Tennessee State guard/forward Aaron Nkrumah has been called up to this week’s NBA draft combine after impressing at the G League combine in Chicago over the weekend, a source tells Jonathan Givony of DraftExpress (Twitter link).
Nkrumah, who won the Ohio Valley Conference’s Player of the Year award as a senior in 2025/26, was a last-minute addition to the G League combine after not receiving an invitation to the Portsmouth Invitational Tournament, Givony notes.
A 6’6″ wing, Nkrumah averaged 17.7 points, 5.5 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.8 steals on .438/.351/.789 shooting in 33 games for the Tigers last season. Tennessee State advanced to the NCAA tournament as a 15-seed in March, losing in the first round to two-seed Iowa State after winning its conference tournament.
USC forward Jacob Cofie, Purdue big man Trey Kaufman-Renn, and George Washington forward/center Rafael Castro have been called up from the G League combine to the draft combine as well, Givony reports for DraftExpress (All Twitter links). Kaufman-Renn and Castro are both seniors who competed at the P.I.T., while Cofie is a sophomore early entrant.
Bryce Hopkins of St. John’s, whom Givony previously highlighted as a standout (via Twitter), has also been called up, the NBAGL announced (Twitter link). Only Nkrumah, Cofie, Kaufman-Renn, Castro and Hopkins received call-up invitations to the main combine.
Keba Keita (BYU), Noam Yaacov (Israel/Oostende) and Jaden Henley (Grand Canyon) are among the other prospects who performed well during G League combine scrimmages, according to Givony and his colleague Jon Chepkevich (All Twitter links here).