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This is a mistake on his part. This is a loaded draft. His draft stock improves dramatically just by waiting one year.

A lot of scouts no longer view this as a loaded draft after the first few picks. The next two drafts, if the draft rules don't change, are liable to be just as or even more talent rich.

A guy drafted 15 one year has made almost the exact same amount of money as a guy drafted 9th the following year by the time the guy drafted a year earlier has qualified for free agency. Meanwhile, the guy who waited a year and was drafted higher has to wait another year for the megamillions.

There are those few players who might leap from late teens to top 5 and wind up making more by staying a year, but they are very, very rare.

It's still a deep draft, just not as rich in franchise player talent as might have been originally thought. Teams are still apt to get good, useful players but the star power is now questioned after the first few picks.

Just what I read in a few places.

so why is there a non-binding deadline for declaring?

probably not. They are losing both Jones', Miller, and Acy who on average combined to scored half of the Bears' points every game.

There isn't. There is simply a binding deadline (NCAA) for withdrawing if a player has already declared. That such NCAA deadline is before the NBA deadline for actually declaring . . . Well. life is funny that way sometimes when two institutions make their own schedules and care not one whit for the interests of the other.

I would say they are still gonna be ranked in the Top 15, because they still return a ton of experience and talent with Jackson, Heslip, Bello, UCLA-transfer J'mison Morgan who redshirted this year, and F Cory Jefferson. Pierre Jackson I think will be one of the Big-12 POY candidates. Freshmen Isaiah Austin, Ricardo Gathers, and LJ Rose are on the way.