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Who will be the 1st pick in the 2023 NBA Draft?

NBA mock draft 2023: An international super prospect tops a loaded class

Here’s our first 2023 NBA Draft board.

1 Victor Wembanyama France Center Born 2004
2 Scoot Henderson G League Ignite Guard Born 2004
3 Amen Thompson Overtime Elite Guard/Wing Born 2003
4 Ausar Thompson Overtime Elite Wing Born 2003
5 Kel'el Ware Oregon Center Freshman
6 Cam Whitmore Villanova Forward Freshman
7 Nick Smith Arkansas Guard Freshman
8 Dariq Whitehead Duke Guard Freshman
9 Jarace Walker Houston Forward Freshman
10 Anthony Black Arkansas Guard Freshman
11 Cason Wallace Kentucky Guard Freshman
12 Jordan Walsh Arkansas Wing Freshman
13 Dereck Lively Duke Center Freshman
14 Terquavion Smith NC State Guard Sophomore
15 Keyonte George Baylor Guard Freshman
16 Brandon Miller Alabama Wing Freshman
17 Jett Howard Michigan Wing/Forward Freshman
18 Dillon Mitchell Texas Forward Freshman
19 Leonard Miller G League Ignite Wing Born 2003
20 DaRon Holmes Dayton Forward Sophomore
21 Amari Bailey UCLA Guard Freshman
22 Gradey Dick Kansas Wing Freshman
23 Arthur Kaluma Creighton Wing Sophomore
24 Matthew Cleveland Florida Sate Wing Sophomore
25 Julian Strawther Gonzaga Wing Junior
26 Jaime Jaquez Jr. UCLA Forward Senior
27 Kris Murray Iowa Forward Junior
28 Daimion Collins Kentucky Forward/Center Sophomore
29 Jalen Wilson Kansas Wing/Forward Senior
30 Pete Nance North Carolina Forward Senior

Victor Wembanyama is a generational NBA prospect

Victor Wembanyama is one of the best NBA Draft prospects ever. He’s coming in 2023[/paste:font]
What are the qualities that make up a superstar basketball prospect? Let’s start with size and length, skill level and feel, athleticism and versatility. French wunderkind Victor Wembanyama checks all of these boxes and more.

Wembanyama is an 18-year-old who is already playing in the top French pro league. He’s listed at 7’2, 230 pounds, with a 7’9 wingspan — and that might be conservative. He profiles as an elite rim protector on defense and lob threat on offense who is also showing the ability to space the floor out to three-point range. Here’s one clip from that piece:



Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2022/6...n-big-board-victor-wembanyama-scoot-henderson

Victor Wembanyama is one of the best NBA Draft prospects ever. He’s coming in 2023

The 2023 NBA Draft will be all about Victor Wembanyama, the best prospect since LeBron.

Only four days separated Victor Wembanyama from being the No. 1 overall pick in the 2022 NBA Draft. The French super prospect was born Jan. 4, 2004, just missing the age cut-off for international eligibility. Now the 2022-23 NBA season is set to offer twin prizes: the championship for teams competing at the top of the league, and the opportunity to win the rights to the best prospect to hit the draft since LeBron James for teams at the bottom of the standings.

Watching Wembanyama roam the court feels like witnessing an alien sent to Earth with the ideal package of length, skills, and athleticism to play the sport. He is listed at 7’2, 230 pounds, with a 7’9 wingspan, and that feels conservative. He has exceptional mobility for his size, not just straight line speed and lateral quickness, but also a level of agility and flexibility that is startling to see for someone with his frame. He has flashed a serious amount of skill, too, regularly splashing three-pointers, throwing eye-popping passes, and finishing plays way above the rim on both ends. The last prospect this big, this fluid, and this comfortable with the ball in his hands might be a young Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, then known as Lew Alcindor, when he entered UCLA in the mid-1960s.

Entire article: https://www.sbnation.com/nba/2022/6...-scouting-report-video-stats-profile#comments
 
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Victor Wembanyama, projected No. 1 pick in the 2023 NBA draft, will match up against another star prospect, Scoot Henderson, in Nevada exhibitions, source says

Projected No. 1 pick Victor Wembanyama will travel to Las Vegas next month for a pair of highly anticipated games, matching up with projected No. 2 pick Scoot Henderson, a source told ESPN.

Metropolitans 92 from Paris will take on G League Ignite on Oct. 4 and Oct. 6 in a pair of exhibition games in Henderson, Nevada. The games are expected to be broadcasted on the ESPN family of networks, the source said.

