MASSIVE Mock Draft: All 30 picks and deep-dive discussions on AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson, Cam Boozer, plus some of our favorite value picks that await
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Who joins Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander to mock the 2026 NBA Draft?
There I am, Gary Parish. Welcome back to CBS Sports' Ion College Basketball Podcast, where we sometimes discuss camel fighting, dodo birds, and leaky black mat. Norlander is here with me. So is Adam Finkelstein. We're watching on YouTube. Honor Brandon Davey. Smash the like button if you haven't yet subscribed to the Ion College Basketball Podcast. podcast please also do that wherever you subscribe to pods like apple and spotify let's get into it with the 2026 nba draft now less than a week away we decided to conduct a mock draft with the three of us alternating picks fink is our guest so he got to pick first we're going to get to that in a second first fink let me ask you a question then norlander i want you to follow here's the question
How much of the noise circulating now, five days out from the draft, do we actually believe? I'll just run you through some stuff. Take it wherever you want to take it. Right now, A.J. DeBonsa remains the heavy favorite, like minus 450 in the betting markets to be the number one overall pick. Meantime, Darren Peterson seems to believe Washington will select him number one. He's not planning to do anything, reportedly. with anybody else other than the Washington Wizards. Meantime, there's a report that the Jazz, no matter who goes first, might take Cameron Boozer at number two, even though most mocks and the betting markets for sure have DeBonsa and Peterson first and second in some order. So there's a lot of stuff contradicting each other right now.
What do we believe? What do we not believe? How much of this is misinformation as opposed to valuable information?
I, so I think that the vast majority of, of what we've said for the last month has all proven to be accurate. If you guys remember, like that's Sunday night when the lottery happened and I was on HQ and the whole world was acting like the Bonsa was a foregone conclusion. And I said, Hey, that's not necessarily the case. He's the favorite. Um, but this is a franchise that is expected to do their due diligence on multiple prospects. And I think that's come to fruition. Now, having said that, I still think the Bonsa is the favorite. Um, Utah is a little complicated. What I don't buy is that they will pass on Darren Peterson because he's not working out for them. That's calling BS on that. Can I say that in this podcast?
You can say whatever you want. Well, almost whatever you want. Yeah, let's not go whatever you want. Not that I think Fink would say something that you're not allowed to say, but just there are words we try to keep off the podcast.
Fair, fair. I just, listen, I appreciate I can wear a sweatshirt and a hat on this show. So I'm just making sure.
Where did everything go wrong? We did a three-man mock with Fink and it just blew up after that.
Seeing what, and at some point, like at the end of this, I'd also, just as an aside, would really like to know who this Downey's person is. I've always wanted to ask you that. Okay. But what I will say is that, like, I don't think Utah is not going to pass on Darren Peterson because he didn't work out for them. They proved that last year when they took Ace Bailey. Everybody's talking about that. What they're not talking about is the Angels are the same front office that once traded the number one pick and the guy that everybody thought had the highest upside in Markel Fultz to get a player they believed in, Jason Tatum, who at the time was. was perceived as having a lesser ceiling. And there's a lot of people that are going to want to play revisionist history about that.
But that is the reality of what people thought then. They thought that Markel Fultz was the superior product, and they thought Jason Tatum was a lower ceiling type guy. The Angels thought differently. They moved accordingly. The Celtics won an NBA championship because of it. That's the facts. So I'm interested...
How believable is the pre-draft noise five days before the 2026 NBA Draft?
to see what they do at number two. And the other thing that I think is relevant is, again, they're pieces of information, but how you interpret them is important.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
Who joins Gary Parrish and Matt Norlander to mock the 2026 NBA Draft?
0:14–3:48
2
How believable is the pre-draft noise five days before the 2026 NBA Draft?
3:48–17:13
3
Who are the realistic candidates for picks 1–3: AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson or Cam Boozer?
17:13–48:01
4
Which prospects are projected to go in picks 4–10 and why (Wilson, Wagler, Acuff, Flemings, Brown)?
48:01–1:24:22
5
Who are the mid-first-round targets (picks 11–20) the panel expects to land and why?
1:24:22–1:50:04
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