Jabari Smith Jr., Chet Holmgren and Paolo Banchero will likely be the first players off the board. Here is how the rest of the draft might fall.
The 2022 draft is days away and the big picture has started to come together, with teams finalizing their boards and trade talks beginning to get serious. And as of this morning, I think it’s fair to say that there’s more uncertainty around the league this late in the process than there’s been in some time. Teams certainly have some sense of what’s going to happen, but the Magic and Thunder in particular have played things close to the vest at the very top, leaving slivers of doubt here and there as to how this goes down.