesses are exposed…

1. Greg Oden (Ohio State, C, 7-0, Fr.)
Why He’s Adam’s #1 Prospect:
He’s too good to be true. Oden isn’t just huge, he’s agile and explosive. And with his ever-developing left-hand, he’s surprisingly skilled on the low blocks. Forget college, right now there are only a handful of centers in the NBA who could hang with him.

Kevin Durant (Texas)

Tyler Hansbrough (UNC)

Spencer Hawes (Washington)

Josh McRoberts (Duke)

Joakim Noah (Florida)

Greg Oden (OSU)

Jeff Fox looks at the top undrafted college players with the best chance of making NBA rosters this year.

Dwight Howard, fresh off representing his country in the FIBA World Championships, and following a season in which he led the NBA in total rebounds, is still almost three months shy of his 21^st birthday. LeBron James, who seemingly has been the NBA’s marquee star for years, will turn 22 in December.  Even 8-time All Star Kobe Bryant, a veteran by comparison, is two years shy of 30. Judging by that, it certainly appears that the NBA is getting younger. But thanks to a new NBA rule, the days of teenage NBA success may be a thing of the past.

 

While the FIBA rankings at the end of the World Championships still state that the U.S. is the top team in the world, that is hardly the case.  After leaving Japan with only a bronze medal to show for their efforts, this will be the third straight World Championships in which the States has yet to back up their claim as the superior basketball country.  The commonly used expression “that the rest of the world has caught up to the U.S.” on the basketball court is dead wrong – the rest of the world has PASSED the U.S. on the court.

 

FIBA World Championships Preview

After a brief summer hiatus, the big boys of the basketball world will be back to work starting this weekend in Japan at the FIBA World Championships.  The U.S., Argentina, Spain and France are expected to be the front-runners for the medal podium due to their veteran, NBA loaded rosters.  The days of college kids representing countries in these events are long gone – however, that doesn’t mean that a few lucky youngsters won’t crack their respective homeland’s rosters.