With just days until the NBA Draft, Australian sports agent Daniel Moldovan's mobile phone is ringing incessantly with calls from inquisitive teams.
The Los Angeles-based former Sydneysider represents two of Australia's top three prospects, Jonah Bolden and Isaac Humphries, in Thursday's (Friday 9am AEST) draft at Brooklyn's Barclay Center.
He compares the late jockeying to a game of high-stakes poker, with executives from the NBA's 30 teams seeking late information to deliver an advantage.
"It has been a crazy month and it has reached its crescendo," Moldovan told AAP on Monday.
"The phones are burning hot.
"Everybody is positioning, maneuvering, looking for intel and trying to figure out what other teams are wanting to do."
Bolden, Humphries and the third top Australian prospect, Mangok Mathiang, enter the draft after taking different journeys.
Bolden, a 21-year-old, 208cm tall Melbourne-born rim-rattling power forward has a similar family history to recent Australian-born top five draft picks - Ben Simmons, Dante Exum and Kyrie Irving.
His father, Bruce Bolden, is a US professional basketball player who moved to Australia to play in the NBL, remained in the league for 17 years and now is watching his son pursue an NBA career.
Bolden spent an underwhelming two years at UCLA before turning professional and, in what could be a masterstroke, played a season for Serbia's FMP Beograd in the Adriatic League.
Humphries, a 19-year-old 213cm forward-centre, took the traditional route to the NBA with two years at the elite University of Kentucky following his stint at the Australian Institute of Sport.
The 24-year-old, 208cm tall Mathiang is a Sudanese refugee who as a child with his family fled to Australia, dabbled in Aussie rules but then headed to the US and spent four years under coaching great Rick Pitino at the University of Louisville.
The draft is held over two rounds, with 30 players selected each round.
Bolden is Australia's top prospect and expected to be a late first round or early second round selection.
"Every single NBA team has travelled to see him in person in the last two months," Moldovan said.
Humphries and Mathiang could go in the second round, but if not will almost certainly be picked as undrafted free agents and given opportunities to impress in the NBA's Summer League.
"Jonah is very likely to get drafted and Isaac we'll kind of see what happens on the day, but irrespective they will have long NBA careers regardless of how they get there," Moldovan said.
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