2026 NBA draft thread

[Smitty]

Looking through some mock draft sites, I'm seeing Wagler/Brown/Acuff as the Mav's pick at 6/7, so I guess we can debate these guys until the actual draft order is established in mid-May.

For grins, I also looked at who was dialed in to DAL for the 30th pick and there was a lot more variation here. Of course it's a chancier pick, but there was no consensus on what DAL should pick. A few of the names I found were:

Juke Harris - SG Wake
Ebuka Okorie - PG
Joshua Jefferson - PF Iowa State
Isaiah Evans - SF Duke
Tounde Yessoufou - SF Baylor

I also looked at a couple of mocks that went into the 2nd round, and found even more variability

Alex Condon - C Florida
Faye - PF Senegal
Dash Daniels - PG/SG Melbourne United
Malik Reneau - PF Miami

Isaiah Evans, Dailyan Swain, and Meleek Thomas have been the 3 names I’ve liked all year. Some have risen on draft boards, depending on where you look, but they’ve remained my top guys for the second FRP the Mavs have.

I haven’t watched a Stanford game, but for some reason today, I was flooded with highlights of Okorie on my X feed. I was impressed.