This is either getting more attention than it deserves or not getting the attention it warrants. I honestly don’t know what to think and I suppose it depends on the side of the fence you choose when it comes to drafts, agents and WVU.

Nevertheless, Bill Neff, the New York-based agent for WVU’s Kevin Jones, the guy who has known KJ since sixth grade and was the one KJ wanted as representation in this pre-draft process, says a team promises to draft his client Thursday night.

“There is a team picking in the first round that has told us point blank that they are committed to drafting him,” Neff said. “Now, what does that mean? Does that mean they’ll draft him in their place? Does that mean they’ll trade down to draft him somewhere else, which can happen? If they think they can get you at 30, they can drop down and do that. They could drop down into the second round if that’s where they think they can get him.

“So I don’t know and I can’t control that. What I do know is that a team has told us, ‘He’s our guy.’ We’re not certain they’ll draft him where they are, but they told us that Kevin’s their guy.”

This sounds a little like Bruce Irvin and his first-round guarantee … and weren’t we all skeptics right up until the moment we came to after falling off the sofa and hitting our heads on the coffee table? But there’s a difference, of course, between the two leagues and their drafts.

The NBA is less about niches and more about potential and, frankly, KJ has neither. He’s a very good rebounder, but so, too, are others and those others can do other things and aren’t projected to hit a ceiling as soon as KJ. Bruce had a desired skill and an elite reputation and the thought was that with professional level coaching he would explode.

So what to think of this?

Is a team lying to Neff as a way to disguise its true intentions? I highly doubt that. No offense to KJ, but he’s not worth that trouble. He’s not a lottery pick or even a commonly considered first-round player and I can’t believe a team is sending off smoke screens with a headband.

There’s also this flash on the periphery that’s impossible to ignore: KJ was generating almost no buzz and a rather plain, albeit very productive, player was probably on his way to getting overlooked in the final days of revisiting and reconsidering prospects. Suddenly, a team promises to pick him and you imagine what that does to other scouts and decision makers, some of which may have been thinking about KJ and now may have to think differently.

So you wonder, honestly, if this isn’t a tactic to get KJ on the top of the minds of many going their last lap in the talent pool. And maybe it works. I don’t think we’d be shocked on the Bruce level if KJ went late in the first round. If not, we certainly wouldn’t be shocked if he went in the second, and doesn’t the above quote from Neff cover all the bases? He’s all but immunized.

But let’s do what we probably want to do and just believe the guy. Twice before a team has promised Neff it would take a client and twice before that team has done what it promised.

So who is this team?

Well, KJ has worked out for Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Golden State, Indiana, the Los Angeles Lakers, Miami, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Orlando, Sacramento and San Antonio. Has to be one of them, right? No way a team makes the promises without working him out first.

Scratch San Antonio and Los Angeles off the list. They don’t have a first round pick.

Now we have Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Golden State, Indiana Miami, Memphis, Oklahoma City, Orlando and Sacramento.

Boston, Cleveland and Golden State have have two first-round picks. Boston picks once again in the second round and Cleveland and Golden State have two picks in the second round.

They would seem more likely to pull the trigger on a promise because they have more assurances to offer whereas Chicago, Indiana, Memphis, Miami and Oklahoma City don’t pick in the second round — but, hmm, they’re all picking between Nos. 25 and 29. Orlando and Dallas would land in the middle because they both have one pick in both rounds.

So the odds are that Cleveland and Golden State are most likely with four picks and Boston isn’t far behind with three picks. Orlando and Dallas follow with their two picks and Chicago, Indiana, Memphis, Miami and Oklahoma City could use their only pick.

What we’re left with is 10 of the 30 teams that may have promised to take KJ. We can only guess, to be honest, because Cleveland and Golden State probably doesn’t need or want four rookies — Boston might need three players with its roster — and one of those teams without a second-round pick might want to take a pick off Cleveland’s or Golden State’s or even Boston’s hands.

My guess — and again, assuming this is all true — is one of those five teams without a second-round pick is going after KJ. Those are playoff teams and contenders and they don’t need an impact guy or a guaranteed contract, in case they can get somebody in free agancy before or during the season that puts them over the top.

They instead want a guy they won’t have to worry about, either professionally or contractually, who can make practices better and will be able to knock out a few minutes and do something positive when needed.