The 18-year old Wembanyama, who recently measured 7-foot-4 barefoot with an 8-foot wingspan, has wowed NBA executives for the past three years with his exceptional combination of fluidity, perimeter skill, shot-blocking instincts and feel for the game, and has cemented himself as the likely No. 1 pick, barring a major surprise. He was named French LNB Pro A Best Young Player two years in a row and made his EuroLeague debut last season.

Entire article: https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id...coot-henderson-nevada-exhibitions-source-says
 
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Projected No. 1 pick Risacher to enter NBA draft

Projected No. 1 pick and current JL Bourg France player Zaccharie Risacher, 19, has submitted paperwork to make him eligible for the 2024 NBA draft.
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Projected No. 1 pick Zaccharie Risacher to enter NBA draft​

Zaccharie Risacher, the projected No. 1 pick, has submitted paperwork to the league office making him eligible for the 2024 NBA draft, he told ESPN on Monday.

"It's always been my dream to get to the best league in the world," Risacher told ESPN. "I've been putting the work in for this since I was a kid. JL Bourg has given me an incredible opportunity to showcase what I can do. It's been the perfect place to start my young career. I'm really grateful to have the opportunity to play for this organization."

Risacher, 19, is in the midst of a productive season in France, as his JL Bourg team is in third place in Pro A and reached the EuroCup Finals. He is averaging 10.4 points and 3.4 rebounds in 23 minutes per game, shooting 39% for 3.
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2024 NBA Draft: Official Draft Board, Prospect Profiles and more

The official home of NBA Draft 2024 presented by State Farm to be held on June 26-27. Draft Board, Prospect Profiles, Mock Drafts and more
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Consensus Mock Draft: Final update before 1st round begins​

All the speculation ends tonight when the 1st round of the 2024 NBA Draft presented by State Farm begins (8 ET, ESPN/ABC).

The Consensus Mock Draft is a compilation of the best mock drafts around the web. We bring them together to provide a solid estimate of how the Draft could play out (Last update: June 26, 1 a.m. ET):
  • There’s consensus at the top. With the Draft tipping Wednesday night (8 ET, ESPN/ABC), Zaccharie Risacher has firmed up his hold on the projected top spot, with fellow Frenchman Alex Sarr, Kentucky sharpshooter Reed Sheppard and Connecticut guard Stephon Castle rounding out a clear top 4.
  • Castle’s UConn teammate Donovan Clingan edges out G League Ignite forward Matas Buzelis in our final projections, though Buzelis is most common (five) at No. 5 to Detroit, with Clingan appearing three times at No. 5 and another three at No. 7. For what it’s worth, each slots twice in the 6 hole. Tight range there.
  • Defensive stalwarts Cody Williams (projected 7th, plus-three this round) and Tidjane Salaun (9th; plus-four) were the highest risers on the final board.
  • Robert Dillingham ended up dropping six slots in this final consensus, landing at a projected 13th pick, the lowest of his trajectory since we started tracking for this year’s event. From a high of 7th on June 19, at that.
  • Though Serbian prospect Nikola Topic has a partially torn ACL, he’s managed to keep afloat at No. 11, just ahead of Ron Holland II as our field believes he could be picked off as early as 7th.
  • Ja’Kobe Walter once again returns to bump Isaiah Collier for the final mock lottery slot, though he most commonly appears at No. 13 (4 times).
  • Ten players appear in the lottery on all 10 updated mocks we surveyed: Zaccharie Risacher, Alex Sarr, Reed Sheppard, Stephon Castle, Matas Buzelis, Donovan Clingan, Dalton Knecht, Cody Williams, Tidjane Salaun and Ron Holland II. Devin Carter just misses with nine, and Nikola Topic eight.
MOST COMMON PICKS

No. 1 (Hawks): Zaccharie Risacher (8)
No. 2 (Wizards): Alexandre Sarr (9)
No. 3 (Rockets): Reed Sheppard (9)
No. 4 (Spurs): Stephon Castle (7)
No. 5 (Pistons): Matas Buzelis (5)
No. 6 (Hornets): Stephon Castle, Donovan Clingan (3)
No. 7 (Trail Blazers): Cody Williams (5)
No. 8 (Spurs): Tidjane Salaun (5)
No. 9 (Grizzlies): Ron Holland II (3)
No. 10 (Jazz): Dalton Knecht, Nikola Topic (3)
No. 11 (Bulls): Devin Carter, Robert Dillingham, Ron Holland II (3)
No. 12 (Thunder): Carlton Carrington, Robert Dillingham, Nikola Topic (2)
No. 13 (Kings): Ja’Kobe Walter (4)
No. 14 (Trail Blazers): Tristan da Silva (3)

Most common (above): Pick at which the player is most commonly projected, with the number of mock drafts in parentheses. For example, Zaccharie Risacher is projected to go first in eight of 10 updated mock drafts listed below.

