
One of the biggest stories in college basketball right now is James Nnaji, Baylor's newest recruit, a 21-year old from Nigeria who has been playing professional basketball since 2021 and who was drafted by the Detroit Pistons in the second round of the 2023 NBA draft.
Nnaji has not played in the NBA, but he has had his rights traded twice since he was drafted. That, combined with the aforementioned professional basketball stints in EuroLeague, Spain's Liga ACB and Turkey's Basketball Super League, would make Nnaji joining Baylor a bit of a hot topic, even if he wasn't doing it in the middle of a season.