
Emoni Bates was long considered one of the top basketball prospects in the world, but his outlook in the 2023 NBA Draft doesn’t look great.
When he was just 15 years old, 24/7 Sports speculated that he was perhaps “the best high school prospect” since LeBron James. The following year, Bates became the first high school sophomore to ever win the boys’ Gatorade National Player of the Year award.