The Atlanta Hawks selected Zaccharie Risacher with the No. 1 pick, the second straight year a player from France was the first player selected. Follow for live updates, pick tracker, trades, best ...

Sam Vecenie covers the NBA Draft, college basketball and the NBA for The Athletic. His podcast, the Game Theory Podcast, is ...

Assessing who has the best chance at hearing their name first on draft night.

A six-game schedule highlights Friday's NBA action, which begins at 7:30 p.m. ET, and has the last tip at 10 p.m. ET. Among ...

As the 2025-26 men’s college basketball season unfolds, the conversation around the 2026 NBA Draft has been around three elite freshman talents — Kansas' Darryn Peterson, BYU's AJ Dybantsa, and Duke ...

BYU's AJ Dybantsa came into the season with expectations of being the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA Draft, and he looked every bit like a top pick on Tuesday. Dybantsa dropped 28 points, nine rebounds ...

The 2026 Castrol Rising Stars were drafted to three teams with Dallas Mavericks rookie Cooper Flagg, Charlotte Hornets rookie Kon Knueppel and Philadelphia 76ers rookie VJ Edgecombe selected in the ...

The race for the No. 1 overall pick is heating up, freshmen surge, portal vets climb, trade-driven lottery order reshapes every pick.

In total, 21 first- and second-year NBA players and seven G League players make up the pool of competitors that will ...