NBA Mock Draft 5.0: The Wizards won the lottery! Here’s how every pick could play out now

With the Washington Wizards winning the NBA Draft Lottery, here’s how the draft could play out now that the order is set. Be sure to check out our 2026 NBA Draft Guide, which features full scouting reports on all 60 of these prospects, player comparisons, and multiple big boards.

1. Washington Wizards

AJ Dybantsa, 6-9, BYU freshman forward

The Wizards finally land their star. Dybantsa could become one of the NBA’s most unstoppable shot-creators. At 6-foot-9, he has a special blend of athletic tools the way he bends, shifts, and explodes with the ball in his hands. Dybantsa led the nation with 25.5 points per game while breaking Danny Ainge’s 48-year-old BYU freshman scoring record with a 43-point eruption. He gets to the rim at will, cooks in the midrange, draws fouls at a high rate, and displays point forward potential. In Washington, the pressure will be alleviated on him early in his career, now that he’s teammates with veteran point guard Trae Young and — assuming he doesn’t ask out — and All-Star-caliber big man in Anthony Davis.

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The Wizards could even be quite competitive early on in Dybantsa’s career, especially if their existing young players get even better: Alex Sarr already looks like an effective two-way big, while guards and wings like Kyshawn George, Tre Johnson, Will Riley, and Bilal Coulibaly have all shown flashes at one time or another. But none of them projects to be a superstar like Dybantsa, whose upside will be determined by whether he can become a knockdown 3-point shooter, as well as a more impactful defender to take full advantage of his physical tools. But the native of Brockton, Mass., has a tremendously high floor with his scoring skill alone that gives the Wizards a face of the franchise to build around and the ceiling to be a future MVP.

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Darryn Peterson, 6-6, Kansas freshman guard

The basketball gods finally smile on Utah after the franchise never moved up in the lottery. As much as Jazz owner and BYU alum/donor Ryan Smith might want to keep Dybantsa in Utah — and you can’t rule them out of trying to move up — it…

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Author : Kevin O'Connor

Publish date : 2026-05-10 20:06:00

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