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LAS VEGAS — Even without its marquee star, the Players Era Festival provided quite a one-stop shopping event for NBA scouts. Despite the absence of injured Kansas star Darryn Peterson, talent evaluators got a look at least 10 other first-round prospects over the three days of the tournament action, as 18 major-conference programs took part in the event — including eight ranked in the most recent AP Top 25.

Between that and marquee Thanksgiving games for BYU, Duke and North Carolina — the three programs with the best prospects who weren’t playing in Vegas — it seems like a good time to catch up on the state of the draft in general and

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