Top 14 (below): To calculate the consensus, we award 14 points for every mock draft in which the player went first overall, 13 for second, continuing to one point for the final lottery pick. The player with the highest point total represents the top overall selection, which is as follows:
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2024 NBA mock draft: Lottery teams leaning overseas prospects over college in final CBS Sports projections

The final first-round mock ahead of Wednesday night's NBA Draft.
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2024 NBA mock draft: Lottery teams leaning overseas prospects over college in final CBS Sports projections​

The final first-round mock ahead of Wednesday night's NBA Draft.​

The 2024 NBA Draft tips off Wednesday at 8:00 p.m. ET, bringing an offseason full of drama and speculation to a close. Though some of college basketball's biggest names from the 2023-24 season, including Zach Edey, Dalton Knect and Reed Sheppard, litter CBS Sports' consensus first-round projections, teams are high on overseas prospects in what's been called a "weak" class. Four European players are projected to go in the lottery, including two Frenchmen in the top three.

CBS reviewed 11 mock drafts to create its own "consensus" draft. It noted which players were mocked the most at each specific spot in the first round: "There is a mutual consensus on who will be taken with the first few picks, but after that, it's a free-for-all."
 
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Alec Sarr didn't want to work out for the Hawks because the team believes he is a center and would like to deploy him as such.
Alec Sarr does not want to play center.

The 7-1 player with nearly 8 foot wingspan does not want to play center.
 
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ORD_Buckeye said:
Vince Young is having somebody read that to him and then going, "damn, bro!"

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After reading that I felt the need to search out the dude talking. I've been around some "special" people in my life and he doesn't come off as a box of rocks. I'm wondering if he has dyslexia or some other undiagnosed issue that would cause the poor score. Either way shame on any school that he's ever gone to for letting him pass through if he truly can't read.
 
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exhawg said:
After reading that I felt the need to search out the dude talking. I've been around some "special" people in my life and he doesn't come off as a box of rocks. I'm wondering if he has dyslexia or some other undiagnosed issue that would cause the poor score. Either way shame on any school that he's ever gone to for letting him pass through if he truly can't read.
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its odd than an NFL guy is reporting this.....makes me wonder if its actually true
 
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exhawg said:
After reading that I felt the need to search out the dude talking. I've been around some "special" people in my life and he doesn't come off as a box of rocks. I'm wondering if he has dyslexia or some other undiagnosed issue that would cause the poor score. Either way shame on any school that he's ever gone to for letting him pass through if he truly can't read.
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That might be it. Like Harbaugh, probably had some old-school coach father (or just a father obsessed with his son's athletic ability) who never in a million years would allow his son to be diagnosed with something "mental." And the schools and university just passed him along because he was a star athlete.

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NFBuck said:
Bronny gets drafted by the Lakers, lol. Must be nice having your dad forcing his team to draft you when nobody else in their right mind would.
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Listen, just like in the hiring process for the new coach I am confident LeBron was not involved (sarcasm font).

Honestly, he probably wasn’t but the organization is going to do wveythey can to keep him there and happy.
 
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NFBuck said:
Bronny gets drafted by the Lakers, lol. Must be nice having your dad forcing his team to draft you when nobody else in their right mind would.
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Family matters: Lakers pick Bronny to join dad

A "very emotional" LeBron James led family and friends in a champagne toast, a source told ESPN, after son Bronny James was picked by the Lakers in the NBA draft.
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"Beyond blessed," Bronny James wrote in an Instagram post.

The James family received the news while gathered together at an intimate dinner party in New York, sources told ESPN. LeBron's mother, Gloria, and wife Savannah's parents attended, along with some of Bronny's closest friends and confidants.

After the Lakers delivered their decision, LeBron led the group in a champagne toast to commemorate the occasion, a source told ESPN, and was "very emotional" considering the weight of the moment.
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His father has until Saturday to opt into the final year of his Lakers contract -- worth $51.4 million for next season -- or become an unrestricted free agent. The Lakers are focused on retaining LeBron James for his 22nd season and beyond and are willing to offer the 39-year-old the maximum three-year, $162 million deal he is eligible for to keep him with the franchise, sources told ESPN.
 
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