Here’s a fun conversation-starter from ESPN: Who’s the best NBA draft prospect on each top 25 team?

This is useful fodder for a few reasons. First and foremost, the team with the best players typically wins … and that’s not a journalist or a fan thing. I’ve heard Bob Huggins say it a bunch. So if you get into the top 25 and the top of the top 25, you’re going to see teams with a few candidates.

Now, is West Virginia an outlier? Does it always, or ever, have an NBA player or a few NBA players? But there are the Mountaineers, frequently in the rankings. They’re in preseason top 25s now and thus in this conversation, which is the second appealing point. Huggins does well with what he has. He doesn’t have a crystal clear NBA prospect, but there are a few possibilities, and that means you have to think for a moment about who is the leading candidate.

So transition to the topic, and answer aloud who you think is WVU’s best NBA prospect. Does it match ESPN’s pick, and do you agree with its selection?

(Also: The Big 12 has one team above WVU. It’s Kansas, of course, but if this is to be a bounce-back year for the  Mountaineers without Jon Holton, Jaysean Paige and Devin Williams, it’s no doubt comforting for you to know most of the rest of the league will be in a similar state.)