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Full 2015 NBA Draft Combine testing results: One of the best vertical leaping classes ever

Andrew Weber-USA TODAY Sports

Tuesday marked the beginning of the 2015 NBA Draft Combine in Chicago, with Wednesday standing as the marquee event as far as fans are concerned - prospects were measured for length, height, wingspan and a host of other anthropometric data.

Check out the full 2015 NBA Draft Combine measurements

That's not to say the rest of the week's activities are meaningless, even if the televised 5-on-5 sessions aren't exactly involved enough for fans to suss out who they want their teams to draft in the lottery.

Over the course of the week, NBA teams have been gathering a plethora of information on 63 of the top prospects in the 2015 draft class. They're conducting interviews, performing medical examinations and in the case of most prospects not certain to be taken in the first round, watching players in an actual 5-on-5 setting, something that hasn't been the case the past few years.

While a lot of that information that teams discover will be kept close to the chest - and released as misinformation ahead of the June 25 draft - the NBA knows that there are prospect hounds out there, and along with televising select events, they release some interesting data to the public. Partial results from shooting tests are available online, as are the far more interesting athletic testing results.

Those athletic testing results - though partially incomplete as of Friday - are as follows, sorted from highest vertical leap to lowest:

PLAYER Pos/Tm Lane Agility Time Shuttle Run Three Quarter Sprint Max Vert/Standing Vert
Pat Connaughton SG/Notre Dame 10.74% 3.08 3.2 44/37.5
Justin Anderson SF/Virginia 11.10% 2.88 3.22 43/38
Keifer Sykes PG/Wisc. Green Bay 10.50% 3.15 3.13 43/34
Marcus Thornton PG/William & Mary 10.96% 2.88 3.02 43/34.5
Ryan Boatright PG/Connecticut 10.79% 3.05 3.26 41/32
Joseph Young SG/Oregon 10.74% 3.11 3.25 40.5/34.5
Norman Powell SG/UCLA 10.76% n/a n/a 40.5/32.5
J.P. Tokoto SF/North Carolina 11.01% 3.2 3.27 40/34.5
Michael Qualls SG/Arkansas 11.88% n/a n/a 39.5/34
Chasson Randle PG/Stanford 10.61% n/a n/a 39.5/33.5
Dez Wells SG/Maryland 10.75% 3.05 3.2 39/31.5
Rondae Hollis-Jefferson SF/Arizona 10.51% 3.19 3.12 38/32
Terry Rozier PG/Louisville 10.88% 2.84 3.15 38/33
Larry Nance Jr. PF-C/Wyoming 10.89% 3.01 3.25 37.5/29
Vince Hunter PF-C/UTEP 11.33% n/a n/a 37.5/33.5
Jordan Mickey PF-C/LSU 11.80% 3.13 3.28 37.5/33
Chris Walker PF-C/Florida 11.32% n/a n/a 37/30.5
Kelly Oubre SF/Kansas 11.10% 3.12 3.32 37/34.5
Richaun Holmes PF-C/Bowling Green 11.37% 3.31 3.32 36/32.5
Brandon Ashley PF-C/Arizona 11.30% 3.35 3.58 35.5/31.5
Cameron Payne PG/Murray State 10.89% 2.93 3.28 35.5/30
Michael Frazier SG/Florida 10.80% 3.02 3.32 35/24
Aaron White PF-C/Iowa 11.62% 3.15 3.38 35/30
Sam Dekker SF/Wisconsin 10.71% 2.96 3.28 34.5/25.5
Branden Dawson PF-C/Michigan State 12.37% 3.53 3.2 34.5/28.5
Devin Booker SG/Kentucky 10.22% n/a 3.28 34.5/27.5
Jarell Martin PF-C/LSU 11.12% n/a 3.27 34.5/28.5
Aaron Harrison SG/Kentucky n/a n/a 3.27 34.5/28.5
Anthony Brown SF/Stanford 11.06% 3.29 3.18 34.5/27.5
George Lucas de Paula PG/Pinheiros 11.38% 3.16 3.45 34/28
Olivier Hanlan PG/Boston College 11.36% 3.12 3.25 34/28
Rashad Vaughn SG/UNLV 11.41% 3.1 3.21 34/28
Corey Hawkins SG/UC-Davis 10.97% n/a 3.51 34/28.5
R.J. Hunter SG/Georgia State 10.97% 2.91 3.26 33.5/27.5
Andrew Harrison PG/Kentucky 11.16% n/a n/a 33/26.5
Tyus Jones PG/Duke 11.89% 2.95 3.32 32.5/26.5
Treveon Graham SF/VCU 11.60% 3.15 3.3 31.5/28.5
Mouhammadou Jaiteh C/Nanterre 12.05% 3.08 3.38 31.5/24.5
Bobby Portis PF-C/Arkansas 11.71% n/a 3.56 31.5/25
T.J. McConnell PG/Arizona 10.84% n/a n/a 31.5/26
Terran Petteway SG/Nebraska 10.96% 3.1 3.32 31/25
Quinn Cook PG/Duke 11.28% 3.41 3.38 31/24.5
Delon Wright PG/Utah 11.21% 3.5 3.29 31/29.5
Jonathan Holmes PF-C/Texas 10.97% n/a n/a 31/25.5
TaShawn Thomas PF-C/Oklahoma 11.69% 3.24 3.47 30.5/26
Tyler Harvey SG/Eastern Wash. 10.52% n/a n/a 28.5/26
Alan Williams PF-C/UC Santa Barbara 12.07% n/a n/a 28.5/25.5
Dakari Johnson C/Kentucky 11.50% n/a 3.62 25/22.5
Montrezl Harrell PF-C/Louisville n/a n/a n/a n/a/n/a
Stanley Johnson SF/Arizona n/a n/a n/a n/a/n/a

Testing categories

The prospects present were tested for the following:

Lane Agility Time (seconds) - A measure of how quickly a player moves laterally around the key, it involves a player touching a series of pylons set up around the foul lane.

Shuttle Run (seconds) - A measure of how quickly a player runs and how well they control changing directions, it involves a player running east-west-east-west along a portion of the court.

Three-Quarter Court Sprint (seconds) - A straight sprint designed to measure top-end speed and acceleration, it involves a player simply running 75 feet.

Standing Vertical Leap (inches) - A measure of a player's ability to extend as high as possible while standing still, it can be a useful gauge of a player's capacity to protect the rim or contest a shot.

Max Vertical Leap (inches) - A more effective tool for evaluating basketball athleticism, this test allows a player to get a moving start to reach their maximum height.

Absences

Top-10 prospects Jahlil Okafor, Karl-Anthony Towns, Emmanuel Mudiay, Kristaps Porzingis and Mario Hezonja sat out the combine altogether. Their measurements will probably leak from individual team workouts but will be unofficial marks.

Still to come

The combine wraps on Saturday, with 5-on-5 sessions still taking place Friday. Check back early next week for an update on who hurt and helped their stock the most.

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