Right around the time you’re getting off work tonight and about 3 hours before half-price shakes at Sonic, the 2016 NBA Draft will begin in earnest and the Broncos have one man clutching his cell phone—James Webb III. JWIII is the ultra-rare early departure from the Boise State basketball program—a program that has precisely zero alums currently among its ranks. In fact, the NBA highlights from Bronco alums in the last 20 years can be summed up pretty succinctly:
Oh, I guess there was also this.
Drink that in. So, Webb getting picked up this evening would not only validate his decision to declare early, but also might validate Boise State basketball—which hasn’t exactly been an NBA factory, like.