8 prospects (Trentyn Flowers!) whose stock went up after the 2024 NBA Draft Combine
This was such an important week for prospects and evaluators alike.
Now that the 2024 NBA Draft Combine is officially behind us, there are several players who helped themselves quite a bit while participating in Chicago.
This was the first time that all players were required to participate in the event in order to get drafted. While the scrimmages were important, athletic testing and measurements were also impactful for all evaluators as well.
As such, Jared Dubin offered overall ratings for each prospect who participated in athletic testing (via Last Night In Basketball):
“bSPARQ is an offshoot of SPARQ, which stands for Speed Power Agility Reaction and Quickness, and it is a tool to measure the athleticism of NBA Draft prospects. SPARQ was originally developed by NIKE and some version of it has been used to measure the athleticism of athletes for several years. It is extremely popular among certain NFL teams, for example. By reverse-engineering the formula that was used to measure SPARQ for high-school athletes, we were able to create a similar metric to measure the athleticism of NBA prospects.”
Meanwhile, per Dubin, here is more on how those numbers translate:
“NBA% is the percentile of athleticism a player’s bSPARQ scores at his position. Those position designations are automated based on how a player was listed at the combine.”
Even though the testing is important, scrimmages carry significant weight as well. So with all of that in mind, here were the biggest winners after participation in Chicago: