On May 12th some lucky team will win the NBA Draft lottery, landing the no.1 overall pick in the draft and the opportunity to select the cream of the crop in this draft class. The problem is the 2024 NBA Draft has no cream. We’ve seen this before: The 2013 draft had no clear top player and mock drafts were all over the place with their predictions. I had the incomparable Alex Len mocked at no.1 that year. The Cavaliers ended up selecting one Anthony Bennett – and we all know how that turned out. In 2001 The Wizards selected high school enigma Kwame Brown with the first pick. After a lackluster ..read more

With the 2023/24 NBA regular season in the books it’s time for a final 2023 draft class rookie ranking. These rankings are not a re-draft but rather a ranking of how well these players played in year-1 of their careers – how much they contributed to their teams and overall how well they performed. A re-draft would have to wait another year or two and would take into account upside potential, not just performance. This 2023 rookie class has been everything we thought it would be and has more than lived up to the hype. For instance Victor Wembanyama came into the league with as much hype as any ..read more

The center position was once highly valued in the NBA. Then small-ball took over the league for a while and the center position became much less important. But in recent years we’ve seen the reemergence of the importance of the position, with Nikola Jokic winning his first championship and Joel Embiid winning an MVP. We probably won’t see a return to an era of teams throwing it into the post every time down the court but the center position is no longer an afterthought. In fact, it’s gaining in importance, as more and more high level centers are drafted into the league. For teams hoping to so ..read more

Fans of the NBA Draft are always looking ahead to next year’s draft and so the annual McDonald’s All American Game is much watch TV – a chance for many fans to get their first glimpse at the prospects who will likely dominant next year’s draft lottery. And this year is extra special thanks to an elite group of players who will transform the college basketball landscape next season and then transform the fortunes of NBA franchises. While the McDonald’s game is an awesome showcase NBA scouts are just as interested in the practices that take place in the days leading up to the game. This year so ..read more

Here’s a look at seven players from major conferences, who are well known by college basketball fans but who aren’t getting the NBA Draft attention they deserve. All seven are upperclassmen who are more NBA ready than most of the one and done, high upside but risky prospects. NBA teams will always draft for potential but we’ve seen a marked shift in recent years towards valuing the more solid and predictable outcome of the upperclassmen. In addition I’m listing three deep sleepers who realistically are probably not going to get drafted but who will likely get a chance to prove themselves in Su ..read more

At the cusp of March Madness, with Spring in the air and St. Patty’s Day around the corner, this latest big board sees a few prospects spring up the board as their game continues to blossom. The top of the board has only minor changes from Big Board 2.0, namely Reed Sheppard continuing his meteoric rise into the top 5 and Dalton Knecht moving up as well. But farther down the list there are new names and some big movers, both up and down. Antonio Reeves is the biggest riser, going from no.64 to no.32. – and he could continue to rise. Meanwhile fellow Kentucky Wildcat Aaron Bradshaw drops into ..read more

There have been plenty of lamentations about the apparent weakness of the 2024 NBA draft class but a quick look at the group of international prospects gives us a lot of reason for excitement. Overall it is fair to say that there is no elite Tier-1, franchise-altering talent in this class but there are plenty of exciting prospects emerging near the top of the draft and good overall depth. Some of the top prospects are playing college ball or with the G League Ignite but many of the top names in this class are from overseas – and so therefor many fans won’t be as familiar with them. It is like ..read more

OK, today I want to share some draft takes and talk about my 2024 NBA Draft crushes. You know that feeling – it happens every year; where you just can’t stop watching a certain player, or a couple of players, despite them not being mocked in the lottery or even the first round. So far this year I have three major draft crushes, with a handful more that would qualify as well. Read on Patreon < Please join my Patreon. You’ll get exclusive content every month and support me in making this site! Previous Patreon Articles: The Elite 25 Revisited – Top Prospects In High School Basketball 10 Elit ..read more

This move has been expected for a while but is now official: The NBA Draft will now be a two-night event, with the first round taking place one night and the second round taking place the following night. This year the first round will be held on Wednesday, June 26 and the second round will held on Thursday, June 27, in New York, NY. I’m a huge fan of this change. As someone who has always been a massive NBA draft fan (and now covers the draft) the one night event has always been a combination of head-spinning chaos and then an “over so soon” feeling. We wait all year for the draft, only to h ..read more

Four Months ago I put out my annual Elite 25 list of the top talents in high school basketball. Now, half-way through the basketball season here’s an updated Elite 25 list, with a few players making big moves, many players holding their ranking, and a few new names on the list. At the top of the list there are four elite prospects with NBA superstar potential. It’s nearly impossible to rank these four in order, and I think of them as all being about equal; a fab four. There are twelve class of 2024 recruits on this list, six class of 2025 recruits, six class of 2026 recruits and one class of 2 ..read more