Get to know the 2022 NBA draft with exclusive, one-on-one interviews with some intriguing prospects

Learn more about some of the most interesting NBA draft prospects.

The NBA is about to welcome a new generation of pros, and we want to introduce you to some of those players before they take the proverbial leap.

Scouts and executives around the league spend countless hours and seemingly infinite resources identifying the top talent in the draft. Before investing millions of dollars into drafting a prospect, it’s important to know everything about what they can contribute to your organization.

That typically includes advanced scouting reports and in-person pre-draft workouts. But it also includes sit-down interviews, the same way it would for anyone applying for a job.

So our goal was to get to know this draft class by asking them how they describe their games, learning more about their backgrounds, what makes them tick as people, what are their interests off the court, and more.

We had in-depth conversations with several top prospects, and we will continue to update this post as we publish more. With all that in mind, before your favorite team is on the clock on June 23, get to know some of the most interesting players in the 2022 NBA Draft:

NBA draft sleepers: Get to know Murray State sharpshooter Tevin Brown

Tevin Brown was in the same recruiting class as Ja Morant at Murray State. Now, he hopes to join Morant in the NBA.

Tevin Brown was in the same recruiting class as Ja Morant at Murray State. Now, he hopes to join Morant in the NBA and have a pro career of his own.

Brown is flying under the radar on NBA mock drafts. However, his jump shot allows him a chance in the pros. Brown made the All-OVC 1st Team three consecutive years, and he set his conference 3-point record. Brown is one of three players on record in men’s college basketball history ever to record 350 3-pointers, 400 assists, 600 rebounds, and 150 steals during their collegiate careers.

While his game has unique versatility, his specialty is his ability to score as a movement shooter. No D-I player scored more points using off-ball screens, per Synergy. Among prospects who declared for the draft, Brown also ranked among the leaders in transition 3-pointers.

Brown will be 24 years when next season begins, however, which may limit some of his perceived upside. He also needs to add some size to his frame to compete at the next level. But the promise is there: He’s officially been invited to the NBA G League Elite Camp. If he does well there, he could earn a spot at the NBA Draft Combine.

After he left Murray State, Brown flew to Dallas, Texas to train for the NBA draft at Sports Academy. Brown, who was listed at 175 pounds while in college, is specifically working on gaining weight before the draft.

He told For The Win he is eating lots of high-fiber foods, drinking a lot of protein shakes, and spending more time in the weight room than ever before. With more size, Brown projects even better for the pros.

This interview has been condensed and edited for clarity.

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However, while I was there, I also …

However, while I was there, I also noted a freshman guard named Tevin Brown who seemed to have enough size, shooting and athleticism to possibly crack the league. Four years later, Brown is the best player on a Murray State team that ran the table in the Ohio Valley Conference and will likely enter the tournament as a No. 8 or 9 seed. Brown is shooting 38.9 percent from 3 this season on mad volume (13.3 flings per 100 possessions), has shown enough as a passer to be a serviceable secondary playmaker and has athleticism indicators that show he can hang if he moves up a level. He’ll be 24 years old by the time his first NBA season starts, which is a draft-stock killer, but he’ll be in the mix as a second-rounder or two-way guy.

Murray State basketball finally posts final score from loss at Auburn

Peace has been restored.

Faith in the Racers has been restored.

Murray State lost to Auburn 71-58 back on December 22nd. The Racers posted the final score to Twitter only to be ratio’d with deep-friend memes by Tigers fans in the replies, as is tradition. MSU then proceeded to delete the tweet.

By all accounts, this was a severe mistake.

For the next several weeks, any time Murray State tweeted, Auburn fans flooded the replies with even more memes (“you just lost to the ghost of Murray State’s deleted final score tweet,” for example) telling the Racers to post the final score or else the memes would never stop.

In response, MSU started blocking Auburn fans. As would any person that was getting destroyed on Twitter. Then, in the midst of the war, a hero approached.

Tevin Brown, a guard on Murray State’s basketball team, ended the Twitter war by posting the final score.

Auburn fans were overjoyed in the comments. In fact, some fans were so glad that the final was posted, they took to the replies of Tennessee State’s basketball Twitter account, spamming deep-fried images of Tevin Brown after the Racers beat Tigers of TSU handily.

Now, a peace treaty from Murray State basketball’s own account has been offered.

The war between Auburn and Murray State Twitter has officially subsided. We may now move on to spamming Ole Miss on Saturday.

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30 of the best college prospects who won’t be declaring for 2021 NBA draft

A look at the big names you won’t see in this year’s draft.

As we approach the early entry deadline for the 2021 NBA draft, we have a sense of which players are set to return for another year of college basketball.

While scouts are more focused on the draft on July 29, evaluators around the league already have tabs on the best prospects that will continue their time in the NCAA next season.

Note that this list does not include notable names who have declared for the 2020 NBA draft but are just “testing the waters” like Isaiah Jackson, Miles McBride, Marcus Bagley, JT Thor, Matthew Mayer and Jason Preston.

Instead, the following players have either announced that they are returning or are expected to return to their team for the upcoming 2021-22 campaign: