On Tuesday night, the Wizards selected AJ Dybantsa with the No. 1 pick in the 2026 NBA draft.
It’s an extremely exciting moment for Washington and the 19-year-old Dybantsa, who spent his one and only collegiate season with BYU. The Wizards have been stuck at the bottom of the NBA standings annually for several years running and haven’t been true contenders for anything other than the eighth seed in the conference in a decade. Dybantsa is an enormously talented scorer who averaged 25.5 points per game as a freshman and profiles as the type of elite wing who dominate in today’s nBA.