With the G League season underway and the 2021 NCAA Tournament nearing, several NBA prospects have been shooting up draft boards.
Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham and USC’s Evan Mobley are projected to be selected first and second, respectively, in the 2021 NBA draft later this year, but the draft order becomes much more difficult to predict after the first two picks.
To rank the top players available, we analyzed five 2021 NBA mock drafts and big boards from around the internet – the latest revisions from For The Win, NBC Sports, Bleacher Report, Sports Illustrated and NBA Draft Room – and found each player’s average draft position.
Forty-four players appeared as first-round selections across the mock drafts we reviewed, down from 47 in the Consensus 1.0. If a player was left out of one of the mock drafts, he was assigned a value of 31 for each absence to determine his draft average. To give an approximate draft range, we’re also listing each player’s best and worst draft position across the five mock drafts, and indicating whether a player’s stock has risen or fallen since our last mock.
The draft order was set using each team’s current record, via Tankathon.
Here is our consensus mock draft 2.0, with all 30 picks in the first round:
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