{"id":34196,"date":"2022-06-02T22:21:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/grading-the-nba-draft-deadline-stay-or-go-decisions\/"},"modified":"2022-06-02T22:21:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-02T22:21:19","slug":"grading-the-nba-draft-deadline-stay-or-go-decisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/grading-the-nba-draft-deadline-stay-or-go-decisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Grading the NBA Draft deadline stay-or-go decisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">&#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The 2022 NBA Draft withdrawal deadline expired on Wednesday night when the clock struck midnight in the eastern timezone.  There were 240 Division I players who entered the Draft process this off-season and as of this morning, 131 decided to see it through to the end.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Amongst the field were some of the best players in all of college basketball last season that had some major impacts on the college landscape for the upcoming 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>There were a lot of interesting cases in this Draft with its fair share of controversial decisions.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s day and age, it&#8217;s popular to talk about &#8220;betting on yourself&#8221;.  It&#8217;s a nice sentiment that often gets misunderstood that you should take a big risk when in some cases, betting on yourself means looking beyond the short-term and coming back to do something you don&#8217;t like (ie be in school), develop and then reap the long-term benefits that follow (ie a guaranteed contract).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Frankly, in today&#8217;s NIL world there has never been less pressure to take a big risk on getting pro-level money because, with what we have seen, some of these guys who &#8220;bet on themselves&#8221; by returning to school will make more both in the short-term and long-term than those who stayed in the Draft.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>247Sports&#8217; Director of Scouting, Adam Finskelstein, and a National Analyst, Travis Branham, graded out some of the decisions of those who stayed and left.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n&#13;\n    <\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-4\">\n    if(typeof fbq === 'undefined') {\n        !function(f,b,e,v,n,t,s){if(f.fbq)return;n=f.fbq=function(){n.callMethod?\n        n.callMethod.apply(n,arguments):n.queue.push(arguments)};if(!f._fbq)f._fbq=n;\n        n.push=n;n.loaded=!0;n.version='2.0';n.queue=[];t=b.createElement(e);t.defer=1;\n        t.src=v;s=b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];s.parentNode.insertBefore(t,s)}(window,\n        document,'script','https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n        fbq('init', '320233411816140');\n        fbq('init', '1575186632756631');\n        fbq('track', 'PageView');\n    }\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; The 2022 NBA Draft withdrawal deadline expired on Wednesday night when the clock struck midnight in the eastern timezone. There were 240 Division I players who entered the Draft process this off-season and as of this morning, 131 decided to see it through to the end. &#13; Amongst the field were &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/grading-the-nba-draft-deadline-stay-or-go-decisions\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Grading the NBA Draft deadline stay-or-go decisions<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/s3media.247sports.com\/Uploads\/Assets\/591\/24\/11024591.jpg?fit=bounds&crop=1200:630,offset-y0.50&width=1200&height=630","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}