June 25, 2013

WASHINGTON - From Dikembe Mutombo and Alonzo Mourning to Allen Iverson and Othella Harrington and now from Jeff Green to Roy Hibbert and Greg Monroe, the legacy of the Georgetown men's basketball players in the National Basketball Association has been very strong. On Thursday night, when the NBA holds its annual draft at Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, N.Y., that legacy will no doubt be extended when sophomore All-American Otto Porter Jr. is among the top picks in the draft.

Those names are among the reasons that Georgetown was ranked No. 2 in ESPN.com's "Path to the Draft" rankings, leading up to this week's NBA Draft.

Over the course of the last month, ESPN.com has ranked the top-20 schools that have "produced the best pros in the modern draft era (since 1989, when the draft went from seven to two rounds)."

Click here to read the full article - http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketballnation/tag/_/name/path-to-the-draft-2013.

ESPN.com's Eamonn Brennan rated the top-five Georgetown NBA Draftees since 1989, with Iverson (selected No. 1 in 1996), followed by Mourning (1992), Mutombo (1991), Hibbert (2008) and Monroe (2010) in the lineup and Green (2007) as the Sixth Man.

"But the Hoyas deserve this position," Brennan wrote. "This is a stacked assembly that surpasses any group we've mentioned so far. ... It's simple. Georgetown has arguably produced the most impressive collection of talent since the 1989 draft."