Those who make their living evaluating basketball players’ talents and skills presumably have some idea of what they’re talking about. (Most of them, anyway.) That expertise would seem a prerequisite among NBA decision-makers, which is why former players who learned the game at Duke under Mike Krzyzewski (Elton Brand, Trajan Langdon, Mike Dunleavy Jr., Billy King, Danny Ferry) and at North Carolina under Dean Smith (Mitch Kupchak, Michael Jordan, Donnie Walsh) found jobs as NBA general managers.
That grounding presumably comes into play when selecting players for NBA franchises. The league runs America’s most famous professional sports draft…
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