The highly anticipated 2026 NBA draft finally commenced on Tuesday night, and it was a doozy.
The top of this year’s class is as hyped as any in recent memory, with three top-tier prospects in AJ Dybantsa, Darryn Peterson and Cam Boozer to choose from. The rest of the prospect pool was viewed as quite deep with plenty of high-end talent scattered throughout the lottery and into the rest of the first round. Combined with an eventful evening of NBA teams frantically doing business, it made for an entertaining first round.