

The Bears beat fellow 1-seed Gonzaga in the National Championship game to win their first title in program history.īack on May 30, Butler announced on social media that he would be entering his name into the NBA Draft class for this upcoming draft. Then the postseason got even better, as the Bears earned a 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament and rolled into the National Championship game. In Scott Drew’s 18th season as the head coach at Baylor, he took his team to a 21-1 record in the regular season and won the Big 12 regular season title, which was the first conference title since 1950. It also came in Baylor’s best season as a program in the school’s history. Butler averaged career-highs in points (16.7 points per game), rebounds (3.3 rebounds per game) and assists (4.8 assists per game). But Butler is not allowed to do the on-court elements of the predraft process.Ī four-star prospect coming out of Riverside Academy in Baylor’s 2018 recruiting class, Butler averaged double-digits all three years at Baylor but had the best year of his career in 2020-21. According to Charania, t he panel consists of three physicians - one appointed by the league, one by the players association and the third appointed by the first two physicians.īutler, who is projected to be a first-round pick in the 2021 NBA Draft, according to ESPN, can do off-court activities like virtual team interviews, meetings and medical exams, per Charania. The NBA has referred former Baylor guard Jared Butler to a Fitness-To-Play Panel and Butler is not permitted to play or practice in the NBA until he is cleared, according to a report from Stadium NBA insider Shams Charania.
