When NBA commissioner Adam Silver took the stage Thursday, the first names he called were generational athlete Zion Williamson and pass-and-attack wizard Ja Morant. The draft, it seemed, was appropriately going chalk. Until it didn’t. The Duke Blue Devils became the second team in the modern draft era to produce three Top-10 picks, while the […]
A year after an NBA draft dominated by very large human beings, the draft class to be announced Thursday night should look a lot … shorter. Big men are obviously still alive and well in the NBA, but this class illustrates that the league now focuses on positional flexibility and finds itself firmly rooted in […]
Zion, Zion, Zion. During the NBA draft on Thursday night, you’ll be hearing a lot about Zion Williamson, the phenom from Duke. But there are other players! FiveThirtyEight’s CARMELO player projection system has a few surprises as to who we think is overrated and underrated in this draft class. In the video above, we break […]