"In one breath Bryan Colangelo says he thinks he has a handle on what the three teams with the four picks ahead of him are doing.

In the next he uses words like "murkiness" and "deception" to describe the draft board landscape.

Any certainty in the days and hours approaching draft night in any professional sport are about as common as back-to-back solid rebounding efforts from Andrea Bargnani.

The certainty a draft participant like Colangelo is willing to share is rarer still."