Three basketball players from the Mountain West received invites to the 2025 NBA Combine this year, an event that begins today in Chicago and goes through next Sunday. It’s the most invites from the conference since 2020, which had an expanded pool of players participate in a virtual combine as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. Colorado State wing Nique Clifford, San Diego State wing Myles Byrd and Nevada jumbo-guard Kobe Sanders will all showcase their skills for NBA scouts this week. Each of those three (plus a few other players who began their careers at Mountain West schools) have a range of possibilities for potential draft spot and prospects for how their careers may fare. We’ll take a look at each for all of the prospects covered here. The “Consensus Big Board” referenced for each player comes from rookiescale.com. It is, as the website explains (and in more detail), a compilation of media draft content that provides an overall view of where prospects are ranked by the whole of those who follow the NBA Draft process closely. Nique Clifford (Colorado State) Consensus Big Board Rank: 20th Draft Day Age: 23.4 Height: 6’5″ Weight: 199 Clifford will hear his name called from the podium