Draft

Duke’s Zion Williamson has declared for the 2019 NBA Draft Williamson, long believed to be the first-overall pick in June, made the announcement on Instagram on Monday. View this post on Instagram ?Thank you Duke?#thebrotherhood A post shared by Zion Williamson (@zionlw10) on Apr 15, 2019 at 2:43pm PDT The 6’7″, 285-pound freshman took college [...]

1. Phoenix Suns- DeAndre Ayton As a 7’1″ 260 pound behemoth with 6% body fat and a 40 inch vertical, Ayton has all of the physical gifts to be a generational NBA center. Add in the fact that he has a reliable jump shot, post game, developing turnaround jump shot, ability to dominate the glass [...]

Shortly after the 2018 NBA draft begins on June 21, Texas’ Mohamed Bamba will hear his named called and he’ll officially be a professional baller in line for a multimillion-dollar contract. All the while, as he walks up to the stage to greet commissioner Adam Silver, he’ll be thinking: “Why’d it have to take so [...]

With the way the current system is set up, if you are a team that is hovering in the middle of the NBA hierarchy and don’t have a transcendent star to become a contender, the best course of action is usually to blow up your roster and start to rebuild. In order to do that [...]

Sorry, Markelle Fultz. Apologies, Lonzo Ball. Sincere condolences, Jayson Tatum. Ditto Josh Jackson. Why are we offering apologies to the top-four picks from the 2017 NBA draft, the ostensible cream of an incredibly deep crop? Because according to one NBA scout, not one of them would have go in the top four of this year’s [...]

‘Tis the season for NBA draft mayhem, and the Philadelphia 76ers are authoring some top-notch bedlam. Armed with the third overall pick in this year’s draft, the Sixers have been linked from everyone to Josh Jackson, to Jayson Tatum, to Lonzo Ball, to De’Aaron Fox. And now, according to ESPN.com’s Ian Begley, they’re enamored with [...]

According to a report from former ESPN columnist, Grantland creator and current CEO of The Ringer Bill Simmmons, murmurs are bustling around the league that the Lakers and Suns are trying to work out a trade to swap the No. 2 and No. 4 pick in the draft. Simmons says that he heard that the [...]

LaVar Ball has no doubt his son, Lonzo, will trade in his UCLA jersey for Los Angeles Lakers garb at this June’s draft. Holster your “The lottery is rigged!” takes for another time. This has nothing to do with existing knowledge, and everything to do with LaVar’s commitment to treating his gut feelings as future realities. [...]

The legend of Philadelphia 76ers Ben Simmons is growing. Literally. Listed at 6’10”, the point forward is apparently even taller now. Best of all, this news comes via World B. Free. Yes, him. Here’s SB Nation’s Kyle Neubeck with the deets: World B. Free was recently honored by the Cleveland Cavaliers during a game against [...]

With his Dallas Mavericks eliminated from playoff contention , Mark Cuban is ready for the offseason to get here. So that his team can get a new point guard. As the always-candid NBA owner said, per Mavs.com’s Earl K. Sneed: [tweet https://twitter.com/EarlKSneed/status/849438777244356608] [tweet https://twitter.com/EarlKSneed/status/849438514479591425] The Mavericks already have some interesting names to monitor at point guard. [...]