With two days left, Tony Bradley is squarely on the draft bubble.

Heading into the official NBA draft Thursday night, mock draft boards appear everywhere. There are a few consistencies involving UNC and ACC players, but Tony Bradley’s fate is not among them. Remember the big difference being selected in the first round, among the top 30 picks; those kids get guaranteed contracts with the teams that draft them.

The eight ACC players who are consensus among all the draft boards as first rounders are Carolina’s Justin Jackson, Dukies Jayson Tatum, Luke Kennard and Harry Giles, N.C. State’s Dennis Smith, Wake Forest’s John Collins, FSU’s Jonathan Isaac, and Louisville’s Donovan Mitchell. Bradley and Syracuse big man Tyler Lydon appear in the first round of some mock boards, second rounders on others.

The most consistent local pick of interest is Tatum, who according to these amateur experts will be selected from No. 4 by the Phoenix Suns to No. 7 by the Minnesota Timberwolves. Only one board has the 6-8 swing man going higher – to the Celtics with the No. 3 pick they received from Philadelphia in exchange for the first pick in the only trade announced so far.

Luke Kennard will go anywhere from No. 10 to the Sacramento Kings to 16th with the Chicago Bulls. Harry Giles continues moving up in the mock drafts, despite his tender knees, cited somewhere between the 15th and 26th picks. Frank Jackson was on some first-round boards a week ago, but has fallen to the second round since.

Justin Jackson is projected as high as No. 13 and as low as 21st, a definite first round selection but where he lands meaning a million dollars more or less for the ACC Player of the Year and All-American. Bradley and his family will be on pins and needles, teetering at the bottom of the first round or the very top of the second. One mock board has Bradley going No. 28 to the Lakers, another at No. 29 to the Spurs and a third at No. 31 to the Atlanta Hawks – crossing over to the first pick in round two.

Also affecting Bradley’s fate are three European players who have moved into first-round projections at virtually the last minute after being scouted by various NBA teams as secret weapons. You will know who they are by not recognizing their names when they are called. One of them may very well cost Bradley first-round money.

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