Summer Sleepers: Bangot Dak

2026 NBA Draft Articles | Matt | August 20, 2025 

 

Bangot Dak does not yet have a superpower, but he is well on his way to developing that. Dak’s unique intersection is his combination of on-ball experimentation with hustle, buoyed by good awareness and technical development. At recently turned 20, and … Read more

   

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Summer Sleepers: Malique Ewin

2026 NBA Draft Articles | Matt | August 8, 2025 

 

Last summer, I wrote two articles on scouting: Spotting the Stars and Cason Wallace’s Star Potential. The former was the result of a study of prospect tape for the NBA’s greatest players since the 1990s. The latter, stemming from my watching of prospec … Read more

   

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2025 Montverde Invitational Scouting Report

Amateur Basketball | Ryan Kaminski | July 30, 2025 

 

Little known fact: there are gyms full of future professional basketball players that NBA GMs and Front Offices Execs are not permitted to enter due to league rules, including games played at the high school level. That’s where Swish Theory’s in-person … Read more

   

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The Case for Egor Demin

2025 NBA Draft Articles | Avinash Chauhan | July 21, 2025 

 

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

   

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Swish Theory Summer Standouts: Names to know from the grassroots season so far

Amateur Basketball | Ahmed Jama | July 17, 2025 

 

2025 is a strange time to be involved in amateur basketball. With the landscape of college basketball undergoing massive wholesale transformations over the past few years, the pressure felt by college coaches and programs as a whole has never been grea … Read more

   

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Summer League Primer: A Comprehensive Kon Knueppel Scouting Report

2025 NBA Draft Articles | Ahmed 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

   

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Lessons from the 2025 NBA Draft Cycle

2025 NBA Draft Articles | Matt | 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

   

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Atlanta Hawks: The NBA’s Next Sneaky Contender

NBA Articles | Charlie Cummings | July 3, 2025 

 

This article was co-written by Ahmed Jama. We are in the middle of the greatest era of parity in NBA history. With the Oklahoma City Thunder crowned champions, there have been seven different Finals winners in seven years, a new record; only once have … Read more

   

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Finding the Fit: Tre Johnson, a Tale of Two Houstons, and Winning Ugly

2025 NBA Draft Articles | Ahmed 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

   

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Javon Small: Scouting and Contextualising Feel, Passing and Processing Speed

2025 NBA Draft Articles | Joe Hulbert | June 24, 2025 

 

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

   

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