The NBA playoffs are about to begin in just a few days, but for the 10 teams at the bottom of the standings, July 29th is the most important date left on the calendar. We’re just two and a half months away from the 2021 NBA Draft, and while there’s no debate over which player will go No. 1 overall this year – Oklahoma State’s Cade Cunningham – there has been plenty of movement on draft boards since the end of the college basketball season.
To rank the top players available, we analyzed six 2021 NBA mock drafts and big boards from around the internet – the latest revisions from ESPN, NBC Sports, Bleacher Report, NBA Draft Room, NBADraft.net and For The Win – and found each player’s average draft position.
A total of 43 players appeared in the first round across the mock drafts we reviewed, up from 38 in the Consensus 3.0. 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 4.0, covering all 30 picks in the first round: