Five NBA Draft prospects destined to be taken too low; NC State and LSU are still fighting over Will Wade
Eye On College Basketball
CBS Sports
4.6 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 10 June 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander discuss the 2026 NBA Draft prospects that fall into the same category as Jalen Brunson: very good college players with long careers that will fall too far in the draft.
(0:00) Intro + Jalen Brunson is today’s inspiration
(1:30) Brunson in college and the idea of drafting older players
(7:35) Player 1
(11:30) Player 2
(18:30) Player 3
(24:00) Player 4
(31:15) Player 5
(39:00) The Will Wade-LSU-NC State story is not quite over
(45:00) John Calipari’s letter
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| 0:00.0 | Hey there, I am Gary Parrish. |
| 0:16.2 | Welcome back to CBS Sports. |
| 0:17.9 | I own college basketball podcast where we sometimes discuss camel fighting. |
| 0:21.9 | Dodo birds and leaky black. |
| 0:23.7 | Matt Norlander is here with me. |
| 0:25.4 | If you're watching on YouTube, honor Brandon Davy, smash the like button. |
| 0:29.0 | And if you haven't yet subscribed to the Ion College basketball podcast, |
| 0:32.0 | please also do that wherever you listen to pods like Spotify and Apple. |
| 0:36.2 | Let's get into it. |
| 0:37.2 | This is a slow time of the year in our |
| 0:39.8 | sport until some more players get busted gambling. But tonight is game four of the NBA finals. |
| 0:46.1 | And using that as a hook, my buddy Norlander had the following idea. As you know, Jalen Brunson. |
| 0:51.7 | He's the star of the Knicks. He got mushed by Wimby the other night. |
| 0:55.2 | That wasn't great. |
| 0:56.1 | Still, he's now a star in the NBA after previously being a star in college |
| 1:01.7 | and even earlier than that being a star in high school. |
| 1:04.7 | He was the male athlete of the year in high school, |
| 1:07.3 | national player of the year in college. |
| 1:09.1 | And he's a three-time all-MBA player at this level |
| 1:12.8 | after being picked 33rd overall in the 2018 NBA draft. So here's the question. |
| 1:18.8 | Norlander, let's come up with five players in this draft. Yeah. |
| 1:23.2 | Who established themselves over multiple years as college stars, just like Jalen Brunson once did at |
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