2022 basketball recruiting

Sponsor note. If you're thinking about starting a small business, you're going to need legal advice. Contracts. A talking potato that whispers inventions into your ear. Richard Hoeg can cover two of those three items.

To be clear: he is a lawyer who is good with law-talking things and contracts. He does not have a talking potato. Do not berate him about giving you the talking potato. It does not exist, and even if it did he would not let you see it. But I want to be clear that it does not exist. The potato does not talk. This is not an acknowledgement of the existence of the potato. I am just saying that whatever potatoes Richard Hoeg has are regular, mute potatoes that do not have dozens of lucrative patents filed.

But he can totally do contracts.

Entrenched now. About that basketball class: it's #1 and as long as everyone shows up on campus it will definitely stick in the top five. Matt has fiddled with 24/7s class projector:

Michigan currently at 68.95 and likely to eclipse 69 w/Diabate/Bufkin due for a bump.

Duke would be at 70.17 assuming they add Baldwin AND Keels.

Kentucky will NOT eclipse 70 with addition of Jaden Hardy OR Hunter Sallis.

Florida State will NOT eclipse 70 with any one signing https://t.co/jDpi8KKoGb

— Endless Motor Sports (@endless_motor) November 9, 2020

As he mentioned, both Diabate and Bufkin have had standout performances recently that should see them improve their composite rankings once the sites issue updates.

Everyone is naturally nervous about the "as long as everyone shows up" clause in the sentence above. Diabate is the kind of obvious NBA unicorn who would be a natural target for this new G League initiative… if that initiative still exists after coronavirus severely dented NBA revenues. Also there were a ton of rumors around Isaiah Todd looking at professional routes. We don't have any such indications about Diabate.

Never say never, of course, but Diabate is French and could have stayed in Europe to play professionally if that was his inclination. Also the dual attractions of Omlette du Fromage guy and Marc-Gregor Campredon, our French photographer, will be powerful lures.

(Pronunciation note: Andrew Kahn says that Diabate's last name is pronounced with a G at the beginning. Think Makhtar N'Diaye.)

[After THE JUMP: sad confirmation of this site's Paye takes]