2019 NBA Draft Big Board heading into March Madness

March Madness is finally here. What NCAA prospects should you be watching as you look toward the 2019 NBA Draft?

With major conference tournaments tipping off, it’s a good time to pull back the curtains and take a look at our first 2019 NBA Draft big board for the season. Everything is still very fluid at this point. Though the regular season is in the books, many players still have four to eight high-level games to evaluate, and games at the end of the year are more valuable as we see how players have progressed over the season. There are also workouts, interviews, and more to come, so plenty can still change right up until draft day.

Still, it’s important to know where we’re starting from — though even that is a misnomer since this board changes slightly pretty much every day and has for three straight months. Hopefully this gives you somewhere to start as you begin to think about the draft and look at guys in March Madness over the next month. The further down the list, the messier it gets, and names are fluid within each tier and more easily movable the further down you scroll. That’s just how this works. Starting at Tier V, outside of my top 10, I don’t even really rank the tiers within themselves. There’s still plenty of time to do that later.

Alright, enough preamble. Let’s get to Zion and everyone else.

Much has already been said about Zion, and plenty more will be written in the days to come. Let’s keep it very simple here: Zion is the number one pick, and any general manager that does something otherwise is a fireable offense.

Doncic, Jokic, Steph, Harden, Giannis, LeBron, Towns, Brow, PG, Embiid, Simmons, Dame… by my quick scan, those are the only 12 assets I’d even consider wanting more than Zion on a four-year rookie deal, and I probably wouldn’t take some of them over him. That makes the #1 pick at worst a top-15 asset in the NBA. Probably better. There hasn’t been as important a draft lottery since 2003, aka LeBron. May 14 will change the…

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