I hate when people say that the draft is a crapshoot. They’re not entirely wrong. It’s impossible to be a complete developmental determinist given the confluence of factors related to both the drafting team and the mental makeup of the player. These ar … Read more

   

2025 NBA Draft ArticlesAhmed Jama | July 11, 2025 

 

With Summer League action kicking off today, we are officially in the portion of the basketball calendar more rife with hot takes and over-reactions than any other time of year. Although we are only a few months removed from watching these rookies play … Read more

   

2025 NBA Draft ArticlesMatt | July 8, 2025 

 

When you evaluate a basketball player, what do you see? Do you take in the highlights, note the schematic or technical execution or simply look for the skillsets you value? There are infinite ways to watch and evaluate, something I believe is underappr … Read more

   

2025 NBA Draft ArticlesAhmed Jama | June 25, 2025 

 

As we round the corner into the home stretch of draft coverage, set against the backdrop of a particularly dramatic NBA Finals, draftniks are mulling over whether the current crop of prospects they have spent the last calendar year evaluating could hol … Read more

   

 

When scouting NBA prospects, we’re often forced to give quick-fire grades or takes that may not capture the nuances of complex and multi-faceted skills. Take driving for example: there are a variety of microskills that make up the larger slashing skill … Read more

   

 

The Orlando Magic achieved their stated goal to find proven offensive talent in Desmond Bane, now what will the Orlando Magic do with 3 picks on draft night? The draft is one of three paths to building a team, and arguably the most important for teams … Read more

   

 

With the conference finals underway and the lottery concluded, NBA draft season is fully underway. To me what has become more compelling than the weekly mocks and trade scuttlebutt that marks draft season are the narratives crafted around virtually eve … Read more

   

 

#1: Ace Bailey Listed at 6’10”, Rutgers Scarlet Knights, Freshman, 18.9 on draft day Ace Bailey is a dynamo, a blistering midrange scorer where he shot 46% with only 27% of his makes assisted. Much of the damage was done on midrange pull-ups: he was 4 … Read more

   

 

See here for mock drafts one and two, and our most recent big board rankings. 1. Utah Jazz – Cooper Flagg, Duke If you can believe it, I came away from my most recent Duke watch even higher on Cooper Flagg. “There is an easy case to be made for Flagg e … Read more

   

 

I came into the 2025 NBA draft cycle with a fresh framework. My goal was to rate players across ten different categories, all of which relate to dimensions of basketball impact. I graded each player on a scale of non-NBA trait to Greatest of All Time f … Read more