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2023 Orlando Magic Draft Preview: Ausar Thompson is potential and risk

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The options for the top prospects entering the NBA Draft have never been greater.

This is not the days of the 2000s when players were entering the league straight out of high school only on talent and grainy videotape. The basketball industry has evolved on both sides of the Draft process.

Teams are much more sophisticated in looking at what they need and what will work on an NBA court. Analytics are only as strong as the data they have in front of them, but that way of thinking and evaluating the game has made it easier to pick out which high school prospects will wow and which ones may falter.