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An injury to potential top selection Joel Embiid of Cameroon is just one of many question marks facing NBA teams as they try to find future stars in Thursday's draft. A talent-laden 2014 draft class includes a number of promising international players, with 18-year-old Australian guard Dante Exum perhaps the most intriguing. Unlike Embiid, who played one year at the University of Kansas before declaring for the draft, Exum hasn't played at a US college, lessening the chance that the athletic and intelligent 6-foot, 6-inch (1.98 m) youngster will be taken with the first overall pick by the Cleveland Cavaliers. Embiid, who broke the Jayhawks' freshman record with 72 blocked shots and was the Big 12 conference's Defensive Player of the Year for Kansas, had been widely tipped as a likely top pick before he needed surgery last week that used two screws to stabilize a stress fracture in his right foot.
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