Kira Lewis

Kira Lewis Scouting Report

October 31, 2020 Dustin Barnes 0

Lewis, one of the fastest and youngest players in this draft, was highly productive this past season.  Playing 37.6 minutes per outing, the Bama sophomore averaged 18.5 points, 4.8 rebounds, 5.2 assists, and 2.4 combined steals and blocks per game, with shooting splits of .459/.366/.802.  An All-SEC first-team selection, he [ . . . ]

Tyler Hagedorn

Tyler Hagedorn Interview and Highlights

October 30, 2020 Richard C. Harris 0

On October 15, Lee Branscome and I had a very interesting interview with Tyler Hagedorn, a first-team All-Summit selection this past season and a 2020 NBA Draft prospect.  In August, Tyler signed with Buducnost, the premier team in the Montenegrin Basketball League, which also competes in the Adriatic League and [ . . . ]

Tyrese Haliburton

Tyrese Haliburton Scouting Report

October 29, 2020 Lee Branscome 0

In 2018, Tyrese Haliburton arrived in Ames, Iowa as the Gatorade Player of the Year from the state of Wisconsin. He joined a talented roster at Iowa state, headlined by Marial Shayok and Talen Horton-Tucker, two players who would go on to be selected in the 2019 NBA Draft. Coach [ . . . ]

Tyson Ward

Tyson Ward Scouting Report

October 28, 2020 Toyloy Brown III 0

After winning back-to-back Summit League Tournament championships during his junior and senior seasons, Tyson Ward of North Dakota State University (NDSU) has taken his talents to s.Oliver Würzburg of the Basketball Bundesliga (BBL) — Germany’s top division.  Besides the obvious team success, Ward racked up an impressive collection of individual [ . . . ]

Deni Avdija

Warriors’ Needs and Potential Picks

October 21, 2020 Clayton Conover 0

Coming off their worst season since 2001, the Golden State Warriors have completely reset. Ideally, they can jumpstart another multi-year championship run with the help of this year’s draft. Due to their severe lack of wins this past season, they were awarded the second-overall pick in the NBA Draft, though [ . . . ]

Isaac Okoro

2020 Collaborative NBA Mock Draft

October 19, 2020 Richard C. Harris 0

Back in September, members of the Hoops Prospects staff (Lee Branscome, TJ Brown, Riley Millett, and myself) plus two friends of the site (Dustin Barnes and Coleman Klein) got together for the first-ever HP Collaborative NBA Mock Draft.  Each participant represented multiple teams in the draft (see below), and each [ . . . ]

Tyler Hagedorn

Tyler Hagedorn Scouting Report

October 15, 2020 Toyloy Brown III 0

Tyler Hagedorn, from the University of South Dakota, is a front-court player with pro potential, largely due to his three-point shooting and his overall efficiency on the offensive end. This past season for the Coyotes, he made the All-Summit League first team, earned National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) All-District [ . . . ]

Saddiq Bey

Saddiq Bey Scouting Report

October 13, 2020 Lee Branscome 0

NBA-level basketball players don’t always come from a lineage of successful athletes, but it does not hurt your chances to inherit strong genes. Saddiq Bey’s mother was the MVP of the UNC-Charlotte 49ers women’s basketball team for the 1997-98 season, and has always been a positive force in his life. [ . . . ]

Kira Lewis

#NBATwitter Mock Draft

October 12, 2020 Richard C. Harris 0

There are plenty of knowledgable NBA fans who spend hours on Twitter exchanging ideas and debating all sorts of basketball-related issues, including the NBA Draft. To include those fans and make use of their collective intelligence, I began a mock draft under the hashtag #NBATwitter in September. The draft selections [ . . . ]