Editor @swishtheory | NBA Draft 📊🎞️ | Former @thestepien
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I wrote a summary of how my prospect evaluation process has evolved every year. Always my favorite column to write; check it out!
Lessons from the Draft Cycle, 2026
In this annual column, Editor-in-Chief @DraftPow details how his prospect evaluation and philosophy have evolved over the years.
Read below!⤵️🔗⤵️
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In the first episode of the new 'Ice and Blitz,' Lukas and Linus discuss their breakout candidates for the 2026–27 NBA season with special guest Nile from the Mexico City Capitanes and the Double Bonus podcast.
Feedback and questions are welcome! 🙏🙏🙏
open.spotify.com/episode/2yN…
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Had a great time talking about our respective journeys to the G League with Varun! Only a few weeks until the season tips off! #estoescapitanes
With the G League draft over, it's a day that involves a lot of analytics and breakdown to find players. For Avi Chauhan, Ahmed Jama & Nile Goodwin, who are in the front office side of the Mexico City Capitanes, I got to interview them about it at NBA Summer League!
We really talked about what it's like for the Capitanes to build their rosters, the G League International Draft, clinching their first G League playoffs in franchise history last season and much more into the analytics side of basketball!
Avi Chauhan @100guaranteed
Ahmed Jama @slipthescreen
Nile Goodwin @NileHoops
Oh, and yeah, we played NBA 2K G League! A rematch of the NBA G League playoffs of the Mexico City Capitanes vs Rip City Remix!
youtu.be/FDFEnHD9Eqs
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In light of Cayden Daughtry's season opener I wanted to put into perspective just how ridiculous his summer was, and how he compares to a few recent 1-and-done guards.
Although its a long ways until the '28 draft, Daughtry is right on pace to be in the league sooner than later
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NBA overreactions so far !
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🧵Lots of rambling from me but Utah basically changed their whole P&R Coverage/Protection from last year and it was the perfect setting for Ty Jerome’s explosion in game one
A theme from last night's game was Utah guarding the two-man actions straight up by either switching or playing a deep-drop
On Ty Jerome's 45 Point-night! ! Q via @langwhitaker
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DMX Model All-Americans
@thebigwafe's model has predicted the meteoric rise of Yaxel Lendeborg, Tyler Tanner, Jaime Jaquez, and many other notable draft picks in past years.
Who are the best draft prospects not currently on consensus boards?
Read below! 👇
Wafe has a great hit record on these. Check out this year's edition before they rise up draft boards.
DMX Model All-Americans
@thebigwafe's model has predicted the meteoric rise of Yaxel Lendeborg, Tyler Tanner, Jaime Jaquez, and many other notable draft picks in past years.
Who are the best draft prospects not currently on consensus boards?
Read below! 👇
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Happy NBA RS Day! To celebrate, I refurbished 3 of my unreleased pre-draft player profiles and dropped them on my blog, explaining my view on each player entering draft night.
Words on Boozer’s dominance, Hannes’ underrated passing, and Swain’s overvalued creation.
Links 🧵 ⬇️
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One of the Most important basketball articles in recent memory nobody is doing it like Maurya please give this a read
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No tweet has affected my evaluation paradigms as much as this. So I wrote an article about:
1. My definition of cognition
2. Linking “OAS” theory to cognition
3. Why the cognition found in OAS drives outlier development
The debut of my R&D blog, Neural Nets, is live. Link ⬇️
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The college basketball season is only a few weeks away so here's my 2027 preseason board! With this being such a wide open class I'm expecting a healthy amount of early season movement, but for now feel free to ask any and all questions about prospects' placements!
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Scouting Advice on Evaluating NBA Draft Prospects
"Build your intuition for what a good prospect looks like...
Players fail in the NBA for lacking skills where there's an identical player who succeeded – you have to find what made somebody lose.
You are actually trying to cut off the bottom before you try to predict the top" – @NileHoops
𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐤𝐞𝐭𝐛𝐚𝐥𝐥 from @beyondtheRK
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My NBA breakout player picks for this season:
sbnation.com/nba/1131368/nba…
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The next part of my dream is to be a part of an NBA broadcast.
I’ve worked with CBC, TSN, the CEBL and the 905.
My new demo 👇🏼
