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Draft Combine Updates: Friday

May 16th, 2014 at 2:46pm CST by Chuck Myron

We gathered a slew of reports connecting draft prospects with teams yesterday on the first full day of the Chicago draft combine, and we’ll do the same today with this post. The latest updates will be on top as we follow the action throughout.

Alex Kennedy of Basketball Insiders adds the Pistons, Kings and Suns to the list of teams interviewing Noah Vonleh (Twitter link).
The Pistons met with Rodney Hood, Ellis tweets, and the Thunder also met with him, Holmes notes (on Twitter).
Thanasis Antetokounmpo sat down with the Nets, Knicks, Pacers, Cavs, Wizards and Pelicans, according to Woelfel (Twitter link).

2:00pm updates:

The Pistons have met with Smart and Zach LaVine, according to Vince Ellis of the Detroit Free Press and Keith Langlois of Pistons.com, respectively (Twitter links).
Smart is also among the players interviewing with the Celtics tonight, according to Gary Washburn of the Boston Globe, and the C’s spoke with Aaron Gordon, too, fellow Globe scribe Baxter Holmes notes (Twitter links).
Gordon also met with the Magic, who are set to meet with James Michael McAdoo, as well, according to Robbins (Twitter links).
Tyler Ennis is meeting with the Bucks today after interviewing with the Bulls on Thursday, as Gery Woelfel of The Journal Times and Nick Friedell of ESPNChicago.com report (Twitter links).
Jarnell Stokes already worked out for the Raptors, according to Wolstat (on Twitter).

12:02pm updates:

Dante Exum‘s interview with the Magic went well, he said, adding that the team would like to bring him to Central Florida for a workout, tweets Josh Robbins of the Orlando Sentinel. Robbins, in a full piece, added Marcus Smart to the list of top prospects who’ve interviewed with the Magic.
Celtics president of basketball operations Danny Ainge expressed a fondness for Smart today in an interview with ESPN’s Andy Katz on the network’s coverage of the combine, as Adam Zagoria of SNY.tv notes (on Twitter).
Gary Harris told Katz he met with the Raptors, Nuggets, Grizzlies and Pistons, as Zagoria once more passes along via Twitter.
The Raptors will interview Jordan Adams today, according to Ryan Wolstat of the Toronto Sun, who says the team also spoke with James Young (Twitter links).
Zagoria adds the Sixers, Spurs, Clippers, Mavs, Nuggets, Warriors and Bulls to the list of teams that Kyle Anderson either met or is slated to meet (Twitter link).
Markel Brown said he’ll talk with the Celtics today, according to A. Sherrod Blakely of CSNNE.com (Twitter link).

Jordan Adams To Enter Draft

April 27th, 2014 at 9:20am CST by Chuck Myron

APRIL 27TH: UCLA coach Steve Alford has confirmed that Adams informed him that he will enter this year’s NBA draft, reports Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com (Twitter link).

APRIL 26TH: Adams has had a change of heart and will enter this year’s draft, as he tells Alex Kennedy of Basketball Insiders (Twitter link). Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports heard from a source earlier this evening that Adams had altered course and had decided to turn pro. Wojnarowski speculates that the decision of Kentucky guards Andrew Harrison and Aaron Harrison to stay in school helped sway Adams, since the absence of the twins thinned the crop of shooting guards in the draft.

APRIL 17TH: UCLA sophomore Jordan Adams will return to school for his junior year instead of entering the 2014 NBA draft, according to Jeff Goodman of ESPN.com. Jon Rothstein of CBSSports.com confirms the news. There’s wide disparity on Adams, the No. 27 prospect in Jonathan Givony’s DraftExpress rankings, while Chad Ford of ESPN.com has him 51st.

Adams entertained the idea of declaring for the draft, Goodman writes, but elected not to follow teammates Kyle Anderson and Zach LaVine to the NBA for now. Adams shared the perimeter with those two, improving from a subpar three-point shooter to a slightly above average one this season as he averaged 17.4 points and 5.3 rebounds. The talented Bruins advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA tournament.

The 19-year-old compiled an impressive 2.6 steals per game, but his defense has otherwise been perhaps his greatest weakness during his college career, so teams will look for improvement in that area between now and the 2015 draft.

Draft Rumors: UCLA, Robinson III, Craft

March 22nd, 2014 at 6:47pm CST by Cray Allred

Coach Steve Alford says NBA scouts have attended 88 of 100 UCLA practices this year, per Myron Medcalf of ESPN.com (Twitter link). Adam Zagoria of SNY.tv tweets that the scouts would presumably be interested in projected first-round picks Kyle Anderson and Zach LaVine, along with Jordan Adams, who is projected as a second round selection. Here’s a roundup of draft rumors:

An NBA scout tells Marc J. Spears of Yahoo! Sports that Michigan’s Glenn Robinson III is a solid late first round pick (Twitter link).
Few front office executives expect Ohio State’s Aaron Craft to be drafted, according to Bob Finnan of The Morning Journal.
Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim tells Zagoria that college players base their decision to enter the draft solely on their expected draft position, not how they performed in the NCAA tournament. “I’m not going to be specific about anybody but my experience is guys look and if they see they fall where they’re favorable [they leave]…If you go 15th in the draft, you’re nothing. You might be out of the league in two years,” said Boeheim. “It used to be a first-round draft pick you had a chance. That’s nothing. Those guys are out of the league. Half the guys taken in the first round the last three years are not even in the league. You gotta be in the top seven, eight, 10 picks to make sure you’re going to be playing in the NBA.”
Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress points out that Boeheim’s estimates are pretty far off (Twitter links). Only 7% of first round picks from the last three years are out of the league today, and the No. 15 pick specifically has produced a good number of high-impact players in recent years.