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Didn't see this posted (pre draft):

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2022 NBA Draft profile: After flameout at Milwaukee, Patrick Baldwin Jr. is this year's top wild-card prospect

What's next for the former No. 1 player in his class after he picked Dad over Duke, before injuries made his one season an afterthought?
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CBS Sports spoke with a half-dozen NBA sources for this story. Baldwin's highest conceivable draft slot from any of those sources: 18th. The lowest was 45th. That's a swath few other players in this draft can claim. Baldwin will enter draft night having no true idea of where he'll be taken or how long he'll have to wait. (CBS Sports' Kyle Boone projects Baldwin Jr. at No. 20 in his latest mock draft)
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There was once a time when he looked the part in just about every game he played in throughout his first three years of high school. Then the ankle injury happened in December 2020 and things haven't been the same since.

"He doesn't make excuses for anything," said Mark Bartelstein, Baldwin's agent. "It's pretty cool. (He) takes ownership of everything."
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Baldwin has been asked by every team he's met with if he regrets any parts of his decision to play at Milwaukee. The answer never waivers: No. Not a thing.

"At the time, I think it was the right decision," he said. "And in the same breath, I can say I could never predict that I was going to go through what I went through this year with all the various injuries and different factors. But yeah, I think back. I made the right decision."

There was also the private battle the family was going through: Shawn Baldwin, Patrick's mother, was diagnosed with breast cancer in the spring of 2021. The family seldom, if ever, talked about this publicly. The Baldwins withheld the news from their son until the summer, when he was through competing for Team USA in international competition. Baldwin Sr. said the family is at peace with this part of their story being out, because it's a significant part of his son's journey and growing up in the past year.
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The feedback he's been getting in the past two weeks revolves around two primary takeaways: 1) His competitiveness is irrepressible. This was questioned after his season at Milwaukee, but Baldwin has assuaged the concerns of some since the combine. And 2) The ease in which the game comes to him. Decision-making, feel, being a coach's son has helped his stock — as much as it can be in these settings.
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