Updated NBA mock draft: Projecting who lands at Nos. 1 through 30

Key Highlights

• 1 pick contenders -- Darryn Peterson, AJ Dybantsa and Cam Boozer -- all performing at impressively high levels in college, fueling closed-door conversations as teams continue putting together their boards. Caleb Wilson and Kingston Flemings have joined that trio to form what has become a soft consensus top five at this stage, but things are much harder to project from there.
• There's a real difference of opinion around the NBA surrounding the depth and quality of the draft at this point in the process, beginning in the middle part of the lottery and on.
• Considering the availability of major NIL money, coupled with what NBA teams view as a wide-open 2027 draft class, the expectation remains that a significant number of prospects will ultimately remain in college to improve their stock if they are not entrenched in the first round.
• Those financial incentives probably will thin out the 20-40 range quite a bit, leaving significant room for prospects to play their way into the first round over the next few months. This mock serves to project what things might look like if NBA teams drafted today.
• These projections are not a ranking of the top prospects -- for that, consult ESPN's Top 100.