Mock draft 2026

[Joshyjosh31]

I don't think we can sit around here and hate on LaVine and DeRozan for not playing defense and then lust after another guard who can't play defense.

Fair point but I’ll assume he’ll give better effort then those two

 

[Tetsujin]

Brown plays negative defense

For better or worse, whenever I see Brown play I get Trae Young vibes. Amazing playmaker and offensive talent but his defense may be the precise opposite.

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996420628745011562

So the thing about AJ is that he’s got some of the best body control in a basketball player I’ve ever seen but he’s somehow got more shooting concerns than Caleb Wilson while not quite being the elite defensive prospect that Caleb is.

There’s a world where he hits and is 6’9” Shai but there’s also a world where you pick him and think in five years “we passed on (X) for this dude?!”

I still definitely have him top three but if I were picking three and had to chose between AJ and Caleb I might have trouble passing on a Caleb for him.

 

[QWERTYLICIOUS]

There’s a world where he hits and is 6’9” Shai but there’s also a world where you pick him and think in five years “we passed on (X) for this dude?!”

Seeing that Joshy loves Shai so much, do we really want to draft this kid, bring him to Sacramento, and hear Joshy go off on him on a nightly basis???

 

[Joshyjosh31]

Seeing that Joshy loves Shai so much, do we really want to draft this kid, bring him to Sacramento, and hear Joshy go off on him on a nightly basis???

Team AJ!

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996420628745011562

So the thing about AJ is that he’s got some of the best body control in a basketball player I’ve ever seen but he’s somehow got more shooting concerns than Caleb Wilson while not quite being the elite defensive prospect that Caleb is.

There’s a world where he hits and is 6’9” Shai but there’s also a world where you pick him and think in five years “we passed on (X) for this dude?!”

I still definitely have him top three but if I were picking three and had to chose between AJ and Caleb I might have trouble passing on a Caleb for him.

And if we pass on a 6’9 SGA for Wilson and he turns out to be just an elite defender and rim runner we’d kick ourselves even worse. AJ should score 20+ points even if his jumper doesn’t hit

 

[Tetsujin]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1996633189729894512