While the first round of the NBA draft unfolded last Thursday night, Iowa State’s Craig Brackins was on a flight from Chicago to Belgrade, Serbia, for the World University Games. He’d spent the previous nine days in Colorado Springs, Colo., first auditioning, then practicing with the 12-man U.S. team, and as he sat in Chicago’s O’Hare airport a few minutes before boarding, with noises of gate agents in the background of his phone call, he sounded a bit torn. “It’s cool that I’m representing the country,” Brackins said, “but at the same time, there’s the thought that, you know, I could be [in the draft] today. It almost seems like I traded that for this.”

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