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Pac-12 basketball: Damage assessment from the NBA Draft’s early-entry deadline

The deadline for early-entry candidates to declare for the NBA Draft has come and gone. On the surface, the Pac-12 landscape looks scorched.

All the elite freshmen declared, every last one of them, as did the vast majority of top sophomores and juniors.

In total, 15 early entries are in the draft, either for good or to evaluate their options.

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The list includes the obvious (Arizona’s Nico Mannion, Washington’s Isaiah Stewart, USC’s Onyeka Okongwu) and the not-so-obvious (ASU’s Romello Wright, Oregon State’s Ethan Thompson and Utah’s Both Gach).

Perhaps more meaningful:

Nine of the 10 players named first-team all-conference in 2019-20 are currently in the draft.