2021 NBA Draft Big Board Rankings
A top-heavy draft is missing a second class but has a deep, gooey middle and plenty of depth. What players make up this year’s top 50 NBA draft prospects?
THE 2021 NBA DRAFT IS FINALLY HERE, or already here, depending on your perspective. We only just barely put a marathon war of attrition playoffs behind us and are already playing Olympic ball, but now some of those guys away at the Olympics will be drafted to an NBA team on Thursday night. The NBA cycle moves quickly and never really stops.
Over the past week, I’ve already written around 50,000 words of in-depth scouting profiles about my top 50 prospects, sorted into the five traditional basketball positions. Now it’s time to put them all onto one draft board, sorted as always into tier groups.
If you’re curious about the methodology to the madness, you can read how I process everything on last year’s Big Board. Today we won’t spend time on that or even profiling the players — that’s all done already, so if you want to read more about a player, check the article below corresponding to his listed position — but let’s look at how things stack up overall.
Here are the links to the deeper scouting profiles by position. Let’s draft!
