The NBA Draft is a crapshoot. What just happened in the NBA Finals was the latest proof of that, as the Toronto Raptors managed to win the championship without a single former lottery pick on the roster.

But what is a virtual certainty about the draft is that there will be former Culligan City of Palms Classic players in it. R.J. Barrett (Montverde Academy) is poised to lead the way, as it seems he and the New York Knicks are locked in on each other at pick No. 3 — unless the Knicks trade that pick, of course.

He and four others are in strong position to become lottery picks, at the very least, if not top 10 picks. Darius Garland from Brentwood Academy (Nashville, Tennessee) missed most of his lone season at Vanderbilt, but he’s a threat to be picked in the top five. Most mock drafts have Barrett’s college teammate Cam Reddish of Westtown (West Chester, Pennsylvania), former Orlando Christian Prep standout Nassir Little, and Barrett’s high school teammate Bruno Fernando bunched up in the middle of the lottery.

After that, it’s on to likely second-round prospects like Moses Brown from Archbishop Molloy (Briarwood, N.Y.), Chicago Simeon’s Talen Horton-Tucker, Louis King from Hudson Catholic (Jersey City, N.J.), and Jontay Porter of Father Tolton (Columbia, Missouri).

There’s an outside chance this year’s crop could equal the record dozen former Culligan City of Palms Classic players selected in 2018, but even 10 would represent one-fifth of the entire draft field — mighty impressive for a single weeklong annual tournament. One out of every seven players on NBA rosters last season appeared in the Culligan City of Palms Classic, and with 31 City of Palms players drafted into the league in the last three years, that presence is threatening to grow.

So, when the camera shows many of the players in the green room on Thursday, dressed in suits and ready for their NBA debuts, it won’t be the first time Culligan City of Palms Classic fans will have seen them.