Memphis freshman James Wiseman's NCAA eligibility case is at the center of college basketball but it shouldn't impact his NBA draft stock.
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Believe it or not, James Wiseman played basketball on Tuesday, and while the game was not necessarily played well, that it took place with him in it was news unto itself. For the unindoctrinated, Memphis’s behemoth freshman center has been widely viewed as a candidate for the No. 1 pick in the 2020 NBA draft; he has also been ruled “likely ineligible” by the NCAA after it was found that Penny Hardaway helped pay for Wiseman’s family to move from Nashville to Memphis, and thus to play for the high school team he coached in 2017.