The Draftables is the only exhaustive list of college basketball players hoping to make it to the NBA.

The only comprehensive list of collegiate basketball players aspiring to the NBA is The Draftables. Its purpose was to provide a different perspective from the usual mock drafts, which don’t always accurately represent what goes on inside NBA front offices.

Most front offices handle the process in phases, as opposed to mock drafts, which rank eligible candidates in the order that they will be picked (often a year or more before the selection takes place).

They will make an effort to identify each candidate they wish to assess at the start of the season. Those preliminary assessments will group prospects into groups, usually with some relationship to lottery, first- and second-round picks, and maybe with names for pre-draft camps such as the Portsmouth Invitation or future drafts.

While no two front offices are totally the same, most don’t begin to rank prospects until after the first of the year. Some even wait until the majority of the college season is over to start the process. Every part of the process — from the initial list to the categorization of prospects, to the rankings — is fluid. It remains that way as new information comes available leading up to the draft in June.

Each volume of The Draftables is designed to mirror those different stages in the process. Vol. 1 came out in the opening weeks of the season and it included every prospect we believed to be on the NBA radar that point. This second volume provides an initial grouping of the prospects who are currently on our board, but it’s still organized by team so any fan can quickly look up the NBA prospects playing in any college game they might be watching.

This rendition also includes prospects from G League Ignite and various international leagues for the first time, making this a true list of every prospect on the NBA radar.

Right now, we’re going to limit the categories for the prospects to potential lottery picks, first-rounders and second-rounders/two-way candidates. Because this year’s draft is wide-open, there are more candidates for each category then there are actual spots. In fact, there are currently 20 listed potential lottery picks and another 45 potential first-rounders at this point. That combined list of 65 players is obviously much larger than the actual number of 30 first-round spots. It’s also larger than the total number of 58 picks in both rounds. In total, there are currently 178 players listed.