Gonzaga Bulldogs guard Jalen Suggs celebrates after making a game-winning three-point basket in the 2021 NCAA Final Four semifinal. (Photo by Andy Lyons/Getty Images)
Heading into the 2020-2021 NBA season there was a general consensus that this upcoming draft would have four or five players that were franchise changers.
Jalen Green, Jonathan Kuminga, Evan Mobley and Cade Cunningham were ESPN’s top four prospects in the class of 2020. All four of them were looked at as potential All-Stars. Then around the middle of the 2020-2021 college basketball season, Jalen Suggs, ESPN’s sixth-rated prospect in the class of 2020, started creeping up draft boards.