NBA Mock Draft With Nic Thomas || Naming The Build

Edition #102

Intro:

The NBA draft is June 26 through 27th and that means mock draft time!

Unfortunately, other than the basics, I’m not a huge college sports guy. So, I hit up Nic Thomas, an NBA Draft expert, to get to work on a mock draft.

If you’ve ever played 2K, you would probably know there are builds like Slasher, 3-Level Threat, etc. We decided to go ahead and do a mock draft, but instead of the scouting paragraph (which you can find on

The Nic Thomas Substack

), use the build names.

Let’s get it!

Mock Draft:

SMAYAN:

1. Alex Sarr.

   2-way diming interior threat

NIC:

2. Reed Sheppard

   Three-point creator

SMAYAN:

3. Nikola Topic

   Shoot-First Point

NIC:

4. Stephon Castle

   Playmaking Perimeter Lockdown

SMAYAN:

5. Matas Buzelis

   Inside Out Playmaker

NIC:

6. Zaccharie Risacher

   Three-and=D

7. Tidjane Salaun

8. Ron Holland

   Interior threat

9. Donovan Clingan

   Post presence

10. Zach Edey

    Lob threat

11. Cody Williams

    3-and-D

12. Kel'el Ware

    Interior threat

13. Juan Nunez

    Pure playmaker

14. Tristan Da Silva

15. Devin Carter

16. Robert Dillingham

    Shifty creator

17. Dalton Knecht

    Movement Shooter

18. Jared McCain

    Sharpshooting combo guard

19. Ryan Dunn

    Defensive playmaker

SMAYAN:

20. Isaiah Collier

21. Kyle Filipowski

    Defensive Anchor

22. Terrence Shannon Jr.

    2 Way 3PT Combo Guard

23. Ja’Kobe Walter

24. Grant Nelson

    Back-To-Basket Big

25. Tyler Smith

26. Justin Edwards

    2-Way Mid-Range Combo Guard

27. Kevin McCullar

28. Kwame Evans Jr.

    Inside-The-Arc Scorer

29. Carlton Carrington

    DIming 3PT Threat

30. Aday Mara

    Glass-Cleaning 3-Level Threat

CONCLUSION:

And that’s it for the mock draft. I hope you can get a good overview of how the person is just with a few words. Thanks to

Nic Thomas

for coming on to do a mock draft!