PORTLAND, Ore. — Folks sitting in small groups spread throughout the Moda Center stands sit watching in search of the next big star.
Nearly every NBA front office dispatched a cadre of scouting personnel to last week’s Nike Hoop Summit to watch a scrimmage between the top 12 high-school stars in the United States against a patchwork team of local hoops stars.
There’s a buzz in the building surrounding the three Duke signees — Dereck Lively II, Dariq Whitehead and Kyle Filipowski. And much of the pregame hype focused on Amari Bailey, the consensus No. 2 recruit in the nation — headed to UCLA.
