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The most recent episode of the Thinking Basketball podcast, hosted by Ben Taylor and Cody Houdek, featured a fascinating thought exercise: what would a draft lottery look like if we put the past three drafts into a single prospect pool?
It was an interesting conversation that involves weighing the relative merits of players about whom we have varying levels of knowledge. The 2026 draft has yet to play a single regular season game, so they have to be ranked among players who have played one or two full seasons. In Bub Carrington’s case. “full seasons” is literal — he has yet to miss a game. All 82 both years.
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I’m engaging in the exercise myself because their conversation was interesting, and it went directions and included and ordered players in ways I didn’t agree with. This is not to say they’re wrong, we’re picking based on who from this group will have the best careers, and reasonable minds can reach different conclusions.
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For example, their top two was Dylan Harper and Caleb Wilson, which…I can’t get there. And I think both players are going to be really good. They Ajay Mitchell going tenth. I couldn’t get him in my top 15. Their full picks are below along with mine.
All that said, give their episode a listen — and then listen to some of their backlist and future episodes. It’s an engaging episode and a great show, and I learn a lot by listening to them.
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Taylor and Houdek ended up selecting a top 10 — they’d planned 14 but punted the last four — I’m going the full lottery plus one, just for the heck of it. My consideration list runs 28 players deep — four from the 2026 draft, 13 from 2025, and 11 from 2024.
My draft of the drafts (comparing the relative merits of each draft class) goes 2026, then 2025, then 2024. The YODA evaluations of this year’s draft had four players with scores consistent with being the top overall pick in nearly any draft. In 2025, it was one. In 2024, it was zero. The top overall pick in 2024 — Zaccharie…
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