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

   

 

I stopped posting draft boards in the 2024 draft cycle because I started to feel like the exercise was futile in a vacuum. “How do you rank and project players without the development context?” It’s a fundamental question of scouting for the NBA Draft … Read more

   

 

“My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as nonsensical, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) He must tr … Read more

   

NBA Draft ArticlesMatt | July 14, 2023 

 

With the first Swish Theory draft cycle in the books, it’s time to recap the cycle in this follow-up to my final piece with The Stepien. Here I’ll be looking at where my personal board diverged from what actually happened, trying to make sense of where … Read more

   

NBA Draft ArticlesMichael Neff | June 22, 2023 

 

Happy Draft Day, everyone. It’s time to reveal my personal rankings of the 2023 class. This is an absolutely fascinating class that I had a great time evaluating. Obviously, Victor Wembanyama is the headliner. But, teams will have plenty of intriguing … Read more

   

NBA Draft ArticlesTyler Wilson | May 3, 2023 

 

Evaluating the NBA draft is in many ways an impossible task. The league is constantly shifting beneath the surface, the tectonic plates of scheme and skill crushing themselves against one another to slowly create an entirely new landscape upon which th … Read more

   

NBA Draft ArticlesSwish Theory | November 18, 2022 

 

NBA Draft analysis is a major focus of many Swish Theory writers. But we aim to not evaluate players and their skills in a vacuum, but also assess attributes with an eye to how the NBA game is played and team-building works in practice. Our second roun … Read more