The process of evaluating the 2014 NBA draft has already started. Many of the players drafted there will be prospects we've been watching for four or five years already. Some new names will pop up that aren't even in our database yet. Some of them will be drafted in next year's lottery. That's what makes this fun.
We'll be taking a couple of days off and then moving full steam ahead with our 2014 coverage. First up is the Under-19 World Championship in Prague, which we'll cover starting Monday through the Finals.
Then it's on to the Orlando and Las Vegas Summer leagues, to watch the 2013 draft class take its first steps as NBA players.
In between those summer leagues, we'll take a quick detour to cover the EYBL Finals at the Nike Peach Jam in North Augusta, South Carolina, where many of the best high school prospects in America will compete for the title of best AAU team on the Nike circuit.
The adidas Nations in Los Angeles in early August will give us another chance to take a look at some of the top college, high school and international prospects before releasing our 2015 mock draft.
We'll also attend the Under Armor Elite 24 which is returning to New York City in late August.
Throughout September and October we will publish our annual look at the top returning college prospects in each of the major conferences as well as the non-BCS conference standouts, beginning the process of populating our database with 100+ scouting reports which will form the framework of our 2014 draft coverage.
USA Basketball is also conducting a Developmental National Team Mini-Camp in early October which will reportedly bring together prospects for the Nike Hoop Summit and U17/U18 National teams that will compete in the FIBA World and FIBA Americas
Championships next summer.
Make sure you're following us on twitter as a good part of our coverage this summer will be on there. We'll be tracking the Eurobasket in Slovenia closely, as well as the various European Championship (U-16, U-18, U-20) events.
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