One of the great mysteries of the NBA Draft is where highly-ranked prospects go after suffering injuries. A foremost 2019 example will be Bol Bol of the University of Oregon.

The son of former NBA player Manute Bol played just nine games for Oregon last season. His campaign was cut short in December of 2018 by an ankle injury and then a stress fracture in his foot. The highest-rated recruit in Oregon basketball history could have made the Ducks a Final Four team, given their ability to make the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Tournament in his absence.

Bol's focus will now turn to the 2019 NBA Draft and the attempt to fully heal from his injuries. Drafting injured players is a very inexact science, but Bol Bol — who agreed to hire an agent at CAA to represent him as a prospective NBA athlete — probably knows at least some of the stories of the men who have come before him.

The most recent example: Michael Porter from the 2018 NBA Draft.

Porter played a few games for the University of Missouri but similarly suffered an injury which knocked him out for most of the season. Unlike Bol, Porter did play in the NCAA Tournament, but questions did linger for him. Believed to have been a top-six pick before his injury, Porter fell to No. 14 on draft night.

Bol must complete his rehabilitation process and take concrete steps to assure teams he won't be damaged goods. There is a possibility Bol could still be a lottery pick in the 2019 draft, but “clarity” is the last word one would associate with Bol's draft status right now.