Unless you own ear plugs, can't read and live under one very large rock, the rampant rumors are impossible to ignore.

It does not matter whether you are a prospective NBA player or one of the guys deciding who will and who will not be selected when the league holds it annual draft Thursday.

Everyone hears them, one way or another.

On the Internet. On the radio. In the newspaper. At the gym. Whispered into one man's ear from the mouth of another. Shouted from a mountaintop.